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HOKKAIDO
Average monthly
25/77 maximum temperature
°C/F
16/61 15/61 Average monthly
11/52
minimum temperature
5/40
1/33 Freezing point
-2/28
-11/12
6 6 5 3
hrs hrs hrs hrs
60 78 114 102 Average daily Sapporo
mm mm mm mm hours of
month Apr Jul Oct Jan sunshine
Average monthly
precipitation
NORTHERN HONSHU
28/82
°C/F 21/70 20/69
16/61
12/54
6/43
5/41
-1/30 Snow melting in Daisetsu-zan National Park,
6 6 5 2 Hokkaido
hrs hrs hrs hrs
101 181 159 194
mm mm mm mm
Sendai Climate Zones
month Apr Jul Oct Jan
Hokkaido: cool, temperate,
Niigata rainy conditions, with long,
cold winters and short, warm
summers; year-round precipi-
tation, though notably drier
than the rest of Japan.
Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu: warm,
Sea of Japan temperate, rainy conditions.
Tem peratures vary with latitude:
(East Sea) win ters from cold to mild, summers
from warm to hot; year-round
precipitation, heaviest in summer/
fall on Pacific coast, in summer/
winter on Japan Sea coast.
Tokyo
Okinawa: subtropical. Hot, humid
summers and warm winters;
heavy rainfall year-round peaking
Nagoya in summer.
Kyoto
Kobe
Osaka
Hiroshima
Kitakyushu CENTRAL AND
WESTERN HONSHU
Fukuoka
°C/F 30/86
Pacific 22/72 22/72
Ocean 19/67 13/55
9/48 9/48
0/32
6 5 5 6
hrs hrs hrs hrs
Kagoshima
138 171 129 44
mm mm mm mm
month Apr Jul Oct Jan
Cherry blossoms in Central Honshu
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