Sapporo
City in Japan: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
札幌タワー電波塔展望台から札幌駅方面 - panoramio: Hideki Uchida (セラ), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Sapporo is a city in Japan, in Hokkaido. About 2.0 million people live in the city proper, making it the 5th largest city of Japan in our atlas.
It lies at 43.07° N, 141.35° E, about 26 m (85 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Tokyo time zone.
Location
Red dot: Sapporo. Green dots: other major cities of Japan. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Sapporo has a continental (warm summer) climate (Köppen Dfb). The warmest month is usually Aug, with average highs near 24°C (75°F); the coolest nights come in Feb at about -10°C (14°F). Around 1,271 mm (50 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Aug.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in JapanNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Sendai · 534 km
- Saitama · 806 km
- Tokyo · 830 km
- Chiba · 835 km
- Kawasaki · 848 km
- Yokohama · 858 km
- Nagoya · 947 km
- Kyoto · 1,002 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2128295 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q37951 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- 札幌タワー電波塔展望台から札幌駅方面 - panoramio: Hideki Uchida (セラ), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Makomanai Open Stadium: モンモン, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- 20200119 Sapporo Clock Tower: Balon Greyjoy, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- JR Sapporo Sta07s3s2790: 663highland, CC BY 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Nakajima Park Sapporo01n3200: 663highland, CC BY 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 131103 Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens Sapporo Hokkaido Japan18o: 663highland, CC BY 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 北海道立近代美術館: K. Takeda at Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bottazzi and Miyanomori: Guillaumb, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 月寒屋外競技場: Wakimasa, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
