Adamstown (Pitcairn) weather by month

The best time to visit Adamstown (Pitcairn) is January, February and November — 84/100 in January, 25°C and 13 rainy days. It is good year-round: every month scores within a few points of the best.

The worst month is July at 78/100 — nice, rainy, clean air. See July →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

Adamstown Pitcairn Islands · South Pacific · Island84
  1. 84Jan
  2. 83Feb
  3. 81Mar
  4. 80Apr
  5. 80May
  6. 79Jun
  7. 78Jul
  8. 80Aug
  9. 83Sep
  10. 83Oct
  11. 84Nov
  12. 82Dec

Good year-round · worst July (78/100)

Days
25°C
Nights
24°C
Wet days
13
Sun
11.3 h
Humidity
80%
Daylight
14 h
Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands
Photo: Makemake at de · CC BY-SA 3.0

Adamstown, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Adamstown is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.

MonthScoreTierHighRainSunCrowdsOn
Jan84A25°C13 d11 hPeak4
Feb83A25°C15 d11 hBusy3
Mar81A25°C18 d10 hBusy3
Apr80A24°C15 d9 hShoulder2
May80A23°C12 d9 hShoulder2
Jun79B22°C10 d8 hQuiet2
Jul78B21°C10 d8 hQuiet2
Aug80A21°C10 d9 hQuiet2
Sep83A21°C11 d10 hShoulder2
Oct83A22°C11 d10 hBusy3
Nov84A23°C11 d11 hBusy3
Dec82A24°C14 d11 hBusy3

What's on in Adamstown through the year

Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.

January
  • Bounty Day23 JanHoliday
  • Landing depends on the swell1 Jan – 31 DecRule
  • Quarterly ship from Mangareva1 Jan – 31 DecRule
October
  • Cruise ship days1 Oct – 31 Mar (usually)Season

Crowds in Adamstown in January

How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.

Peak crowdsBounty Day, Cruise ship days, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it(estimated)

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Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet

Traveller notes on Adamstown

What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.

Trip reports for Adamstown, the only settlement on Pitcairn Island and home to fewer than 50 people, are extremely thin on the forum, and what discussion exists focuses almost entirely on whether ocean swells allow tenders to land at all rather than on air temperature - posters describe ships passing by unable to put passengers ashore because of rough seas, and visits getting cut short when the sea turns rough in the afternoon. Given how little destination-specific weather detail exists, this note is grounded in the well-established regional pattern for this remote South Pacific island: a warm, humid, fairly stable tropical-to-subtropical climate year-round, with January falling in the hotter, more humid half of the year. The real planning risk here is less about temperature and much more about whether swell conditions permit a landing at all.
Tripadvisor community · January · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Pitcairn's forum is mostly logistics questions about the supply ship, not weather chat, so there isn't much first-hand July commentary out there. What I can say from the island's own climate record is that July sits in Pitcairn's cooler, breezier season - daytime highs in the low 20s C rather than the muggier low-30s heat visitors describe for the southern summer months. Expect a stiff onshore wind most days and a shower or two, but nothing like a tropical downpour; the sea stays swimmable even if it's a notch cooler than peak summer.
SouthPacificSailor · July · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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