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Japan · 26.21°N 127.68°E · monthly climate normals, judged against the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers)

No month in Okinawa fits the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers) — it is too hot. The table below shows which holiday types do fit.

Rain falls year-round, 112–248 mm4.4–9.8 in a month, so there is no dry season to aim for; December is the driest month and August the wettest. July is the hottest month at 29 °C84 °F and January the coldest at 17 °C63 °F.

Figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at 26.21, 127.68 — a climate guide, not a forecast.

Okinawa weather by month

Pick the weather you like and every month is judged against it — temperature above the month names, rain below.

Weather you like

mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers

No month fits a Warm holiday here.

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▲ Temperature mean , coldest to warmest month
17°63°JAN1285.017°63°FEB1285.019°66°MAR1766.922°71°APR1847.224°75°MAY2409.427°81°JUN2329.129°84°JUL1766.929°83°AUG2489.828°82°SEP2007.925°77°OCT1766.922°72°NOV1285.019°65°DEC1124.4
▼ Rainfall per month, driest to wettest

Reading the chart. Gold is good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour names the reason it doesn't — the temperature bar can be too cold or too hot, the rain bar too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar is a half that fits while the other half fails; a gold month name means both fit.

What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the monthly mean, judged against the preset's band (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Okinawa's own year rather than raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month the preset doesn't allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season — 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate whose wettest month is at least three times its driest — so every monsoon month is rainy season too; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.

MonthRain Mean SeasonWarm verdict
January1285.01763rainytoo rainy
February1285.01763rainytoo rainy
March1766.91966rainytoo rainy
April1847.22271rainytoo rainy
May2409.42475rainytoo hot
June2329.12781rainytoo hot
July1766.92984rainytoo hot
August2489.82983rainytoo hot
September2007.92882rainytoo hot
October1766.92577rainytoo hot
November1285.02272rainytoo rainy
December1124.41965rainytoo rainy

When to go to Okinawa, by holiday type

Looking forRuleMonths that fit
Warmmean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showersno month
Tropicalmean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, anything but the monsoonMay to October
Beachmean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, dry or showersno month
Coolmean 0–14 °C32–57 °F, anything but the monsoonno month
Snowmean below 0 °C32 °F, any rainno month

Is there a rainy season in Okinawa?

Not a distinct one. Rain falls year-round, 112–248 mm4.4–9.8 in a month, so there is no dry season to aim for; December is the driest month and August the wettest.

July is the hottest month at 29 °C84 °F and January the coldest at 17 °C63 °F. Annual rainfall totals about 2,128 mm84 in.

Where to go instead when Okinawa doesn't fit

The nearest destinations that do fit the Warm preset in the months Okinawa doesn't:

Nearby destinations

distances in — tap a unit to switch.

The interactive map colours the whole world by how it fits your picks in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.