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Best time to visit
Rikitea.

September leads for comfortable weather in Rikitea: typically 24.1°C by day, 19.1°C at night, with 117 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24.1°C

Typical low19.1°C

Rain in September117 mm

Comfort

September

September · July · August

74climate match

Beach

February

February · March · November

60climate match

Outdoors

July

July · September · August

49climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 42 against September’s 74 — 175 mm of rain falls, and nights stay at 22.9°C.

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

4228.2° / 22.9°

Feb

4428.5° / 23.2°

Mar

4228.6° / 23.4°

Apr

4627.4° / 22.6°

May

5425.8° / 21.2°

Jun

6624.4° / 20.1°

Jul

7323.8° / 19.3°

Aug

7323.8° / 18.9°

Sep

7424.1° / 19.1°

Oct

6524.8° / 19.9°

Nov

5626° / 21°

Dec

4927.3° / 22.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Rikitea — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 10 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	28.2°C	22.9°C	175 mm	14	26.6°C	13 h 25	42	Strong coverage
February	28.5°C	23.2°C	156 mm	13.3	27.1°C	12 h 54	44	Strong coverage
March	28.6°C	23.4°C	169 mm	12.9	27.2°C	12 h 17	42	Strong coverage
April	27.4°C	22.6°C	181 mm	12.8	26.7°C	11 h 35	46	Strong coverage
May	25.8°C	21.2°C	178 mm	12.5	25.6°C	11 h 01	54	Strong coverage
June	24.4°C	20.1°C	147 mm	11.6	24.6°C	10 h 43	66	Strong coverage
July	23.8°C	19.3°C	112 mm	11.9	23.8°C	10 h 50	73	Strong coverage
August	23.8°C	18.9°C	120 mm	11.4	23.4°C	11 h 19	73	Strong coverage
September	24.1°C	19.1°C	117 mm	10.7	23.3°C	11 h 59	74	Strong coverage
October	24.8°C	19.9°C	143 mm	12.2	23.7°C	12 h 40	65	Strong coverage
November	26°C	21°C	172 mm	11.7	24.5°C	13 h 16	56	Strong coverage
December	27.3°C	22.1°C	168 mm	13.3	25.6°C	13 h 33	49	Strong coverage

Records at MANGAREVA, 1979–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	31.2°C30 Jan 1988	18.5°C8 Jan 1990	156 mm8 Jan 2015	479 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 1980	48
February	33.9°C15 Feb 2011	19.3°C16 Feb 2020	129 mm29 Feb 2020	358 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1981	47
March	31.4°C7 Mar 2016	18.3°C25 Mar 1999	142 mm29 Mar 1985	477 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 1979	48
April	30.9°C7 Apr 2006	18.1°C21 Apr 1994	202 mm15 Apr 2019	393 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1981	48
May	29.9°C1 May 1987	15.4°C3 May 2007	148 mm30 May 2006	356 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1981	48
June	28.8°C10 Jun 2026	15.7°C14 Jun 1997	121 mm11 Jun 2003	406 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 1979	48
July	27.0°C1 Jul 1980	14.0°C21 Jul 1994	78 mm17 Jul 1983	245 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 1980	48
August	28.4°C9 Aug 1988	12.0°C18 Aug 1981	108 mm23 Aug 1996	276 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 1980	47
September	28.3°C24 Sep 2011	14.6°C8 Sep 2019	95 mm22 Sep 2015	286 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1979	47
October	28.4°C31 Oct 2000	14.4°C7 Oct 1990	177 mm27 Oct 2002	349 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 1979	47
November	29.6°C18 Nov 1984	14.8°C3 Nov 2022	248 mm18 Nov 2023	788 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1981	47
December	30.1°C16 Dec 1983	15.7°C28 Dec 2022	139 mm19 Dec 1995	412 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1981	47

Typical days per month at MANGAREVA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	22	<1	4
February	21	<1	3
March	23	2	4
April	19	<1	4
May	15	0	4
June	9	0	3
July	6	0	3
August	6	0	3
September	7	0	3
October	12	0	3
November	16	0	3
December	20	0	5

How often, not how much — every day in MANGAREVA’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	61%	41%	12%	62%	27.6–28.9°C
February	59%	43%	13%	65%	27.7–29.3°C
March	61%	40%	12%	56%	27.8–29.2°C
April	63%	37%	12%	55%	26.5–28.5°C
May	62%	37%	11%	55%	25.0–26.8°C
June	61%	36%	12%	54%	23.8–25.5°C
July	58%	38%	11%	55%	23.0–24.8°C
August	63%	34%	10%	50%	22.9–24.8°C
September	67%	33%	10%	51%	23.2–25.2°C
October	67%	33%	10%	49%	24.0–26.1°C
November	65%	36%	13%	51%	25.3–26.8°C
December	63%	38%	15%	61%	26.6–27.9°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 26-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 2019.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4030556
NOAA station: FP000091948 · MANGAREVA
Station distance: 1.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -23.12°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 10 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 MANGAREVA is what differs

Taku→Rouru→Kirimiro→Gatavaké→Gahutu→Atituiti→

Or put two places side by side: Rikitea vs Taku

Best time to visitRikitea.