Flying Fish Cove (The Settlement) weather by month
The best time to visit Flying Fish Cove (The Settlement) is July to September — 89/100 in August, 27°C and 7 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, May to October (86/100 on average).
The worst month is January at 74/100 — hot, soaked, clean air. See January →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Best season: May to October (86/100 on average) · worst January (74/100)
- Days
- 27°C
- Nights
- 23°C
- Wet days
- 7
- Sun
- 10.8 h
- Humidity
- 77%
- Daylight
- 12 h
Flying Fish Cove, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Flying Fish Cove 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.
What's on in Flying Fish Cove through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Flying Fish Cove 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 4 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Flying Fish Cove
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
There isn't much March-specific forum detail for Flying Fish Cove, but the island's wet season runs roughly December through April, so March sits squarely in it - a nearby thread about the wet season generally summed up the local attitude well: it won't stop you from hiking or diving, and getting rained on somewhere this warm is more refreshing than a nuisance. The destination's own climate record backs that up with frequent, warm showers rather than anything approaching a washout month, and the diving and red-crab-season scenery stay a big draw regardless of the rain.
Forum posters flag September-October as a genuinely unique feature of a Christmas Island visit: the famous red crab migration, when the sheer number of crabs moving toward the sea to spawn is prolific enough to force road closures across the island. Posters consistently name this drier stretch of the year, ahead of the wet season that sets in around December, as a favorable window weather-wise for exploring both Flying Fish Cove and the island's national park. Posters generally recommend planning around the migration itself as much as the weather, since road access can be genuinely affected by crab movement during a September visit regardless of how clear the skies are.
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