What is the climate type in Japan?

Japanese climate: temperate monsoon climate, subtropical monsoon climate.

Summer is hot and rainy, winter is cold and dry, and the four seasons are distinct. The national latitude is 25, and the temperature difference between north and south is very significant. Most areas belong to temperate climate with four distinct seasons. Okinawa in the south belongs to the subtropical zone, and Hokkaido in the north belongs to the sub-frigid zone. ?

The precipitation in Japan is the highest in the world. The main reasons include winter snowfall in Japan's coastal areas; Continuous plum rains in June-July (May-June in Okinawa and Amami); And typhoons that landed in or near Japan from summer to autumn.

Climatic causes of extended data

1. Because it is located near the Tropic of Cancer, it forms a subtropical monsoon climate. The subtropical monsoon climate is mostly located in the north of the Tropic of Cancer, which is mainly caused by the difference of thermal properties between land and sea. Because it is located in the coastal area, due to the temperature difference between land and sea, the southeast wind blows in summer and the northwest wind blows in winter. The two control alternately and change seasonally, forming monsoon.

2. Temperate monsoon climate, controlled by temperate continental air mass in winter, cold and dry, with large temperature difference between north and south; In summer, it is warm, hot and rainy, and the temperature difference between north and south is small due to the influence of temperate marine air mass or denatured tropical marine air mass.

It is cold and rainy in winter and warm and rainy in summer. In winter, influenced by the strong Siberian continental cold high, winter winds prevail, the wind is strong, the weather is sunny and cold, and there is little rain and snow.

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