Weekly note

Okayama in August

avoid · not the best time to go · the warmest month of the year, the sunniest month of the year

The year in Okayama

Tap a month for its page

  1. Okayama in January: ok
  2. Okayama in February: ok
  3. Okayama in March: good
  4. Okayama in April: good, busy
  5. Okayama in May: good
  6. Okayama in June: sweet spot
  7. Okayama in July: ok
  8. Okayama in August: avoid
  9. Okayama in September: sweet spot
  10. Okayama in October: good, busy
  11. Okayama in November: ok, busy
  12. Okayama in December: ok
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
August is ruled out at Okayama: extreme heat: 11 days over 35C.

The numbers

Daily high33°C
Nightly low25°C
Feels like, afternoon38°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more6 · 162 mm
Humidity73%
Sunshine10.5 h/day
Daylight13.4 h/day
Days over 35°C11
Crowds92 / 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 (Kōraku-en), 13 km from the airport (OKJ): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: about usual. Busiest in April, October and November; quietest in January and June.

Public holidays in August

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

Okayama in pictures

What to pack

  • Light, loose clothes: daily highs average 33°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 6 or so rainy days.
  • Plan the middle of the day indoors: 11 days a month pass 35°C.
  • Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.

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

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