Fakaofo (Atafu) weather by month

The best time to visit Fakaofo (Atafu) is March, August and November — 81/100 in August, 28°C and 21 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, May to September (78/100 on average).

The worst month is February at 60/100 — hot, soaked, clean air. See February →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

Fakaofo Tokelau · South Pacific · Island81
  1. 70Jan
  2. 60Feb
  3. 80Mar
  4. 74Apr
  5. 76May
  6. 78Jun
  7. 78Jul
  8. 81Aug
  9. 75Sep
  10. 73Oct
  11. 79Nov
  12. 69Dec

Best season: May to September (78/100 on average) · worst February (60/100)

Days
28°C
Nights
26°C
Wet days
21
Sun
10.6 h
Humidity
81%
Daylight
12 h
Fakaofo, Tokelau
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Fakaofo, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Fakaofo 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
Jan70B29°C22 d10 hBusy2
Feb60C28°C23 d8 hQuiet1
Mar80A28°C25 d11 hBusy1
Apr74B29°C25 d10 hShoulder1
May76B29°C25 d10 hShoulder—
Jun78B28°C22 d10 hShoulder—
Jul78B28°C23 d10 hShoulder—
Aug81A28°C21 d11 hBusy—
Sep75B28°C21 d11 hBusy1
Oct73B28°C23 d11 hBusy1
Nov79B28°C22 d11 hBusy1
Dec69C28°C22 d10 hBusy2

What's on in Fakaofo through the year

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

September
  • Tokehega Day3 SepHoliday
October
  • White Sunday8–14 Oct (usually)Holiday
November
  • Cyclone season1 Nov – 30 AprHazard
December
  • Christmas and New Year24 Dec – 2 JanHoliday

Crowds in Fakaofo in August

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.

Busyschool holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather(estimated)

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Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet

Traveller notes on Fakaofo

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

Forum coverage of Fakaofo and Tokelau's weather is essentially nonexistent given how few visitors reach this remote atoll group, accessible only by an infrequent supply ship from Samoa. Tokelau shares the same broad equatorial Pacific climate as nearby Samoa and Tuvalu, where March sits within the hotter, wetter half of the year (roughly November through April) rather than the relatively drier austral-winter months. Given the total absence of detailed trip reports, the safest guidance is the regional pattern itself: expect consistently warm, humid, showery tropical conditions typical of a low-lying equatorial atoll, with no real dry season to speak of and rain a normal daily possibility rather than an exception.
Tripadvisor community · March · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
There's essentially no independent travel-forum content on Fakaofo specifically - it's one of three atolls making up Tokelau, a New Zealand territory with no airport, reachable only by an infrequent supply ship from Samoa, and virtually no tourism infrastructure at all. That absence is itself the clearest signal about what visiting here looks like. Real climate data for September shows a classic equatorial atoll pattern: warm, humid days around 28C, steady trade winds averaging near 28kph, and rain spread across roughly two-thirds of the month's days rather than concentrated in a defined wet season - conditions that change little across the calendar.
TokelauAtollRegular · September · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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