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Saitama · 1,324,854 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 04:00

Partly cloudy
10°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 10°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
5 km/h
Humidity
89 %
Pressure
1021 hPa
Clouds
56 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:01 Set 16:48 Day 10 h 47 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
15°10°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ WSW 5 km/h
Humidity 54 %
Morning
Overcast
Overcast
15°12°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ WNW 6 km/h
Gusts 19 km/h
Humidity 56 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
20°17°
Feels like 20°
Wind ↑ NNW 3 km/h
Gusts 11 km/h
Humidity 34 %
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
20°14°
Feels like 20°
Wind ↑ NW 4 km/h
Gusts 13 km/h
Humidity 37 %
09:00
Overcast
12°
WNW 2
12:00
Partly cloudy
20°
ESE 3
15:00
Partly cloudy
17°
NNW 1
18:00
Overcast
20°
ENE 4
21:00
Clear sky
14°
NW 3
00:00
Clear sky
17°
NNW 7
03:00
Clear sky
12°
NW 4
06:00
Clear sky
16°
N 7

Saitama forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
8°12°16°20°24°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed15°13°Thu 29 Oct: max 15° · min 10° · normal 14.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 20° · min 12° · normal 14.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 22° · min 12° · normal 14.1°Sun 1 Nov: max 20° · min 13° · normal 14.1°Mon 2 Nov: max 18° · min 10° · normal 13.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 21° · min 13° · normal 13.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 15° · min 13° · normal 13.5°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri9°17°24°22°10°08
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Saitama climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 0 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 24 °C.

Typical highs of 30 °C or more are reached in August only, at 31 °C.

From 14 h 35 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 43 min in late December.

A normal year brings roughly 1,470 mm of rain — more than 74% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 19 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (21 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan9 °C0 °C64 mm
Feb10 °C2 °C64 mm
Mar13 °C5 °C105 mm
Apr18 °C10 °C113 mm
May23 °C15 °C135 mm
Jun26 °C19 °C167 mm
Jul30 °C23 °C166 mm
Aug31 °C25 °C130 mm
Sep27 °C21 °C191 mm
Oct21 °C15 °C201 mm
Nov17 °C8 °C85 mm
Dec12 °C3 °C56 mm
Whole year20 °C12 °C1,470 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 35.91° N, 139.66° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Saitama: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.55µg/m³
PM105µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Saitama

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Saitama yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Saitama

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 14:58 Set 05:30
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon
Wed 11/11 3%

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

Look up a past day in Saitama

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

Saitama weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Saitama, Saitama: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 10 °C (feels like 10 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 12 °C to 20 °C and a dry sky. 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.

Saitama weather data for developers

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations