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Hakodate weather by month

Hakodate runs from about -2°C in December to 24°C in August, with August the wettest month at 160 mm.

warmest month

August

24°C

coolest month

December

-2°C

wettest month

August

160 mm

worst air month

March

14 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Hakodate
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January-1°C107 mm196 h4
February-2°C49 mm202 h9
March0°C74 mm251 h14
April9°C45 mm288 h10
May13°C110 mm280 h10
June17°C75 mm322 h10
July22°C153 mm282 h9
August24°C160 mm257 h7
September20°C44 mm281 h6
October14°C133 mm239 h6
November6°C69 mm212 h9
December-2°C36 mm224 h5

About 3,034 hours of sun a year. Roughly 106 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-27. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.