Discover the best time of year, based on historical climate, temperature, and precipitation.
The best time to visit Yokohama is April, May, November, when the weather, flight prices, and crowds align. — some variation climate
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| Score | 27 | 26 | 34 | 62 | 71 | 58 | 53 | 55 | 59 | 62 | 63 | 40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate | Cold | Cold | Cold | Cool & rainy | Humid | Rainy | Hot & rainy | Hot & rainy | Rainy | Rainy | Mild | Cold |
| Temperature | 1–9°C | 2–10°C | 6–14°C | 10–18°C | 15–22°C | 19–25°C | 23–29°C | 25–30°C | 21–27°C | 15–21°C | 10–17°C | 4–12°C |
| Feels like | -4–5°C | -3–6°C | 1–11°C | 7–16°C | 14–22°C | 19–27°C | 26–33°C | 28–34°C | 23–29°C | 13–21°C | 6–15°C | 0–8°C |
| Precipitation | 60mm 6 days | 62mm 8 days | 146mm 12 days | 145mm 11 days | 144mm 11 days | 210mm 14 days | 190mm 16 days | 130mm 15 days | 212mm 17 days | 195mm 13 days | 100mm 9 days | 61mm 6 days |
| Sunshine | 7.7h ☀︎ 77% | 7.8h ☀︎ 71% | 8.2h ☀︎ 68% | 8.2h ☀︎ 63% | 8.2h ☀︎ 58% | 6.5h ☀︎ 45% | 7.7h ☀︎ 54% | 10.0h ☀︎ 74% | 6.8h ☀︎ 55% | 7.0h ☀︎ 62% | 7.3h ☀︎ 70% | 7.4h ☀︎ 76% |
| Wind | N · 26 km/h | N · 28 km/h | N · 29 km/h | E · 29 km/h | S · 27 km/h | S · 24 km/h | S · 24 km/h | S · 24 km/h | NE · 24 km/h | N · 25 km/h | N · 24 km/h | N · 24 km/h |
| Humidity (%) | 64% | 64% | 70% | 73% | 77% | 81% | 83% | 81% | 82% | 77% | 74% | 67% |
| Day length | 10.1h | 10.9h | 12.0h | 13.1h | 14.0h | 14.5h | 14.3h | 13.5h | 12.4h | 11.3h | 10.3h | 9.8h |
| Tourist Crowds | Low season | Low season | High season | Shoulder season | Shoulder season | Low season | Shoulder season | High season | Shoulder season | High season | Shoulder season | High season |
Yokohama's Chinatown hosts one of Japan's most vibrant Lunar New Year celebrations with lion dances and parades. Expect…
An incredibly popular annual event where thousands of Pikachu characters 'march' and perform throughout Minato Mirai. Ex…
While not a single festival, Yokohama's parks like Sankeien Garden and Yamashita Park offer beautiful cherry blossom vie…
This festival celebrates the opening of Yokohama Port with various events, including a large fireworks display over the…
A vibrant festival celebrating Guan Yu, the deity enshrined at Kanteibyo Temple, with parades and lion dances. Expect wa…
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Inspired by traditional German markets, this event at Akarenga (Red Brick Warehouse) offers festive food, drinks, and cr…
A summer event featuring a spectacular fireworks display over Yokohama Bay, along with parades and street performances.…
Yokohama reaches its absolute peak crowd in December beneath biting coastal gusts, while May delivers the year's balmiest weather and breeziest promenades with barely a queue in sight.
Ever since Yokohama swung open its harbor gates to foreign clippers in the mid-nineteenth century, it has functioned as Tokyo Bay's cosmopolitan porch—a maritime metropolis of wide brick wharves, salty air, and grand open skies that contrast sharply with the tight concrete canyons of Tokyo just to the north. People come here to stroll waterside boardwalks, trace sea winds past Victorian-era brick warehouses, and lose an afternoon to the steam of dim sum in Yokohama Chinatown. Yet travellers chronically mistime their arrival. The city fills to bursting in midwinter for holiday spectacle, enduring numbing harbor drafts, while the most radiant window of the entire year slips past in late spring with quiet promenades and empty park benches.
