Weekly note
Ishigaki
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The numbers

Daily high31°C
Nightly low27°C
Feels like, afternoon37°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more9 · 238 mm
Humidity82%
Sunshine10.7 h/day
Daylight13.0 h/day
Beach and sea22 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 30 °C, warm good
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 Ishigaki town, by the port, 11 km from the airport (ISG): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: busy. Busiest in April, July and August; quietest in January and February.

Public holidays in August

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Ishigaki in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 9 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 82%; 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 Ishigaki: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

August elsewhere

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