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Miyagi · 1,096,704 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 01:58

Partly cloudy
11°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 11°C
Wind
7 km/h
Gusts
7 km/h
Humidity
81 %
Pressure
1024 hPa
Clouds
58 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:00 Set 16:40 Day 10 h 40 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
10°
Feels like 10°
Wind ↑ WNW 5 km/h
Humidity 86 %
Morning
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
12°11°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ WSW 6 km/h
Humidity 80 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
17°15°
Feels like 17°
Wind ↑ S 5 km/h
Humidity 53 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
14°12°
Feels like 14°
Wind ↑ WSW 7 km/h
Humidity 71 %
💧 0.2 mm
09:00
Partly cloudy
12°
W 2
12:00
Partly cloudy
17°
SE 5
15:00
Partly cloudy
15°
S 2
18:00
Partly cloudy
14°
0.1mm
WSW 7
21:00
Mainly clear
12°
0.1mm
W 5
00:00
Partly cloudy
12°
W 7
03:00
Clear sky
10°
WNW 7
06:00
Rain showers
12°
0.8mm
WNW 4

Sendai 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)
4°8°12°16°20°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed13°9°Thu 29 Oct: max 13° · min 10° · normal 11.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 17° · min 10° · normal 11.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 18° · min 8° · normal 10.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 14° · min 8° · normal 10.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 13° · min 9° · normal 10.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 13° · min 6° · normal 10.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 13° · min 9° · normal 10.1°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri5°12°19°18°6°010
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Sendai climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −1 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 23 °C.

Nights typically freeze in January and February, the coldest averaging −1 °C in January.

From 14 h 50 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 30 min in late December.

A normal year brings roughly 1,410 mm of rain — more than 72% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (18 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan4 °C−1 °C71 mm
Feb5 °C−1 °C57 mm
Mar8 °C2 °C94 mm
Apr14 °C6 °C102 mm
May18 °C12 °C111 mm
Jun21 °C16 °C140 mm
Jul25 °C20 °C193 mm
Aug27 °C22 °C175 mm
Sep23 °C18 °C180 mm
Oct18 °C12 °C150 mm
Nov13 °C6 °C70 mm
Dec7 °C1 °C66 mm
Whole year15 °C9 °C1,410 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 38.27° N, 140.87° 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 Sendai: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.55µg/m³
PM107µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Sendai

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

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

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

Moon over Sendai

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 14:44 Set 05:33
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 Sendai

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

Sendai weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sendai, Miyagi: 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 11 °C (feels like 11 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 10 °C to 17 °C and around 1 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.

Sendai weather data for developers

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