New Caledonia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Receiving.

September leads for comfortable weather in Receiving: typically 24.7°C by day, 18°C at night, with 44 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24.7°C

Typical low18°C

Rain in September44 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · October

88climate match

Beach

November

November · December · October

90climate match

Outdoors

September

September · August · October

66climate match

The weakest month is March, scoring 43 against September’s 88 — 162 mm of rain falls, and days average 28.8°C, 5° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

5329.5° / 23.2°

Feb

5029.9° / 23.7°

Mar

4328.8° / 23.1°

Apr

6027.3° / 21.6°

May

7225.5° / 19.8°

Jun

8124.1° / 18.5°

Jul

8123.3° / 17.3°

Aug

8423.3° / 17°

Sep

8824.7° / 18°

Oct

8326° / 19.3°

Nov

7527.4° / 20.5°

Dec

6429.1° / 22.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Receiving — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 12 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	29.5°C	23.2°C	98 mm	9.5	26.2°C	13 h 21	53	Good coverage
February	29.9°C	23.7°C	101 mm	9.7	26.9°C	12 h 52	50	Good coverage
March	28.8°C	23.1°C	162 mm	12.1	26.6°C	12 h 17	43	Good coverage
April	27.3°C	21.6°C	104 mm	10.9	25.8°C	11 h 36	60	Good coverage
May	25.5°C	19.8°C	89 mm	11.1	24.9°C	11 h 04	72	Good coverage
June	24.1°C	18.5°C	77 mm	9.7	23.7°C	10 h 47	81	Good coverage
July	23.3°C	17.3°C	77 mm	9.8	22.8°C	10 h 53	81	Good coverage
August	23.3°C	17°C	67 mm	9.1	22.3°C	11 h 21	84	Good coverage
September	24.7°C	18°C	44 mm	6.4	22.5°C	12 h	88	Good coverage
October	26°C	19.3°C	31 mm	5.4	23.3°C	12 h 39	83	Good coverage
November	27.4°C	20.5°C	40 mm	6.1	24.2°C	13 h 13	75	Good coverage
December	29.1°C	22.1°C	58 mm	6.2	25.4°C	13 h 29	64	Good coverage

Records at NOUMEA NF, 1945–2015
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	36.8°C25 Jan 1986	18.0°C14 Jan 2011	237 mm13 Jan 1988	321 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 1979	38
February	36.4°C1 Feb 1991	16.4°C17 Feb 2009	175 mm18 Feb 1982	328 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 1981	38
March	36.4°C1 Mar 1993	18.7°C14 Mar 2003	160 mm12 Mar 1989	338 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 1979	38
April	33.1°C5 Apr 2006	17.0°C16 Apr 1979	153 mm8 Apr 1992	249 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1979	37
May	31.6°C4 May 2014	15.7°C17 May 1994	84 mm17 May 1996	208 mm1996 · driest 0 mm in 1980	37
June	30.7°C19 Jun 2002	12.0°C20 Jun 1980	180 mm4 Jun 1984	339 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 1980	37
July	30.6°C25 Jul 2008	13.7°C21 Jul 1994	99 mm7 Jul 1997	175 mm2003 · driest 0 mm in 1979	37
August	31.7°C8 Aug 1995	11.9°C17 Aug 1987	97 mm7 Aug 1982	174 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 1980	37
September	33.0°C29 Sep 2010	9.6°C18 Sep 2010	73 mm2 Sep 1945	148 mm1945 · driest 0 mm in 1979	38
October	32.3°C3 Oct 2003	13.3°C10 Oct 1993	68 mm27 Oct 1987	161 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 1981	38
November	34.9°C20 Nov 2001	15.0°C6 Nov 1980	143 mm8 Nov 1990	227 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 1979	37
December	35.7°C27 Dec 2010	17.8°C17 Dec 1993	97 mm31 Dec 1987	148 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 1980	37

Typical days per month at NOUMEA NF, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	27	11	2
February	26	11	2
March	27	8	3
April	24	2	3
May	18	<1	2
June	7	0	2
July	4	0	1
August	5	<1	1
September	10	<1	<1
October	18	2	<1
November	25	3	<1
December	27	9	2

How often, not how much — every day in NOUMEA NF’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	71%	27%	8%	40%	28.1–30.7°C
February	68%	31%	8%	46%	28.3–31.1°C
March	61%	37%	12%	56%	27.6–29.7°C
April	68%	30%	7%	42%	26.2–28.7°C
May	68%	31%	7%	48%	24.7–26.6°C
June	69%	28%	6%	39%	23.3–24.9°C
July	71%	27%	5%	38%	22.5–24.1°C
August	74%	25%	5%	26%	22.5–24.0°C
September	81%	17%	3%	20%	23.6–25.5°C
October	84%	15%	3%	19%	24.9–27.0°C
November	80%	19%	4%	21%	26.4–28.7°C
December	80%	19%	5%	25%	27.4–30.1°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1979Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 25-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1982.2010

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 10227143
NOAA station: NCW00082608 · NOUMEA NF
Station distance: 3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 19 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -22.29°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 12 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from NOUMEA NF is what differs

Nouméa→Mont-Dore→Dumbéa→Païta→Vallée des Colons→Magenta→

Or put two places side by side: Receiving vs Nouméa

Best time to visitReceiving.

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September

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Receiving.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.