If you want to understand what makes Yokohama distinct from Tokyo, stand on the open promenade along Tokyo Bay when the afternoon sun warms the stone without scalding it. But April can still bring a biting sea chill and damp spells that chase you under awning covers. May, by contrast, is an outright triumph. It delivers the finest weather on the calendar. The winter gales across Naka ward settle into gentle salt breezes, days are genuinely warm enough for rolled-up sleeves, and the oppressive humidity of summer remains weeks away. Better still, tourist volumes inexplicably dip to their yearly lull just as conditions turn sublime. This is the month to walk everywhere. Wander from the glassy waterfront towers of Nishi Ward south through the leafy streets into Minami Ward.
Summer in Yokohama arrives wrapped in moisture. June inaugurates the rainy season with heavy downpours that soak the piers and gray out the skyline. Even so, the waterfront rallies for the Yokohama Port Opening Festival (Kaikō-sai), when harbor fireworks crackle through warm, damp skies and crowds pack the seawalls despite the unpredictable rains. By July and August, the rain gives way to thick, relentless heat. The apparent temperature climbs past 30 degrees, and the sea air turns dense with coastal humidity. Waterfront promenading becomes an ordeal under the midday glare, though the city counters the mugginess with high-octane spectacle. July brings the Yokohama Sparkling Twilight, showering the bay with evening fireworks, while August witnesses the surreal mania of the Pikachu Outbreak!, flooding the promenades of Minato Mirai with yellow costumed characters and cheering family crowds. If you visit during midsummer, adapt to local rhythms: retreat into air-conditioned port museums or harbor malls during the blistering midday hours, and emerge only when dusk settles over the water. Even late at night, the bay retains its swelter, making a handheld fan an indispensable companion.
September starts wet and sticky, with late-summer storms often washing across the bay. Yet the mood shifts around the lively Kanteibyo Festival in Yokohama Chinatown, where neighborhood streets burst into color with lion dancers and percussion honouring Guan Yu. You will still contend with muggy air and sudden squalls, but the cultural warmth begins to outshine the weather. October pulls the city out of summer's grip. The air cools rapidly, skies clear, and outdoor dining returns to the docks in Naka ward. November refines that shift into crisp, exhilarating autumn. While crowds steadily build back toward holiday highs, the weather remains dry and agreeable for exploring historic harbor stairs and hill paths. The daytime chill is easily handled with a good coat, and the harbor waters gleam under sharp, low-angled sunlight.
December presents the greatest paradox of Yokohama's travel calendar. It is the most crowded month of the year, yet the seaside climate is undeniably harsh. Crowds flock in droves to the Yokohama Christmas Market at Akarenga, drawn by the fairytale glow of illuminated European timber stalls set against the backdrop of the red-brick warehouses. But Akarenga sits fully exposed to Tokyo Bay. Winter winds whip off the water with cut-glass sharpness, turning a casual mug of mulled wine into a test of physical endurance against the shivering drafts. January and February stay cold and blustery, though crowds thin considerably once the new year passes. The standout exception occurs during the Chinese New Year Festival, when Yokohama Chinatown explodes into a dazzling sequence of firecrackers, lion dances, and lantern displays. Wrapping up in a thick wool scarf to eat piping-hot soup dumplings while brass cymbals echo off tiled temple roofs is winter travel at its most atmospheric. By March, spring teases its arrival. The Yokohama Cherry Blossom Viewing begins as early buds break along the waterfront canals of Kanagawa Ward and Yamashita Park. However, March air retains a lingering edge, frequently dampened by spring showers, serving as a transitional prelude before the glorious calm of May takes hold.