French Polynesia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Atuona.

September leads for comfortable weather in Atuona: typically 29.8°C by day, 22.5°C at night, with 80 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high29.8°C

Typical low22.5°C

Rain in September80 mm

Comfort

September

September · December · October

53climate match

Beach

September

September · December · October

76climate match

Outdoors

September

September · December · October

30climate match

The weakest month is March, scoring 31 against September’s 53 — days average 31.8°C, 8° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and 159 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

3731.4° / 23.2°

Feb

4131.7° / 23.4°

Mar

3131.8° / 23.8°

Apr

3431.4° / 23.8°

May

3730.8° / 23.5°

Jun

4129.8° / 23.1°

Jul

4229.2° / 22.7°

Aug

4529.3° / 22.4°

Sep

5329.8° / 22.5°

Oct

4830.6° / 22.5°

Nov

4831° / 22.7°

Dec

5031.3° / 23.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Atuona — 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	31.4°C	23.2°C	139 mm	13.1	28.2°C	12 h 38	37	Strong coverage
February	31.7°C	23.4°C	111 mm	12	28.3°C	12 h 26	41	Strong coverage
March	31.8°C	23.8°C	159 mm	14.7	28.7°C	12 h 11	31	Strong coverage
April	31.4°C	23.8°C	149 mm	13.6	28.7°C	11 h 54	34	Strong coverage
May	30.8°C	23.5°C	141 mm	14.1	28.5°C	11 h 40	37	Strong coverage
June	29.8°C	23.1°C	144 mm	14.3	28.1°C	11 h 33	41	Strong coverage
July	29.2°C	22.7°C	145 mm	15.9	27.5°C	11 h 36	42	Strong coverage
August	29.3°C	22.4°C	129 mm	15.4	27.2°C	11 h 47	45	Strong coverage
September	29.8°C	22.5°C	80 mm	12.3	27.2°C	12 h 04	53	Strong coverage
October	30.6°C	22.5°C	90 mm	13.1	27.4°C	12 h 20	48	Strong coverage
November	31°C	22.7°C	88 mm	11.5	27.8°C	12 h 35	48	Strong coverage
December	31.3°C	23.1°C	74 mm	9.9	28.0°C	12 h 42	50	Strong coverage

Records at HIVA-OA, 1979–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	35.4°C18 Jan 2009	20.3°C1 Jan 1982	331 mm23 Jan 1983	880 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1981	48
February	35.3°C12 Feb 2012	20.9°C25 Feb 1984	197 mm27 Feb 1983	798 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1981	48
March	35.9°C11 Mar 1988	20.2°C2 Mar 1985	156 mm18 Mar 2017	619 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1981	48
April	35.3°C3 Apr 2024	21.3°C12 Apr 2009	114 mm17 Apr 1996	462 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1979	48
May	34.7°C8 May 2013	20.2°C17 May 2008	190 mm17 May 1992	579 mm1983 · driest 1 mm in 1989	48
June	33.2°C22 Jun 2019	20.0°C28 Jun 1983	174 mm23 Jun 1992	311 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1979	48
July	32.3°C9 Jul 1987	20.0°C16 Jul 1989	106 mm23 Jul 1984	482 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 1979	48
August	32.6°C23 Aug 1987	19.9°C15 Aug 1988	96 mm13 Aug 2006	341 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1980	47
September	33.5°C28 Sep 2015	19.8°C22 Sep 1994	102 mm26 Sep 1982	184 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 1981	47
October	34.8°C28 Oct 2015	19.2°C23 Oct 1988	101 mm11 Oct 2009	289 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 1979	47
November	36.0°C20 Nov 2014	20.0°C1 Nov 1986	113 mm22 Nov 2011	396 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1980	47
December	37.6°C3 Dec 1990	20.6°C7 Dec 2007	134 mm24 Dec 1982	362 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 1981	47

Typical days per month at HIVA-OA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	23	21	3
February	22	20	2
March	23	22	3
April	23	20	4
May	24	18	4
June	22	10	4
July	23	5	4
August	23	6	3
September	22	9	2
October	23	15	2
November	22	19	2
December	23	20	2

How often, not how much — every day in HIVA-OA’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	63%	38%	10%	54%	30.4–32.3°C
February	62%	39%	9%	56%	30.6–32.6°C
March	60%	42%	12%	58%	30.6–33.0°C
April	59%	43%	14%	57%	30.2–32.5°C
May	60%	42%	12%	64%	29.7–31.6°C
June	59%	41%	10%	60%	28.9–30.8°C
July	54%	46%	12%	69%	28.5–30.0°C
August	55%	43%	10%	64%	28.4–30.1°C
September	64%	36%	5%	54%	29.0–30.6°C
October	65%	35%	6%	46%	29.6–31.3°C
November	69%	31%	5%	43%	30.2–32.0°C
December	71%	29%	6%	37%	30.4–32.3°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 31-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 2000.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4020109
NOAA station: FP000091925 · HIVA-OA
Station distance: 1.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -9.80°, 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 HIVA-OA is what differs

Omoa→Vaitahu→Taua→Nahoe→Motopu→Ivaiva Nui→

Or put two places side by side: Atuona vs Omoa

Best time to visitAtuona.

September

September

September

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Atuona.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.