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Matsumoto weather by month

Matsumoto runs from about 2°C in January to 25°C in August, with May the wettest month at 225 mm.

warmest month

August

25°C

coolest month

January

2°C

wettest month

May

225 mm

worst air month

July

13 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Matsumoto
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January2°C61 mm232 h5
February2°C132 mm208 h9
March4°C181 mm249 h10
April13°C115 mm263 h12
May16°C225 mm280 h11
June20°C207 mm297 h10
July25°C178 mm278 h13
August25°C125 mm320 h12
September24°C32 mm292 h8
October16°C155 mm235 h7
November9°C124 mm235 h7
December4°C48 mm236 h5

About 3,125 hours of sun a year. Roughly 160 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.