Climate averages 1991–2020

Palikir weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 27.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 25.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 217 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Palikir: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 25.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 217 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 46 min on an average January day.

From January to February, average highs stay level at 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 217 mm to 183 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Palikir climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Palikir, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.5°C25.6°C	25.6°C	217	21.1	11.812 h
February	27.4°C25.6°C	25.6°C	183	17.9	11.912 h
March	27.6°C25.6°C	25.6°C	223	20.5	12.112 h
April	27.7°C25.6°C	25.6°C	265	23.8	12.312 h
May	27.7°C25.6°C	25.6°C	318	26.3	12.412 h
June	27.7°C25.5°C	25.5°C	307	27.2	12.513 h
July	27.5°C25.3°C	25.3°C	316	28.8	12.512 h
August	27.6°C25.3°C	25.3°C	289	27.3	12.312 h
September	27.7°C25.4°C	25.4°C	274	26.0	12.212 h
October	27.7°C25.4°C	25.4°C	307	27.1	12.012 h
November	27.7°C25.6°C	25.6°C	294	25.8	11.812 h
December	27.7°C25.7°C	25.7°C	289	24.8	11.712 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Palikir) is explained once on the Palikir year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.