Average Sunshine in Japan for September

The tables below give September averages for the total number of sunny days and hours of sunshine at cities and towns throughout Japan. The count of days is for those with sunshine during at least 40 percent of the time between sunrise and sunset.

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

The month's totals are long-term historical averages of weather data collected from 1981 to 2010.

Hokkaidō

Total September sunshine
Place Days Hours
Abashiri 17 165
Asahikawa 15 142
Hakodate 16 158
Obihiro 14 143
Sapporo 17 161
Tomakomai 16 153
Wakkanai 18 177

Tōhoku

Average amount of sun in September
Place Days Hours
Aomori 16 158
Fukushima 12 114
Iwaki 14 140
Morioka 13 124
Sendai 12 121

Kantō

Average September sun
Place Days Hours
Chiba 13 128
Hachijo-jima Island 14 134
Maebashi 13 126
Nikko 10 100
Tokyo 12 118
Utsunomiya 11 112
Yokohama 13 131

Chūbu

Number of sunny hours and days in September on average
Place Days Hours
Aikawa, Sado Island 16 152
Gifu 16 158
Hamamatsu 16 161
Kanazawa 15 144
Nagano 15 142
Nagoya 15 151
Niigata 16 151
Shizuoka 15 149

Kansai

Average total sunshine in September
Place Days Hours
Himeji 16 157
Kobe 16 153
Kyoto 15 137
Nara 16 150
Osaka 16 157
Tsu 16 156
Wakayama 18 170

Chūgoku

Amount of sun in September
Place Days Hours
Fukuyama 17 166
Hiroshima 17 165
Kure 17 164
Matsue 15 143
Okayama 16 157
Tottori 14 140
Yamaguchi 16 158

Shikoku

September sunshine averages
Place Days Hours
Kochi 16 162
Matsuyama 17 165
Takamatsu 16 160
Tokushima 17 160

Kyūshū

Total September sunshine
Place Days Hours
Fukuoka 17 163
Kagoshima 18 177
Kumamoto 18 176
Miyazaki 16 156
Nagasaki 18 173
Oita 15 154
Wadomari, Okinoerabu Island 22 214
Yakushima Island Airport 15 145

Okinawa

Average September sunshine
Place Days Hours
Iriomote Island 21 199
Ishigaki Island 21 194
Kume 22 204
Miyakojima 21 185
Nago 21 196
Naha 20 189
Yonaguni Island 20 183
Reference

Japan Meteorological Agency. Historical weather data retrieval.

Japan Sunshine
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