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Otaru weather

Hokkaido · 115,333 inhabitants · Saturday, November 7 · updated 04:26

Light snow
0°
Light snow
Feels like -7°C
Wind
39 km/h
Gusts
85 km/h
Humidity
74 %
Pressure
1006 hPa
Clouds
100 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:18 Set 16:21 Day 10 h 3 min UV 1 · Low

Otaru 14-day forecast

Trend
Night
Light rain
Light rain
2°0°
Feels like -6°
Wind ↑ W 61 km/h
Gusts 85 km/h
Humidity 78 %
💧 4.5 mm
Morning
Light snow
Light snow
1°-0°
Feels like -8°
Wind ↑ W 63 km/h
Gusts 87 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 5.8 mm
Afternoon
Light rain
Light rain
2°0°
Feels like -7°
Wind ↑ W 66 km/h
Gusts 86 km/h
Humidity 88 %
💧 6.6 mm
Evening
Light rain
Light rain
2°1°
Feels like -6°
Wind ↑ WNW 65 km/h
Gusts 76 km/h
Humidity 85 %
💧 4.9 mm
09:00
Light snow
-0°
3.9mm
W 40
12:00
Light rain
2°
1.8mm
W 66
15:00
Light snow
0°
4.8mm
W 43
18:00
Light rain
2°
1.6mm
WNW 65
21:00
Light snow
1°
3.3mm
WNW 41
00:00
Light rain
3°
1.8mm
WNW 56
03:00
Light snow
1°
2.8mm
WNW 37
06:00
Drizzle
3°
0.4mm
WNW 55

Rain radar around Otaru

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Otaru, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

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Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Air you breathe in Otaru: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.55µg/m³
PM106µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Otaru forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▼ This week runs -1.9° cooler than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
-5°0°5°10°15°TodayThuFriSatSunMonTue5°-2°Wed 4 Nov: max 8° · min 5° · normal 6.6°Thu 5 Nov: max 12° · min 9° · normal 6.4°Fri 6 Nov: max 13° · min 0° · normal 6.1°Sat 7 Nov: max 3° · min -0° · normal 5.9°Sun 8 Nov: max 3° · min -0° · normal 5.6°Mon 9 Nov: max 3° · min -3° · normal 5.4°Tue 10 Nov: max 5° · min -2° · normal 5.1°

Hourly detail

SatSunMonTueWedThuFriSat-4°4°11°9°-3°08
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Moon over Otaru

Waning crescent
6 % illuminated · 27.3 days
Rise 03:59 Set 14:55
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon
Wed 11/11 3%
Thu 12/11 8%
Fri 13/11 15%
Sat 14/11 23%
Sun 15/11 33%
Mon 16/11 43%
Tue 17/11 54% First quarter
Wed 18/11 64%
Thu 19/11 74%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Tokyo); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Otaru

Tide station used: Otaru

Tide times in Otaru
🌊 Sea surface
13.2 °C
satellite, 7/11
Sea state
Rough
waves 5.5 m
Period
11 s
Swell
0.0 m
FriFri 06/11
High tide 14:15 0.3 m
Low tide 20:16 0.3 m
TodaySat 07/11
High tide 01:30 0.3 m
Low tide 08:15 0.2 m
High tide 15:26 0.3 m
Low tide 20:49 0.3 m
TomorrowSun 08/11
High tide 01:49 0.3 m
Low tide 08:52 0.1 m
High tide 16:25 0.4 m
Low tide 21:16 0.3 m
MonMon 09/11
High tide 02:06 0.4 m
Low tide 09:27 0.1 m
High tide 17:15 0.4 m
Low tide 21:30 0.3 m

Heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Otaru

Curious about the weather in Otaru on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Otaru weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Otaru, Hokkaido: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “light snow”, it is 0 °C (feels like -7 °C) and the wind blows at 39 km/h.

Expected range today: -0 °C to 3 °C and around 20 mm of rain. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms, plus the tide times for Otaru.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1124 weather stations