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Okinawa in December

okbusy · worth considering

The year in Okinawa

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  1. Okinawa in January: good
  2. Okinawa in February: sweet spot
  3. Okinawa in March: good
  4. Okinawa in April: sweet spot
  5. Okinawa in May: ok
  6. Okinawa in June: ok
  7. Okinawa in July: good, busy
  8. Okinawa in August: good
  9. Okinawa in September: good
  10. Okinawa in October: sweet spot
  11. Okinawa in November: good
  12. Okinawa in December: ok, busy
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  • Busy
December at Okinawa is 21°C by day and 18°C at night, with 8 rainy days and about 6 hours of sun a day. Holidays: GB: Christmas Day; GB: New Year's Day; JP: New Year's Day.

The numbers

Daily high21°C
Nightly low18°C
Feels like, afternoon20°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more8 · 153 mm
Humidity70%
Sunshine6.2 h/day
Daylight10.5 h/day
Beach and sea5 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 24 °C, warm
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 Naha: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

December: about usual. Busiest in July.

Okinawa in pictures

What to pack

  • A packable rain jacket for the 8 or so rainy days.

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

December elsewhere

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