Tuvalu · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Funafuti.

September leads for comfortable weather in Funafuti: typically 31.5°C by day, 25.8°C at night, with 199 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high31.5°C

Typical low25.8°C

Rain in September199 mm

Comfort

September

September · April · October

22climate match

Beach

September

September · April · October

37climate match

Outdoors

January

January · February · March

5climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 22 — 356 mm of rain falls.

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

531.5° / 25.5°

Feb

531.3° / 25.3°

Mar

631.5° / 25.4°

Apr

2131.8° / 25.9°

May

1531.7° / 26°

Jun

1931.5° / 26°

Jul

1931.2° / 25.8°

Aug

1731.2° / 25.7°

Sep

2231.5° / 25.8°

Oct

2131.7° / 25.7°

Nov

1131.8° / 25.6°

Dec

731.7° / 25.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Funafuti — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 14 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	31.5°C	25.5°C	356 mm	17	29.6°C	12 h 34	5	Good coverage
February	31.3°C	25.3°C	388 mm	17.1	29.5°C	12 h 23	5	Good coverage
March	31.5°C	25.4°C	308 mm	17.2	29.5°C	12 h 10	6	Good coverage
April	31.8°C	25.9°C	206 mm	14.3	29.6°C	11 h 56	21	Good coverage
May	31.7°C	26°C	233 mm	15.9	29.6°C	11 h 44	15	Good coverage
June	31.5°C	26°C	206 mm	16.8	29.3°C	11 h 38	19	Good coverage
July	31.2°C	25.8°C	214 mm	16.6	29.1°C	11 h 40	19	Good coverage
August	31.2°C	25.7°C	232 mm	17.1	29.0°C	11 h 50	17	Good coverage
September	31.5°C	25.8°C	199 mm	15.5	29.1°C	12 h 04	22	Good coverage
October	31.7°C	25.7°C	212 mm	13.9	29.5°C	12 h 18	21	Good coverage
November	31.8°C	25.6°C	270 mm	15.6	29.7°C	12 h 31	11	Good coverage
December	31.7°C	25.5°C	288 mm	17.5	29.7°C	12 h 37	7	Good coverage

Records at FUNAFUTI INTL ARPT, 1979–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	39.0°C8 Jan 1981	19.0°C11 Jan 1981	194 mm4 Jan 2005	830 mm2007 · driest 4 mm in 2002	44
February	37.1°C27 Feb 2025	19.0°C17 Feb 1981	341 mm2 Feb 2007	795 mm2019 · driest 18 mm in 2000	44
March	37.9°C27 Mar 1988	18.4°C2 Mar 1982	392 mm30 Mar 2016	637 mm2016 · driest 16 mm in 2018	44
April	37.1°C25 Apr 1999	19.0°C5 Apr 1981	169 mm3 Apr 2017	455 mm1986 · driest 24 mm in 1980	44
May	36.0°C16 May 2012	19.0°C17 May 1980	372 mm9 May 1990	491 mm1982 · driest 6 mm in 2000	45
June	36.4°C18 Jun 1988	19.0°C15 Jun 1980	171 mm17 Jun 1993	495 mm2024 · driest 6 mm in 2002	43
July	36.0°C6 Jul 1979	19.0°C3 Jul 1981	149 mm23 Jul 1987	499 mm2015 · driest 23 mm in 2001	44
August	33.6°C3 Aug 2023	19.0°C3 Aug 1980	212 mm5 Aug 2002	462 mm2024 · driest 4 mm in 2001	44
September	33.6°C2 Sep 2023	19.0°C12 Sep 1979	129 mm23 Sep 2019	426 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 1999	43
October	37.0°C6 Oct 1979	18.0°C10 Oct 1980	171 mm22 Oct 1988	463 mm2021 · driest 3 mm in 2000	42
November	35.6°C30 Nov 2012	19.0°C21 Nov 1981	157 mm24 Nov 2009	492 mm2006 · driest 30 mm in 2001	44
December	35.7°C10 Dec 2023	19.0°C22 Dec 1980	214 mm26 Dec 1984	806 mm1984 · driest 47 mm in 1979	42

Typical days per month at FUNAFUTI INTL ARPT, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	20	18	7
February	20	18	6
March	21	19	6
April	20	19	5
May	21	20	5
June	20	19	4
July	21	19	5
August	21	19	5
September	20	19	4
October	20	19	5
November	20	19	5
December	20	20	7

How often, not how much — every day in FUNAFUTI INTL ARPT’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	44%	56%	30%	74%	30.6–32.3°C
February	43%	58%	31%	80%	30.5–32.0°C
March	44%	55%	25%	78%	30.2–32.3°C
April	47%	52%	20%	77%	30.7–32.4°C
May	48%	51%	20%	74%	30.6–32.3°C
June	46%	52%	18%	74%	30.5–32.0°C
July	46%	53%	19%	77%	29.9–32.1°C
August	47%	53%	21%	79%	30.1–31.9°C
September	50%	51%	19%	76%	30.3–32.1°C
October	55%	46%	21%	69%	30.6–32.1°C
November	48%	51%	22%	79%	30.8–32.4°C
December	43%	56%	28%	81%	30.9–32.2°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.

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2110394
NOAA station: TV000091643 · FUNAFUTI INTL ARPT
Station distance: 2.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 19 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -8.52°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 14 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 FUNAFUTI INTL ARPT is what differs

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Or put two places side by side: Funafuti vs Senala Village

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

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Best time to visit
Funafuti.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.