Sendai
Elevation 57 m38.27° N, 140.87° E
When to go?
Mean 2 °C, 12 rain days in the month (50 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 2 °C, 10 rain days in the month (39 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 6 °C, 12 rain days in the month (77 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 11 °C, 11 rain days in the month (97 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 16 °C, 12 rain days in the month (110 mm).
The least rainy of the months with the right temperature.
Mean 20 °C, 14 rain days in the month (133 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 24 °C, 17 rain days in the month (184 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain on 5 days in 10
Mean 25 °C, 16 rain days in the month (177 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 5 days in 10
Mean 22 °C, 14 rain days in the month (174 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 16 °C, 11 rain days in the month (147 mm).
The least rainy of the months with the right temperature.
Mean 10 °C, 10 rain days in the month (64 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 4 °C, 12 rain days in the month (53 mm).
Nothing against it.
No ideal month: the best months are May, October, the least rainy with the right temperature. Nothing against November–April, June, September either. Avoid July–August (often rainy, at times hot).
What is the climate like?
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Daylight and sky: sunrise, sunset and cloud cover
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
Times on the 15th of each month, in local time: daylight saving where and when it applies, standard time in the other months.
Snow on the ground
Mean snow depth on the ground (cm)
Mean snow depth on the ground (cm)
Effect of climate change
Today's climate (1996–2025) compared with 1961–1990:
In short
Year by year
Temperature of each year
Against 1961–1990 the mean temperature of today (1996–2025) has changed by +0.9 °C; in the last ten years by +1.6 °C. Warmest year: 2024 (+2.5 °C), coldest: 1984 (−1.4 °C).
March and February warmed the most (+1.5 and +1.3 °C), August the least (+0.3 °C). The warm season (above the annual mean of then, 12 °C) begins 3 days earlier and ends 5 days later.
Warming stripes: after an idea by Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), showyourstripes.info, CC BY 4.0.
Rain of each year (% against 1961–1990)
more rain than in 1961–1990less rain
Rain in a year: no clear trend, dry and wet years alternate as before.
Snow, then and now
≈no clear change of winter snow compared with 1961–1990