Average Sunshine in Japan for January

The tables below give January averages for the total number of sunny days and hours of sunshine at cities and towns throughout Japan. The count of days is for those with sunshine during at least 40 percent of the time between sunrise and sunset.

You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: Hokkaidō, Tōhoku, Kantō, Chūbu, Kansai, Chūgoku Shikoku, Kyūshū and Okinawa.

The month's totals are long-term historical averages of weather data collected from 1981 to 2010.

Hokkaidō

Total January sunshine
Place Days Hours
Abashiri 15 114
Asahikawa 9 74
Hakodate 13 103
Obihiro 24 183
Sapporo 12 93
Tomakomai 20 141
Wakkanai 5 46

Tōhoku

Average amount of sun in January
Place Days Hours
Aomori 5 51
Fukushima 17 132
Iwaki 24 190
Morioka 15 117
Sendai 20 148

Kantō

Average January sun
Place Days Hours
Chiba 22 185
Hachijo-jima Island 9 86
Maebashi 26 210
Nikko 22 170
Tokyo 23 188
Utsunomiya 25 205
Yokohama 23 186

Chūbu

Number of sunny hours and days in January on average
Place Days Hours
Aikawa, Sado Island 4 50
Gifu 21 160
Hamamatsu 24 197
Kanazawa 6 64
Nagano 16 127
Nagoya 21 170
Niigata 5 57
Shizuoka 24 202

Kansai

Average total sunshine in January
Place Days Hours
Himeji 20 149
Kobe 19 146
Kyoto 16 123
Nara 14 117
Osaka 18 143
Tsu 21 163
Wakayama 17 135

Chūgoku

Amount of sun in January
Place Days Hours
Fukuyama 19 142
Hiroshima 18 137
Kure 19 139
Matsue 7 68
Okayama 20 151
Tottori 7 70
Yamaguchi 15 119

Shikoku

January sunshine averages
Place Days Hours
Kochi 23 188
Matsuyama 15 126
Takamatsu 19 141
Tokushima 20 158

Kyūshū

Total January sunshine
Place Days Hours
Fukuoka 11 102
Kagoshima 15 133
Kumamoto 16 133
Miyazaki 22 183
Nagasaki 12 103
Oita 19 150
Wadomari, Okinoerabu Island 9 85
Yakushima Island Airport 8 74

Okinawa

Average January sunshine
Place Days Hours
Iriomote Island 8 75
Ishigaki Island 9 86
Kume 8 78
Miyakojima 10 86
Nago 11 95
Naha 10 94
Yonaguni Island 5 56
Reference

Japan Meteorological Agency. Historical weather data retrieval.

Japan Sunshine
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