Oita Weather Forecast

Mild and sheltered — the mountains behind block the worst of the winter wind, so January sits near 11°C. Those cold clear mornings are when the steam rising off the hot springs is at its most photogenic. Summer is humid but coastal.

By several degrees. It sits inland in a basin at higher elevation, which produces its celebrated morning mist in autumn and early winter, and occasional snow that Beppu — 25 minutes away — never sees.

Late October to November for clear skies, the Kuju colours and proper onsen weather, or April to June before the rains arrive. The tsuyu in late June and July is genuinely wet here, not a formality.