Average Snowfall for Japan in February

The tables below give monthly averages for snowfall during February at cities and towns in Japan. Each place has a total for the amount of snow it normally gets and for the number of days with snow on the ground.

You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: Hokkaidō, Tōhoku, Kantō, Chūbu, Kansai, Chūgoku Shikoku, Kyūshū and Okinawa.

These snowfall statistics are long-term historical averages of weather data collected from 1981 to 2010.

Hokkaidō

Average total snowfall in February
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
28 Abashiri 31.9 81
28 Asahikawa 51.6 131
27 Hakodate 35.4 90
28 Obihiro 14.6 37
28 Sapporo 57.9 147
25 Tomakomai 15.4 39
28 Wakkanai 56.3 143

Tōhoku

February snowfall averages
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
28 Aomori 69.3 176
14 Fukushima 22.4 57
25 Morioka 29.1 74
11 Sendai 9.1 23

Kantō

Average snow for February
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
1 Chiba 1.6 4
4 Maebashi 3.5 9
25 Nikko 48.8 124
2 Tokyo 2.0 5
4 Utsunomiya 3.9 10
2 Yokohama 2.4 6

Chūbu

Average total snowfall in February
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
9 Aikawa, Sado Island 17.3 44
5 Gifu 6.7 17
17 Kanazawa 36.6 93
20 Nagano 32.3 82
3 Nagoya 3.1 8
18 Niigata 28.7 73
0 Shizuoka 0.0 0

Kansai

Average total snowfall in February
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
1 Kobe 0.4 1
4 Kyoto 3.1 8
2 Nara 1.6 4
1 Osaka 0.4 1
2 Tsu 1.2 3
1 Wakayama 0.0 0

Chūgoku

February snowfall averages
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
2 Hiroshima 1.6 4
9 Matsue 11.0 28
1 Okayama 0.4 1
13 Tottori 28.3 72
2 Yamaguchi 2.8 7

Shikoku

Amount of snowfall in February
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
0 Kochi 0.0 0
1 Matsuyama 0.4 1
1 Takamatsu 0.4 1
1 Tokushima 0.4 1

Kyūshū

Average February snowfall
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
1 Fukuoka 0.4 1
1 Kagoshima 0.4 1
1 Kumamoto 0.0 0
0 Miyazaki 0.0 0
1 Nagasaki 0.4 1
0 Oita 0.0 0

Okinawa

Snowfall in February
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
0 Ishigaki Island 0.0 0
0 Miyakojima 0.0 0
0 Naha 0.0 0
Reference

Japan Meteorological Agency. Historical weather data retrieval.

Japan Snowfall
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