 The isolated Mount Kunō separates the Suruga coastline from the Shimizu coastline.On the south-central Pacific coast Shizuoka has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification "Cfa"), which is hot and humid in the summer, and rarely snows in the winter.It is close to the warm Kuroshio Current and is wet even by Japanese standards with only slightly less precipitation than Kanazawa on the opposite side of Honshū, but it is paradoxically the sunniest of Japan's major cities owing to the absence of summer fog and its sheltered location from the northwesterly winds off the Sea of Japan.