Funafuti weather by month

The best time to visit Funafuti is March, September and November — 78/100 in March, 32°C and 24 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, March to November (75/100 on average).

The worst month is February at 59/100 — sweltering, soaked, clean air. See February →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

Funafuti🇹🇻 Tuvalu · South Pacific · Island78
  1. 68Jan
  2. 59Feb
  3. 78Mar
  4. 73Apr
  5. 71May
  6. 75Jun
  7. 75Jul
  8. 71Aug
  9. 76Sep
  10. 76Oct
  11. 78Nov
  12. 65Dec

Best season: March to November (75/100 on average) · worst February (59/100)

Days
32°C
Nights
26°C
Wet days
24
Sun
10.6 h
Humidity
81%
Daylight
12 h
Funafuti, Tuvalu
Photo: Michael Coghlan · CC BY-SA 2.0

Funafuti, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Funafuti 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
Jan68C32°C24 d10 hQuiet2
Feb59D32°C22 d8 hQuiet2
Mar78B32°C24 d11 hBusy2
Apr73B32°C24 d10 hBusy2
May71B32°C25 d10 hBusy1
Jun75B32°C23 d10 hShoulder—
Jul75B32°C24 d10 hShoulder—
Aug71B32°C24 d10 hBusy1
Sep76B32°C23 d11 hBusy—
Oct76B32°C23 d11 hPeak2
Nov78B32°C22 d11 hBusy1
Dec65C32°C25 d10 hQuiet1

What's on in Funafuti through the year

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

January
  • King tides15 Jan – 20 Mar (usually)Season
April
  • Te Aso o te Paula23 AprHoliday
May
  • Gospel Day8–16 May (usually)Holiday
August
  • National Children's Day1–7 Aug (usually)Holiday
October
  • Tuvalu Day1–2 OctHoliday
  • Cyclone Day21 OctHoliday
November
  • Cyclone season1 Nov – 30 AprHazard

Everything on in Funafuti through the year →

Crowds in Funafuti in March

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.

Busyone of its best months for weather(estimated)

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Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet

Traveller notes on Funafuti

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

Detailed monthly trip reports for this remote atoll nation are scarce on the forum, but posters consistently describe Tuvalu's climate as warm year-round with little day-to-night temperature swing, naming January as the wettest, stormiest part of the year rather than June. Posters also flag king tides around February-March as a real seasonal flooding risk on the low-lying main island, a hazard tied to that period rather than to June. Given the thin trip-report coverage specific to Funafuti, this note leans on posters' broader description of Tuvalu's consistently hot, humid tropical pattern - June sits outside both the January rains and the February-March king-tide window, though frequent showers remain part of the deal on a coral atoll this close to the equator.
Tripadvisor community · June · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Forum posters describe Funafuti's climate as warm essentially year-round with little day-to-night or seasonal temperature swing, consistent with its low-lying equatorial Pacific setting. One traveler specifically flagged visiting during the wet season as a genuine logistical misstep, since wet-season conditions contributed to fuel shortages that made reaching Tuvalu's outer islands difficult. Given the limited destination-specific detail available for December exactly, this note leans on that broader pattern: December sits within Tuvalu's wetter stretch, with real potential for the kind of supply and inter-island transport disruptions the forum post describes. Posters generally rate December as warm and humid with genuine wet-season logistics to plan around for Funafuti, especially any outer-island travel.
Tripadvisor community · December · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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