Japan · 43.06°N 141.35°E · monthly climate normals, judged against the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers)
The best time to visit Sapporo is June, when mean temperatures sit around 16 °C61 °F.
Rain falls year-round, 64–152 mm2.5–6.0 in a month, so there is no dry season to aim for; April is the driest month and August the wettest. August is the hottest month at 22 °C72 °F and January the coldest at -5 °C23 °F; the mean stays below freezing from December to March.
Figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at 43.06, 141.35 — a climate guide, not a forecast.
Pick the weather you like and every month is judged against it — temperature above the month names, rain below.
Good time to go for a Warm holiday: June.
Open Sapporo on the interactive map ↗ the same verdict for every place on Earth, any month
Reading the chart. Gold is good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour names the reason it doesn't — the temperature bar can be too cold or too hot, the rain bar too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar is a half that fits while the other half fails; a gold month name means both fit.
What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the monthly mean, judged against the preset's band (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Sapporo's own year rather than raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month the preset doesn't allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season — 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate whose wettest month is at least three times its driest — so every monsoon month is rainy season too; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.
| Month | Rain | Mean | Season | Warm verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1044.1 | -522 | rainy | too cold |
| February | 803.1 | -424 | showers | too cold |
| March | 722.8 | -130 | showers | too cold |
| April | 642.5 | 643 | showers | too cold |
| May | 722.8 | 1253 | showers | too cold |
| June | 722.8 | 1661 | showers | good |
| July | 1044.1 | 2068 | rainy | too rainy |
| August | 1526.0 | 2271 | rainy | too rainy |
| September | 1365.4 | 1864 | rainy | too rainy |
| October | 1204.7 | 1152 | rainy | too cold |
| November | 1204.7 | 439 | rainy | too cold |
| December | 1204.7 | -228 | rainy | too cold |
| Looking for | Rule | Months that fit |
|---|---|---|
| Warm | mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers | June |
| Tropical | mean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, anything but the monsoon | |
| Beach | mean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, dry or showers | |
| Cool | mean 0–14 °C32–57 °F, anything but the monsoon | April to May and October to November |
| Snow | mean below 0 °C32 °F, any rain | December to March |
Not a distinct one. Rain falls year-round, 64–152 mm2.5–6.0 in a month, so there is no dry season to aim for; April is the driest month and August the wettest.
August is the hottest month at 22 °C72 °F and January the coldest at -5 °C23 °F; the mean stays below freezing from December to March. Annual rainfall totals about 1,216 mm48 in.
The nearest destinations that do fit the Warm preset in the months Sapporo doesn't:
The interactive map colours the whole world by how it fits your picks in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.