Ideal weather days in Osaka
The best time to visit Osaka for warm, dry weather is May and October, with 21 to 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Osaka's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May and October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Osaka, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold130
- Too wet83
- Too hot56
- Too windy0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Osaka averaged 128 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Japan, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July and September (up to 10 a month, 34 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April to May and October to November (up to 18 a month, 83 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 130 a year, mostly in December to March. Another 83 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March to June and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Osaka weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10 °C 50 °F | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 10 °C 50 °F | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 of 28 |
| March | 14 °C 57 °F | 10 | 0 | 8 | 8 of 31 |
| April | 21 °C 70 °F | 10 | 0 | 7 | 17 of 30 |
| May | 25 °C 76 °F | 10 | 0 | 8 | 21 of 31 |
| June | 28 °C 82 °F | 11 | 0 | 4 | 18 of 30 |
| July | 34 °C 93 °F | 7 | 0 | 6 | 5 of 31 |
| August | 35 °C 94 °F | 9 | 0 | 4 | 4 of 31 |
| September | 33 °C 91 °F | 7 | 0 | 3 | 17 of 30 |
| October | 25 °C 76 °F | 8 | 0 | 6 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 18 °C 64 °F | 5 | 0 | 7 | 13 of 30 |
| December | 12 °C 54 °F | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 of 31 |
| Year | 91 | 0 | 70 | 128 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 140 warm, dry days
- 2024 126 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Osaka for good weather?
The best time to visit Osaka for warm, dry weather is May and October, with 21 to 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July and September (up to 10 a month, 34 a year). Counted from measured days at Osaka station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Osaka?
On average 91 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was June (11 rain days), the driest December (3).
How many sunny days does Osaka get a year?
About 70 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in March (8).
How warm does Osaka get?
The median daily high ranged from 10 °C (50 °F) in January to 35 °C (94 °F) in August.
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Source: Osaka weather station (47772099999), 2 km from the centre of Osaka, 83 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.