French Polynesia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Afareaitu.

July leads for comfortable weather in Afareaitu: typically 29.4°C by day, 21.7°C at night, with 39 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high29.4°C

Typical low21.7°C

Rain in July39 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · September

68climate match

Beach

July

July · August · September

95climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · September

48climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 20 against July’s 68 — 250 mm of rain falls, and days average 31.3°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

2031.3° / 24.2°

Feb

2331.4° / 24.3°

Mar

3331.8° / 24.5°

Apr

4331.6° / 24.3°

May

5030.7° / 23.3°

Jun

6129.9° / 22.3°

Jul

6829.4° / 21.7°

Aug

6829.3° / 21.5°

Sep

6629.6° / 22°

Oct

5529.9° / 22.7°

Nov

4830.7° / 23.6°

Dec

2230.9° / 24.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Afareaitu — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 13 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	31.3°C	24.2°C	250 mm	13.1	28.4°C	13 h 04	20	Strong coverage
February	31.4°C	24.3°C	233 mm	12.1	28.6°C	12 h 42	23	Strong coverage
March	31.8°C	24.5°C	167 mm	9.9	28.9°C	12 h 14	33	Strong coverage
April	31.6°C	24.3°C	111 mm	8.7	28.8°C	11 h 43	43	Strong coverage
May	30.7°C	23.3°C	97 mm	8.1	28.2°C	11 h 18	50	Strong coverage
June	29.9°C	22.3°C	68 mm	5.3	27.5°C	11 h 05	61	Strong coverage
July	29.4°C	21.7°C	39 mm	4.4	26.8°C	11 h 10	68	Strong coverage
August	29.3°C	21.5°C	42 mm	5.3	26.5°C	11 h 31	68	Strong coverage
September	29.6°C	22°C	43 mm	4.4	26.4°C	12 h 01	66	Strong coverage
October	29.9°C	22.7°C	92 mm	6.8	26.8°C	12 h 31	55	Strong coverage
November	30.7°C	23.6°C	105 mm	8.6	27.5°C	12 h 58	48	Strong coverage
December	30.9°C	24.1°C	248 mm	13.5	28.1°C	13 h 10	22	Strong coverage

Records at TAHITI-FAAA, 1979–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	34.1°C23 Jan 1993	20.2°C19 Jan 2006	282 mm30 Jan 1990	664 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1980	47
February	34.5°C28 Feb 1991	21.0°C23 Feb 1982	145 mm25 Feb 1982	658 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 1979	46
March	34.6°C3 Mar 1994	21.7°C31 Mar 1983	200 mm5 Mar 1988	636 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 1999	46
April	34.5°C10 Apr 1991	20.6°C20 Apr 1983	182 mm16 Apr 1987	607 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 1979	46
May	33.3°C17 May 1994	19.5°C24 May 2000	222 mm26 May 2006	433 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 1981	46
June	32.7°C13 Jun 1991	15.9°C26 Jun 1982	108 mm11 Jun 2003	270 mm2003 · driest 0 mm in 1979	46
July	31.6°C10 Jul 1991	16.3°C4 Jul 1984	64 mm14 Jul 1988	170 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 1997	46
August	33.4°C8 Aug 1983	16.7°C25 Aug 1983	122 mm4 Aug 1990	164 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 1981	46
September	31.7°C8 Sep 1991	17.7°C1 Sep 1997	97 mm16 Sep 1992	212 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 1979	46
October	32.4°C5 Oct 1999	17.8°C26 Oct 1982	138 mm26 Oct 2013	354 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 1981	46
November	33.9°C5 Nov 2005	18.8°C15 Nov 1982	176 mm8 Nov 1989	375 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 1979	46
December	33.2°C12 Dec 2009	19.5°C17 Dec 2000	298 mm21 Dec 1998	742 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1980	46

Typical days per month at TAHITI-FAAA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	21	19	6
February	20	19	4
March	21	20	4
April	21	20	3
May	21	18	2
June	20	11	2
July	21	6	1
August	21	5	1
September	21	8	1
October	21	12	3
November	20	17	3
December	21	18	6

How often, not how much — every day in TAHITI-FAAA’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	62%	40%	19%	59%	30.5–31.7°C
February	64%	39%	17%	57%	30.7–32.0°C
March	74%	28%	12%	37%	31.0–32.4°C
April	78%	26%	9%	31%	30.9–31.9°C
May	79%	22%	6%	26%	29.8–31.0°C
June	84%	17%	5%	16%	29.3–30.4°C
July	86%	15%	4%	14%	28.5–30.0°C
August	86%	15%	4%	14%	28.3–29.8°C
September	88%	14%	4%	14%	28.7–30.0°C
October	82%	20%	7%	26%	29.3–30.4°C
November	74%	26%	10%	36%	29.9–31.1°C
December	66%	37%	17%	61%	29.9–31.4°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.

1980Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 25-year average. Warmest: 1994. Coolest: 1981.2012

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4034741
NOAA station: FP000091938 · TAHITI-FAAA
Station distance: 17.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -17.55°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 13 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 TAHITI-FAAA is what differs

Faaa→Papeete→Punaauia→Pirae→Mahina→Paea→

Or put two places side by side: Afareaitu vs Faaa

Best time to visitAfareaitu.

July

July

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Afareaitu.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.