French Polynesia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Vaitape.

July leads for comfortable weather in Vaitape: typically 29.2°C by day, 23.6°C at night, with 73 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high29.2°C

Typical low23.6°C

Rain in July73 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · September

56climate match

Beach

August

August · July · September

79climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · September

34climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 13 against July’s 56 — 271 mm of rain falls, and days average 31.2°C, 7° 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

1331.2° / 24.8°

Feb

1831.4° / 24.8°

Mar

2731.6° / 25.2°

Apr

3131.4° / 25.2°

May

3730.5° / 24.8°

Jun

5029.7° / 24°

Jul

5629.2° / 23.6°

Aug

5629.2° / 23.4°

Sep

5429.7° / 23.5°

Oct

4330.2° / 24°

Nov

3530.9° / 24.5°

Dec

1831.1° / 24.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Vaitape — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 19 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	31.2°C	24.8°C	271 mm	17.7	28.5°C	13 h 01	13	Strong coverage
February	31.4°C	24.8°C	235 mm	16	28.7°C	12 h 39	18	Good coverage
March	31.6°C	25.2°C	171 mm	15	29.0°C	12 h 14	27	Strong coverage
April	31.4°C	25.2°C	156 mm	13.1	28.9°C	11 h 45	31	Strong coverage
May	30.5°C	24.8°C	142 mm	12.8	28.4°C	11 h 21	37	Strong coverage
June	29.7°C	24°C	96 mm	10.6	27.7°C	11 h 09	50	Good coverage
July	29.2°C	23.6°C	73 mm	10.1	27.1°C	11 h 14	56	Strong coverage
August	29.2°C	23.4°C	75 mm	9.4	26.8°C	11 h 34	56	Strong coverage
September	29.7°C	23.5°C	81 mm	9.4	26.7°C	12 h 01	54	Strong coverage
October	30.2°C	24°C	124 mm	11.6	27.1°C	12 h 30	43	Strong coverage
November	30.9°C	24.5°C	155 mm	12	27.8°C	12 h 54	35	Strong coverage
December	31.1°C	24.8°C	243 mm	16.3	28.2°C	13 h 06	18	Strong coverage

Records at BORA-BORA/MOTU-MUTE, 1979–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	34.7°C17 Jan 2003	21.0°C15 Jan 1979	109 mm14 Jan 1997	541 mm2022 · driest 17 mm in 1980	46
February	34.9°C1 Feb 1999	20.7°C27 Feb 2008	113 mm4 Feb 1993	516 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1979	46
March	35.2°C1 Mar 2003	21.2°C1 Mar 1995	102 mm17 Mar 2009	278 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1979	47
April	34.3°C6 Apr 2002	20.7°C30 Apr 2008	313 mm16 Apr 1987	1053 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 1981	47
May	33.5°C7 May 1999	19.9°C31 May 2002	101 mm12 May 2001	255 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 1981	47
June	32.5°C8 Jun 2002	19.5°C9 Jun 1983	158 mm4 Jun 1982	379 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1980	47
July	32.2°C14 Jul 2001	17.8°C11 Jul 1983	82 mm18 Jul 1994	170 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 1979	47
August	33.2°C26 Aug 1998	17.7°C31 Aug 1997	96 mm2 Aug 2005	181 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 1981	47
September	34.0°C14 Sep 1998	17.7°C2 Sep 1997	146 mm23 Sep 2023	334 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1980	46
October	33.6°C17 Oct 1999	19.6°C22 Oct 1984	130 mm30 Oct 1997	307 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1980	46
November	35.2°C21 Nov 2004	20.5°C9 Nov 1997	136 mm6 Nov 2014	373 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 1981	46
December	34.7°C19 Dec 2002	20.5°C29 Dec 1996	203 mm11 Dec 1991	514 mm1984 · driest 5 mm in 1980	45

Typical days per month at BORA-BORA/MOTU-MUTE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	26	23	6
February	23	21	6
March	26	24	4
April	25	23	4
May	25	19	3
June	24	10	1
July	26	4	2
August	25	4	2
September	25	9	2
October	25	16	3
November	24	21	4
December	25	21	6

How often, not how much — every day in BORA-BORA/MOTU-MUTE’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	49%	52%	21%	80%	29.9–32.1°C
February	52%	50%	21%	74%	30.5–32.4°C
March	59%	43%	13%	64%	30.8–32.5°C
April	61%	40%	13%	61%	30.4–31.8°C
May	66%	36%	10%	48%	29.8–30.9°C
June	70%	31%	5%	41%	29.2–30.1°C
July	72%	29%	5%	37%	28.5–29.8°C
August	73%	27%	5%	34%	28.5–29.6°C
September	73%	28%	7%	33%	29.0–30.2°C
October	68%	32%	9%	45%	29.3–31.1°C
November	63%	37%	14%	57%	29.9–31.6°C
December	51%	47%	18%	73%	30.2–32.1°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.

1999Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 23-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 2011.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4033077
NOAA station: FP000091929 · BORA-BORA/MOTU-MUTE
Station distance: 6.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 23 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -16.51°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 19 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 BORA-BORA/MOTU-MUTE is what differs

Vaitoare→Uturoa→Faanui→Tevaitoa→Anau→Povaie→

Or put two places side by side: Vaitape vs Vaitoare

Best time to visitVaitape.

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Vaitape.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.