Shikoku
When to go?
Mean 4 °C, 10 rain days in the month (57 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 5 °C, 10 rain days in the month (74 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 9 °C, 12 rain days in the month (125 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 13 °C, 12 rain days in the month (151 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 18 °C, 12 rain days in the month (196 mm).
The least rainy of the months with the right temperature.
Mean 22 °C, 16 rain days in the month (303 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain on 5 days in 10
- Torrential rain19 mm per rain day
Mean 26 °C, 16 rain days in the month (276 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 5 days in 10
Mean 26 °C, 16 rain days in the month (226 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 5 days in 10
Mean 23 °C, 15 rain days in the month (244 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain on 5 days in 10
Mean 18 °C, 11 rain days in the month (174 mm).
The least rainy of the months with the right temperature.
Mean 12 °C, 9 rain days in the month (84 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 7 °C, 9 rain days in the month (60 mm).
Nothing against it.
No ideal month: the best months are May, October, the least rainy with the right temperature. Nothing against November–April either. Avoid June–September (often rainy, at times hot and torrential rain).
Climate zones
- Freezing, dry
- Freezing
- Freezing, wet
- Cold, dry
- Cold
- Cold, wet
- Mild, dry
- Mild
- Mild, wet
- Hot, arid
- Hot
- Hot, wet
- Torrid, arid
- Torrid
- Torrid, wet
Mean maximum and minimum temperature and mean monthly precipitation of the season (the mean of its three months), ERA5-Land 1996–2025, at about 9 km resolution: colours are in levels (the same as the city scale) and smaller details are not real.
What is the climate like?
Area mean indicative, over the whole territory
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
Mean daylight hours over the whole territory.
Snow on the ground
Mean snow depth on the ground (cm)
Mean snow depth on the ground (cm)
Spatial mean over the whole area, weighted by area (cosine of the latitude), not by population: indicative only, since the climate varies a lot within an area (coasts, plains, mountains). Look at the cities for the weather you will find.