Kamakura
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About
Kamakura, officially Kamakura City, is a city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. It is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu. The city has an estimated population of 172,929 and a population density of 4,359 people per km2 over the total area of 39.67 km2 (15.32 sq mi). Kamakura was designated as a city on 3 November 1939.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Kamakura, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Kamakura
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Overcast
23° / 14°
UV High
Sun
Clear
27° / 15°
UV Very high
Mon
Overcast
23° / 15°
UV Very high
Tue
Partly cloudy
26° / 18°
UV Very high
Wed
Drizzle
25° / 18°
3.9 mm
Thu
Rain
19° / 17°
19.5 mm
Fri
Drizzle
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
31° / 3°
Typical high / low
5 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.0h
04:38 – 18:37local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Kamakura
4 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND) at 34 km.
Getting around Kamakura
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, Original: Kzaral Vector: Ch1902.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.