Fukuoka

Fukuoka, Japan: the weather, the air, the distance to the coast and what a month costs, each with its source. This page assesses no one.

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A year here

7 of 12 months have a mean temperature inside 10–26 °C, a band we chose and apply to every city alike. Thirty-year normals from NASA POWER, measured at this city’s own coordinates.

Jan840
Feb1051
Mar1483
Apr19138
May241813
Jun272218
Jul302622
Aug312623
Sept272319
Oct221713
Nov16128
Dec1062

Each cell: average daily high, monthly mean, average daily low, in °C. These are averages of daily values over 2001–2020, not records — the hottest day is higher and is not shown.

How near the sea is

1.9 km

Straight-line distance from this city’s coordinates to the nearest coastline, computed from Natural Earth 1:10m Physical Vectors — Coastline (ne_10m_coastline) v5.1.2 at 1:10,000,000. Natural Earth is public domain, and anyone can download the same file and get the same number.

It is a distance and not an access. A city 8 km from the coast across a mountain ridge is not 8 km from the sea in any sense you would use, and the figure says nothing about what is on that coast — a container terminal and a bay give the same number. The coastline is the outline of the dataset’s land, so a river wide enough to separate land counts as coast.

Air through the year

Fukuoka, 2025: PM2.5 averaged over 5 reference monitor(s) within 25 km. The World Health Organization’s guideline is 5 µg/m³ and its first interim target is 35.

Jan10
Feb12
Mar15
Apr12
May10
Jun—
Jul8
Aug9
Sept10
Oct12
Nov12
Dec11

A hatched month with a dash is one no monitor measured. It is an absence, not clean air, and it is left out of the annual mean.

How this city rates

Safety: 100 / 100measured
Healthcare: 96 / 100measured
Air quality: 80 / 100measured

A month here, for a reference household

Reference household: two adults aged 38 and 37, a one-bedroom home, no children.

Residence fees and health cover are those of Business Manager status of residence. The low, middle and high figures are the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles where a publisher states them; each line says who published it.

illustrative Money figures on this page are illustrative unless the figure names its publisher. The illustrative ones are arranged so the shape is right — a larger flat costs more than a smaller one, and the expensive cities are the expensive ones — and they are accurate in nothing. Do not plan on them.

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Line	P25 Full entry The lower quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall below it. Read it as the cheaper end of what is realistic, not as a bargain you can count on.	P50 Full entry The middle of the estimate range: half the observations fall below it and half above. It is the figure to read first — not a promise, but the most representative single number we have.	P75 Full entry The upper quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall above it. Budget against this one if you want room to be wrong.	Basis
Rent^*	not published	€318	not published	Average of published figuresPublished by 総務省統計局 (Statistics Bureau of Japan) More about this figure Fukuoka, observed 11 September 2026Measured in 2023.Covers every rented home in the city, including tenants who signed years ago.This figure covers rented homes of every size in the city, so it does not change with the number of bedrooms a household needs.Rents in existing contracts — a newcomer is usually asked more.Shown here and kept out of the ranking: the same office also measures what people signing a new lease now pay, and that is the figure this city should be ranked on.
Electricity, gas and fuel^*	not published	€91	not published	Average of published figuresPublished by 総務省統計局 (Statistics Bureau of Japan) More about this figure Per householdMeasured in 2025.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average household of two or more people in 福岡市, per month over calendar year 2025 — 2.91 people, 77.2% owner-occupiers, and only 90 households in the sample, which is a small base for a city figure. 家計調査 (Family Income and Expenditure Survey), 総務省統計局.
Water, sewerage and waste^*	not published	€29	not published	Average of published figuresPublished by 総務省統計局 (Statistics Bureau of Japan) More about this figure Per householdMeasured in 2025.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average household of two or more people in 福岡市, per month over calendar year 2025 — 2.91 people, 77.2% owner-occupiers, and only 90 households in the sample, which is a small base for a city figure. 家計調査 (Family Income and Expenditure Survey), 総務省統計局.
Internet and phone^*	not published	€59	not published	Average of published figuresPublished by 総務省統計局 (Statistics Bureau of Japan) More about this figure Per householdMeasured in 2025.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average household of two or more people in 福岡市, per month over calendar year 2025 — 2.91 people, 77.2% owner-occupiers, and only 90 households in the sample, which is a small base for a city figure. 家計調査 (Family Income and Expenditure Survey), 総務省統計局.
Groceries^*	not published	€283	not published	Average of published figuresPublished by 総務省統計局 (Statistics Bureau of Japan) More about this figure Adults: 2 · children: 0Measured in 2025.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: Per person, from the average household of two or more people in 福岡市 over calendar year 2025 — 2.91 people, 77.2% owner-occupiers, and only 90 households in the sample, which is a small base for a city figure. The survey states the bill per household and the persons per household; the figure here is the first divided by the second. Children are not counted differently, because the survey does not count them differently.This is the survey’s average person. Food has strong economies of scale, and the publisher states one figure per person and no split by household size — so a larger household is charged here as though each member shopped alone.73,869 JPY a month per household ÷ 2.91 people per household, both published by 総務省統計局 (Statistics Bureau of Japan)
Transport	€126	€180	€234	Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figure Adults: 2
Health cover	€126	€180	€234	Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figure Per member, by age band
Schooling (state schooling)	€0	€0	€0	Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figure Children: 0
Building or service charge	not held	not held	not held	Held by nobody More about this figure Per household
Statutory levies and licences	not held	not held	not held	Held by nobody More about this figure Per household
Residence permit renewals	not held	not held	not held	Held by nobody More about this figure Per household
Domestic help	not held	not held	not held	Held by nobody More about this figure Per household
Household and leisure baseline	€272	€390	€508	Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figure People: 2
Total	not published	€1,530	not published	This total does not include Building or service charge, Statutory levies and licences, Residence permit renewals and Domestic help, which nobody publishes for this city. It is the sum of what we hold, not of what the household will pay.No low or high total, because the spread of these lines was never published: Rent, Electricity, gas and fuel, Water, sewerage and waste, Internet and phone and Groceries. Everything else here is either a measured range or an exact price.

– = not published by the source

Routes we hold for Japan

Business Manager status of residence — Draft — not checked by us yet

Every requirement, as its rule states it, is on the page for Japan

Provenance

Rule set 1.58.0-2026-10-11 · read on 26 October 2026. Every figure on this page was computed by the engine from versioned rule files. No language model produced any number here, and translation happens only after the calculation.

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