Climate averages 1991–2020
Apia weather
in October.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 7th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Apia: daytime highs average 29.1°C and nights cool to about 25.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 226 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes October a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 24 min on an average October day.
From October to November, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 226 mm to 271 mm.
The annual picture
October in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Apia climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.5°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 360 | 27.8 | 12.813 h |
| February | 29.5°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 328 | 24.8 | 12.613 h |
| March | 29.7°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 271 | 27.3 | 12.212 h |
| April | 29.7°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 218 | 25.5 | 11.812 h |
| May | 29.1°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 207 | 24.4 | 11.511 h |
| June | 28.6°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 143 | 21.9 | 11.311 h |
| July | 28.3°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 138 | 21.0 | 11.411 h |
| August | 28.5°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 121 | 21.0 | 11.712 h |
| September | 28.9°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 160 | 21.9 | 12.012 h |
| October, selected | 29.1°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 226 | 25.0 | 12.412 h |
| November | 29.3°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 271 | 25.8 | 12.713 h |
| December | 29.4°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 346 | 27.4 | 12.913 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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Apia) is explained once on the Apia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.