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Best time to visit
Ambo Village.

November leads for comfortable weather in Ambo Village: typically 31.6°C by day, 25.5°C at night, with 94 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortNovember

Typical high31.6°C

Typical low25.5°C

Rain in November94 mm

Comfort

November

November · September · October

44climate match

Beach

November

November · September · October

64climate match

Outdoors

November

November · September · October

22climate match

The weakest month is April, scoring 21 against November’s 44 — 232 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

2331.3° / 25.3°

Feb

3431.3° / 25.3°

Mar

2231.2° / 25°

Apr

2131.2° / 25.4°

May

2731.5° / 25.5°

Jun

3431.4° / 25.5°

Jul

3431.5° / 25.3°

Aug

4031.6° / 25.2°

Sep

4231.8° / 25.5°

Oct

4131.7° / 25.6°

Nov

4431.6° / 25.5°

Dec

3131.4° / 25.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Ambo Village — 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	31.3°C	25.3°C	218 mm	12.4	28.7°C	12 h 03	23	Good coverage
February	31.3°C	25.3°C	165 mm	8.5	28.4°C	12 h 04	34	Good coverage
March	31.2°C	25°C	231 mm	13.3	28.4°C	12 h 06	22	Good coverage
April	31.2°C	25.4°C	232 mm	12.5	28.6°C	12 h 09	21	Good coverage
May	31.5°C	25.5°C	175 mm	14	29.0°C	12 h 11	27	Good coverage
June	31.4°C	25.5°C	139 mm	11.7	29.1°C	12 h 12	34	Good coverage
July	31.5°C	25.3°C	141 mm	12.1	29.2°C	12 h 11	34	Good coverage
August	31.6°C	25.2°C	106 mm	10.4	29.3°C	12 h 10	40	Good coverage
September	31.8°C	25.5°C	99 mm	7.6	29.3°C	12 h 07	42	Good coverage
October	31.7°C	25.6°C	105 mm	7.7	29.2°C	12 h 05	41	Good coverage
November	31.6°C	25.5°C	94 mm	7.4	29.2°C	12 h 03	44	Good coverage
December	31.4°C	25.4°C	168 mm	10.4	28.9°C	12 h 03	31	Good coverage

Records at TARAWA, 1979–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	33.6°C6 Jan 2005	19.0°C9 Jan 1981	400 mm7 Jan 1981	495 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2008	43
February	34.1°C1 Feb 2015	19.0°C9 Feb 1981	211 mm16 Feb 1987	540 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 2008	44
March	34.0°C3 Mar 2003	18.5°C16 Mar 2018	196 mm3 Mar 2019	839 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1998	46
April	34.5°C15 Apr 2016	19.0°C14 Apr 1981	154 mm8 Apr 2004	644 mm2019 · driest 6 mm in 1979	40
May	34.3°C4 May 2016	18.6°C14 May 2018	97 mm8 May 2004	408 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1995	42
June	34.5°C19 Jun 2016	19.0°C16 Jun 1980	130 mm24 Jun 2019	404 mm2023 · driest 6 mm in 1996	42
July	34.2°C2 Jul 2016	18.5°C31 Jul 2018	132 mm7 Jul 2025	392 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1981	43
August	33.5°C25 Aug 2006	19.0°C7 Aug 1980	152 mm9 Aug 1990	331 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 1995	41
September	36.1°C16 Sep 1982	18.6°C11 Sep 2018	102 mm12 Sep 2008	468 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2007	42
October	33.9°C26 Oct 2016	21.0°C20 Oct 1980	135 mm7 Oct 2006	421 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 1998	39
November	34.0°C23 Nov 2004	19.0°C25 Nov 1981	112 mm20 Nov 1986	349 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1995	41
December	34.0°C6 Dec 2014	19.0°C18 Dec 1981	143 mm24 Dec 2019	588 mm2023 · driest 1 mm in 1995	43

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

How often, not how much — every day in TARAWA’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	67%	37%	17%	47%	30.6–31.9°C
February	67%	32%	14%	42%	30.3–31.9°C
March	61%	40%	17%	62%	30.3–31.8°C
April	61%	41%	16%	54%	30.6–31.8°C
May	55%	41%	14%	50%	30.5–32.0°C
June	61%	39%	14%	52%	30.7–32.2°C
July	63%	39%	12%	55%	30.7–32.0°C
August	65%	32%	11%	36%	30.8–31.9°C
September	70%	30%	12%	40%	31.1–32.2°C
October	74%	24%	9%	24%	30.7–32.3°C
November	75%	25%	9%	33%	30.9–32.3°C
December	64%	36%	16%	52%	30.7–32.0°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 7601765
NOAA station: KR000091610 · TARAWA
Station distance: 14 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 15 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 1.35°, 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 TARAWA is what differs

Tarawa→Betio Village→Bikenibeu Village→Teaoraereke Village→Bairiki Village→Eita Village→

Or put two places side by side: Ambo Village vs Tarawa

Best time to visitAmbo Village.

November

November

November

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Ambo Village.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.