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Sapporo weather

Hokkaido · 1,973,832 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 03:03

Air: Good

6°

Rain

Feels like 5°C

Wind

8 km/h

Gusts

14 km/h

Humidity

92 %

Pressure

1017 hPa

Clouds

66 %

Storm

Rise 06:06 Set 16:30 Day 10 h 24 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Rain

6°

Feels like 5°

Wind ↑ S 11 km/h

Gusts 31 km/h

Humidity 92 %

💧 10.2 mm

Morning

Mainly clear

10°6°

Feels like 10°

Wind ↑ SSE 10 km/h

Gusts 23 km/h

Humidity 86 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

13°

Feels like 13°

Wind ↑ SSW 13 km/h

Gusts 25 km/h

Humidity 75 %

Evening

Mainly clear

9°8°

Feels like 8°

Wind ↑ SSW 8 km/h

Humidity 92 %

09:00

10°

SSE 10

12:00

13°

SSW 13

15:00

13°

SSE 10

18:00

8°

SSW 8

21:00

9°

S 7

00:00

7°

SW 8

03:00

7°

S 4

06:00

7°

SW 8

Sapporo 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)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Sapporo climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 24 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −9 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 27 °C.

Nights typically freeze from December to March, the coldest averaging −9 °C in January.

From 15 h 22 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 59 min in late December.

Swimmers find the warmest sea in August (22 °C) and the coolest in March (2 °C).

Forecast highs for the coming week average 9 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (15 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	−3 °C	−9 °C	70 mm	3 °C
Feb	−2 °C	−8 °C	62 mm	2 °C
Mar	3 °C	−4 °C	69 mm	2 °C
Apr	10 °C	2 °C	74 mm	3 °C
May	15 °C	8 °C	92 mm	8 °C
Jun	19 °C	12 °C	87 mm	14 °C
Jul	23 °C	17 °C	135 mm	19 °C
Aug	24 °C	19 °C	185 mm	22 °C
Sep	21 °C	15 °C	152 mm	21 °C
Oct	15 °C	8 °C	100 mm	16 °C
Nov	7 °C	2 °C	97 mm	10 °C
Dec	0 °C	−5 °C	92 mm	5 °C
Whole year	11 °C	5 °C	1,220 mm	10 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 43.07° N, 141.35° 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 Sapporo: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.58µg/m³

PM1012µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Sapporo

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Sapporo, 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 Sapporo yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Sapporo

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 14:23 Set 05:50

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.

Sea and tides near Sapporo

Tide station used: Sapporo

🌊 Sea surface

14.7 °C

satellite, 30/10

Sea state

Slight

waves 1.6 m

Period

8 s

Swell

1.4 m

ThuThu 29/10

Low tide 11:36 0.2 m

High tide 19:24 0.4 m

Low tide 22:59 0.4 m

TodayFri 30/10

High tide 04:12 0.5 m

Low tide 12:29 0.2 m

High tide 20:43 0.4 m

Low tide 23:06 0.4 m

TomorrowSat 31/10

High tide 04:47 0.5 m

Low tide 13:31 0.2 m

SunSun 01/11

High tide 05:25 0.5 m

Low tide 14:48 0.2 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest. · more tide detail on TidesAtlas

Look up a past day in Sapporo

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

Sapporo weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sapporo, Hokkaido: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain”, it is 6 °C (feels like 5 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.

Expected range today: 7 °C to 13 °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, plus the tide times for Sapporo.

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