Ideal weather days in Sapporo
The best time to visit Sapporo for warm, dry weather is June to September, with 18 to 22 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Sapporo's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June to September.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Sapporo, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold208
- Too wet112
- Too windy23
- Too hot4
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), Sapporo averaged 110 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) are most common in July and August (up to 19 a month, 56 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May, September and October (up to 13 a month, 53 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 208 a year, mostly in November to April. Another 112 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in August and October to March. A day can fail more than one test.
Sapporo weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 °C 32 °F | 15 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 1 °C 33 °F | 16 | 1 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 5 °C 41 °F | 13 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 13 °C 55 °F | 9 | 5 | 3 of 30 |
| May | 19 °C 66 °F | 4 | 3 | 16 of 31 |
| June | 25 °C 76 °F | 7 | 2 | 22 of 30 |
| July | 29 °C 83 °F | 8 | 1 | 21 of 31 |
| August | 29 °C 84 °F | 11 | 2 | 18 of 31 |
| September | 25 °C 76 °F | 9 | 1 | 20 of 30 |
| October | 18 °C 64 °F | 12 | 1 | 10 of 31 |
| November | 11 °C 52 °F | 16 | 3 | 1 of 30 |
| December | 0 °C 32 °F | 11 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 129 | 23 | 110 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. Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month. This station doesn't report cloud cover reliably, so clear days aren’t counted here.
Year by year
- 2023 99 warm, dry days
- 2024 117 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Sapporo for good weather?
The best time to visit Sapporo for warm, dry weather is June to September, with 18 to 22 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in July and August (up to 19 a month, 56 a year). Counted from measured days at Sapporo station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Sapporo?
On average 129 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was February (16 rain days), the driest May (4).
How warm does Sapporo get?
The median daily high ranged from 0 °C (32 °F) in January to 29 °C (84 °F) in August.
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Source: Sapporo weather station (47412099999), 2 km from the centre of Sapporo, 26 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.