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Kobe: aerial view of city at daytime

Kobe in December

ok · worth considering

The year in Kobe

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

The numbers

Daily high11°C
Nightly low5°C
Feels like, afternoon8°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more5 · 47 mm
Humidity72%
Sunshine7.9 h/day
Daylight9.9 h/day
Crowds68 / 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 Sannomiya, the centre, 7 km from the airport (UKB): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

December: about usual. Busiest in November; quietest in February.

Kobe in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 5°C.

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

December elsewhere

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