07 May 2013
Cold Golden Week
It's the last day of this year's golden week. Unfortunately, I was mostly working through this golden week. This was my second time to spend golden week in Sapporo. I believe last golden week was warmer than this year. Or I should say this year's golden week was chilly.
What is Golden Week?
I though, I wrote about golden week before, but I'll write about it in this article. The golden week was large consecutive holidays in Japan. There are 4 national holidays in this week. These are "Showa day(昭和の日):29th April", "Constitution Memorial day(憲法記念日):3rd May", "Greenery day(みどりの日):4th May" and "Children's day(こどもの日):5th May".
Also 6th May was off too because "Children's day" fall on Sunday.
Of course, 1st May is May day then some people take day off on that day.
So, in this year we could take 10 days of consecutive holidays, if you take holidays on 30th April and 2nd May.
In fact, I don't like these kind of consecutive holidays. Most of people are in off and they go somewhere popular. Then they make traffic jams in main roads, also the price of flight ticket get high. So I prefer to take my holidays in different time.
The Weather
Unfortunately, weather while this golden week was bad in Sapporo.
Here's the weather in Sapporo during this golden week.
- 27th April (Saturday)
- Rainy occasionally cloudy
- 28th April (Sunday)
- Rainy occasionally cloudy
- 29th April (Showa day)
- Rainy, later, occasionally cloudy
- 30th April (Tuesday)
- Rainy occasionally cloudy
- 1st May (Wednesday)
- Rainy, later, occasionally cloudy
- 2nd May (Thursday)
- Cloudy, later, occasionally rainy
- 3rd May (Constitution Memorial day)
- Rainy
- 4th May (Greenery day)
- Rainy
- 5th May (Children's day)
- Rainy occasionally cloudy
- 6th May (Makeup holiday)
- Rainy occasionally cloudy
Mostly rainy in this golden week... Also the temperature during the golden week was terrible.
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| Temperature data from Japan Meteorological Agency |
It's cold. The temperature during this period were 10 to 3 degrees lower than average year. Anyway, according to weather forecast the weather getting better in this week and the temperature will back to around average. I hope so too.
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