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The climate of Papeete (French Polynesia)
Papeete is the capital and the largest city of French Polynesia. Papeete is located in the island Tahiti. The city has more than 100,000 inhabitants, a large part of them come from France. It is the primary center of Tahitian and French Polynesian public and private, governmental, commercial, industrial and financial services, the hub of French Polynesian tourism and a commonly used port of call. The international airport of Papeete is the only connection to other countries. If you travel to French Polynesia you will almost always have to do so via Papeete.
According to the Köppen-Geiger climate classification Papeete has a tropical monsoon climate (type Am). Daytime temperatures are around 30 degrees Celsius. During the night temperatures slowly drop to 20-22 degrees Celsius. Papeete gets 1,900 millimeters of annual precipitation on average. Rain mostly falls in the form of showers. However, during the monsoon there is a chance of longer rainy periods. December, January and February are the wettest months with about 300 millimeters of rain per month.

Climate information
The figures below are based on long term weather and climate records. They are an average for Papeete:
Please, note that local deviations may occur.

	average  maximum temperature (°C)	average minimum temperature (°C)	average hours of sunshine per day	average days with precipitation per month	average mm precipitation per month	average sea temperature (°C)
January	32	22	7	18		28
February	32	22	7	18		28
March	32	22	7	19		29
April	32	22	8	14		29
May	31	21	7	10		28
June	30	21	7	7		27
July	30	20	8	6		27
August	30	20	8	5		26
September	30	21	8	6		26
October	31	21	8	6		27
November	31	22	7	7		27
December	31	22	6	13		28
= 0-5 mm ● = 6-30 mm ● = 31-60 mm ● = 61-100 mm ● = 101-200 mm ● = over 200 mm = 0-0.2 inches ● = 0.2-1.2 inches ● = 1.2-2.4 inches ● = 2.5-4 inches ● = 4.1-8 inches ● = over 8 inches

More climate information
Climate figures are very useful but don’t present a general impression of the climate and the eventual weather circumstances within a certain period. The figures don’t always reflect the chance of wintry weather, extreme heat or hurricanes. That is why we offer useful extra climate information for each month of the year:

	chance of (very) hot weather	chance of (very) cool weather	chance of long-term precipitation	chance of hurricanes (cyclones)	chance of sunny days	UV-index
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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