Kawagoe Temperature by Month
Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan has an average annual maximum temperature of 21°C (70°F), ranging from 10°C (50°F) in January to 32°C (90°F) in August. Below you'll find a full monthly breakdown and a comparison with cities worldwide.
Kawagoe Monthly Temperatures
The weather in Kawagoe experiences significant differences between warm and cold seasons, with big shifts in temperature. At night, minimum temperatures range from 24°C (75°F) in August to 0°C (32°F) in January.
The chart below illustrates the average maximum day and minimum night temperatures in Kawagoe by month:
The coldest point of the day usually falls between 4 AM and 6 AM, with temperatures peaking around 3 PM. August, the city's warmest month, gets 185 hours of sunshine.
The chart below shows the average temperature throughout the year:
Temperature: Kawagoe vs Japan
The map below shows the annual temperature across Japan. You can also select individual months if you want to compare a specific time of year.
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Kawagoe vs World: Temperature Compared
Kawagoe's average annual maximum temperature is 21°C (70°F). To put that in context, here's how it compares to a few well-known destinations:
Athens, Greece sits at 23°C (73°F) on average, with hot dry summers and mild winters characteristic of the Mediterranean.
On the cooler end, Oslo, Norway averages just 10°C (50°F) annually, with pleasant summers but long, cold winters.
San Francisco, USA averages 19°C (66°F) annually, but with little seasonal variation — summers are often cool and foggy, winters mild.
Adelaide, Australia averages 21°C (70°F) a year, with warm summers, mild winters, and relatively low rainfall year-round.
Climate temperature data is typically calculated as a 30-year average. This smooths out year-to-year variability and gives a more reliable picture of what a place is actually like, rather than what happened in any single unusual year.
The readings come from a range of sources — land-based weather stations, ocean buoys, ships, and satellites. That data is collected by weather services around the world, then pooled, quality-checked, and averaged to produce the climate records you see here.
Seasonal temperature shifts influence more than just how warm it feels — they also drive changes in rainfall, cloud cover, and wind patterns throughout the year.
Warmer air holds more moisture, which tends to mean heavier or more frequent rain during the warmer months. When temperatures drop in winter, any precipitation that does fall is more likely to come as snow or sleet, though in Kawagoe this rarely lasts long on the ground.
For more on Kawagoe's weather — including monthly rainfall, sunshine hours, and humidity — visit our Kawagoe climate page.
