Average Snowfall for Japan in January

The tables below give monthly averages for snowfall during January 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 January

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
31	Abashiri	41.3	105
31	Asahikawa	68.5	174
30	Hakodate	46.5	118
31	Obihiro	23.2	59
31	Sapporo	68.1	173
25	Tomakomai	15.4	39
31	Wakkanai	68.1	173

Tōhoku

January snowfall averages

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
31	Aomori	88.6	225
18	Fukushima	29.1	74
27	Morioka	33.5	85
13	Sendai	8.3	21

Kantō

Average snow for January

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
1	Chiba	1.2	3
3	Maebashi	3.1	8
24	Nikko	44.9	114
2	Tokyo	2.0	5
4	Utsunomiya	3.9	10
2	Yokohama	2.0	5

Chūbu

Average total snowfall in January

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
10	Aikawa, Sado Island	18.9	48
5	Gifu	7.5	19
19	Kanazawa	46.9	119
23	Nagano	38.6	98
2	Nagoya	2.0	5
20	Niigata	35.8	91
0	Shizuoka	0.0	0

Kansai

Average total snowfall in January

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
1	Kobe	0.4	1
3	Kyoto	2.0	5
1	Nara	0.8	2
0	Osaka	0.4	1
2	Tsu	0.8	2
1	Wakayama	0.4	1

Chūgoku

January snowfall averages

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
3	Hiroshima	2.0	5
11	Matsue	14.6	37
1	Okayama	0.4	1
16	Tottori	34.6	88
3	Yamaguchi	3.9	10

Shikoku

Amount of snowfall in January

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
0	Kochi	0.4	1
1	Matsuyama	0.4	1
1	Takamatsu	0.4	1
1	Tokushima	1.2	3

Kyūshū

Average January snowfall

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
2	Fukuoka	0.8	2
1	Kagoshima	1.2	3
1	Kumamoto	0.4	1
0	Miyazaki	0.0	0
1	Nagasaki	0.8	2
1	Oita	0.4	1

Okinawa

Snowfall in January

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
0	Ishigaki Island	0.0	0
0	Miyakojima	0.0	0
0	Naha	0.0	0