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Hiroshima in August

okbusy · worth considering · the warmest month of the year, the sunniest month of the year

The year in Hiroshima

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  1. Hiroshima in January: ok
  2. Hiroshima in February: ok
  3. Hiroshima in March: ok
  4. Hiroshima in April: sweet spot
  5. Hiroshima in May: sweet spot, busy
  6. Hiroshima in June: sweet spot
  7. Hiroshima in July: ok
  8. Hiroshima in August: ok, busy
  9. Hiroshima in September: sweet spot
  10. Hiroshima in October: sweet spot
  11. Hiroshima in November: sweet spot
  12. Hiroshima in December: ok
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
August at Hiroshima is 31°C by day and 24°C at night, with 7 rainy days and about 10 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high31°C
Nightly low24°C
Feels like, afternoon36°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more7 · 198 mm
Humidity78%
Sunshine10.5 h/day
Daylight13.4 h/day
Days over 35°C2
Crowds65 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the centre, by the Peace Park, 43 km from the airport (HIJ): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: busy. Busiest in August; quietest in January, June and December.

Public holidays in August

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Hiroshima in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 7 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 78%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and B plugs at 100 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Yen. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Japan: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Hiroshima: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

August elsewhere

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