Sendai
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📷 Nryate· CC BY-SA 4.0杜の都 | The City of Trees
About
Sendai is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region. As of 1 August 2023, the city had a population of 1,098,335 in 539,698 households, making it the twelfth most populated city in Japan.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sendai, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Sendai
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
20° / 11°
UV High
Sun
Overcast
23° / 10°
UV High
Mon
Overcast
20° / 11°
UV Very high
Tue
Overcast
32° / 12°
UV High
Wed
Overcast
30° / 17°
UV High
Thu
Rain
20° / 13°
11.4 mm
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
30° / -1°
Typical high / low
3 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.2h
04:26 – 18:39local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Sendai
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Sendai Airport (SDJ) at 15 km.
Getting around Sendai
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
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, Kzaral. The symbol is taken from Image:Symbol of Sendai, Miyagi.svg, which is a public domain image..
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.