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Kanazawa in August

ok · worth considering · the warmest month of the year, the driest month of the year, the sunniest month of the year

The year in Kanazawa

Tap a month for its page

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

The numbers

Daily high31°C
Nightly low24°C
Feels like, afternoon35°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more9 · 228 mm
Humidity78%
Sunshine10.3 h/day
Daylight13.5 h/day
Days over 35°C1
Crowds100 / 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 (Kenroku-en), 29 km from the airport (KMQ): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: quiet. Busiest in November and December; quietest in January, February, August and September.

Public holidays in August

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

Kanazawa 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 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 Kanazawa: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

August elsewhere

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