Talofofo
13.35° N, 144.75° E
When to go?
Mean 27 °C, 19 rain days in the month (89 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 28 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
Mean 26 °C, 16 rain days in the month (67 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 28 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 27 °C
Mean 27 °C, 15 rain days in the month (62 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 28 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
Mean 27 °C, 17 rain days in the month (88 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 28 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
Mean 28 °C, 20 rain days in the month (101 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 29 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 6 days in 10
Mean 28 °C, 24 rain days in the month (168 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 29 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
Mean 27 °C, 29 rain days in the month (285 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
Mean 27 °C, 29 rain days in the month (359 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
- Torrential rain12 mm per rain day
Mean 27 °C, 28 rain days in the month (333 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
- Torrential rain12 mm per rain day
Mean 27 °C, 29 rain days in the month (305 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
- Often rainyrain on 9 days in 10
- Torrential rain11 mm per rain day
- Typhoonsone within 300 km, 1 year in 4
Mean 28 °C, 24 rain days in the month (185 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 29 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
- Typhoonsone within 300 km, 1 year in 5
Mean 27 °C, 21 rain days in the month (111 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 29 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 28 °C
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
No ideal month: the best months are February–March, the least hot. Ideal for the sea: November–June. Avoid November–December (hot and often rainy, at times typhoons), August–October (hot and often rainy and torrential rain, at times typhoons), April–July (hot, at times often rainy), January (hot).
What is the climate like?
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Daylight and sky: sunrise, sunset and cloud cover
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
Times on the 15th of each month, in local time: daylight saving where and when it applies, standard time in the other months.
Sea temperature: Philippine Sea
Monthly mean sea temperature: Philippine Sea (°C)
Monthly mean sea temperature: Philippine Sea (°C)
Effect of climate change
Today's climate (1996–2025) compared with 1961–1990:
In short
Year by year
Temperature of each year
Against 1961–1990 the mean temperature of today (1996–2025) has changed by +0.5 °C; in the last ten years by +0.7 °C. Warmest year: 2024 (+0.9 °C), coldest: 1992 (−0.3 °C).
January and February warmed the most (+0.5 and +0.5 °C), October the least (+0.3 °C).
Warming stripes: after an idea by Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), showyourstripes.info, CC BY 4.0.
Rain of each year (% against 1961–1990)
more rain than in 1961–1990less rain
Rain in a year: no clear trend, dry and wet years alternate as before.
The sea, then and now
+0.5 °Cthe sea today, compared with 1961–1990