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Hakone weather by month

Hakone runs from about 7°C in January to 28°C in August, with June the wettest month at 342 mm.

warmest month

August

28°C

coolest month

January

7°C

wettest month

June

342 mm

worst air month

February

18 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Hakone
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January7°C55 mm242 h15
February8°C176 mm176 h18
March9°C264 mm235 h16
April16°C177 mm227 h15
May18°C280 mm252 h14
June22°C342 mm250 h12
July27°C96 mm308 h10
August28°C239 mm318 h14
September26°C74 mm276 h12
October20°C196 mm214 h13
November14°C190 mm199 h16
December8°C5 mm265 h14

About 2,962 hours of sun a year. Roughly 207 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 2026-05-24. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.