Climate averages 1991–2020

Nouméa weather
in January.

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

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

Average high 27.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 22.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 139 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Nouméa: daytime highs average 27.7°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 139 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 20 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Port-Vila (541 km away). In January its highs average 27.8°C, about as warm as Nouméa, with 186 mm of rain.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 139 mm to 143 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

Nouméa climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Nouméa, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.7°C22.8°C	22.8°C	139	15.1	13.313 h
February	28.1°C23.4°C	23.4°C	143	16.5	12.813 h
March	27.1°C23.0°C	23.0°C	188	18.9	12.212 h
April	25.6°C21.7°C	21.7°C	123	15.3	11.612 h
May	23.9°C19.9°C	19.9°C	99	11.4	11.111 h
June	22.5°C18.6°C	18.6°C	78	9.6	10.811 h
July	21.6°C17.4°C	17.4°C	64	8.2	10.911 h
August	21.6°C17.0°C	17.0°C	66	8.0	11.311 h
September	23.0°C17.5°C	17.5°C	48	6.8	11.912 h
October	24.5°C19.0°C	19.0°C	38	7.4	12.613 h
November	26.0°C20.3°C	20.3°C	65	8.5	13.213 h
December	27.3°C21.8°C	21.8°C	88	12.0	13.513 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.

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January in nearby cities

Distance from Nouméa

Port-Vila in JanuaryVanuatu · 541 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 25.9°C · 186 mm rain

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 Nouméa) is explained once on the Nouméa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.