Funafuti weather in November
November in Funafuti: sweltering, soaked, with clean air — fine if you can take 22 rainy days.
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
#2 of 12 months in Funafuti · #511 of 1413 destinations to visit in November · comfort 78/100 (tier B)
- Days
- 32°C
- Nights
- 26°C
- Wet days
- 22
- Sun
- 10.9 h
- Humidity
- 79%
- Daylight
- 13 h

Traveller notes on Funafuti in November
Other months in Funafuti
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.
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.
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Funafuti climate normals — November
Monthly averages from ERA5 reanalysis. AQI is the mean US Air Quality Index for the month.
Crowds in Funafuti in November
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)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Best months for Funafuti's weather
Ranked by this destination's own climate comfort score across the year — a different thing from how busy it gets (see Crowds above).
Fair weatherFunafuti's weather doesn't swing hard through the year — comfort stays fairly steady in every month.
What's on in Funafuti in November
Recurring seasonal events, natural spectacles, closures and holidays — curated and sourced.
- Hazard
Cyclone season
1 Nov – 30 AprThe South Pacific season runs November to April. Tuvalu sits east of where most systems form, but there is nowhere on the atoll more than a few metres above the sea, so a near miss still means surge across the road. Source ↗
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Funafuti in November — FAQ
- Is November a good time to visit Funafuti?
- November in Funafuti: sweltering, soaked, with clean air — fine if you can take 22 rainy days. It ranks #2 of 12 months for Funafuti on SeasonMap's comfort score (78/100).
- What is the weather like in Funafuti in November?
- In November, Funafuti averages a daily high of 32.3°C and a low of 26.1°C, with about 181.2 mm of rain over roughly 22.2 rainy days.
- What is the air quality in Funafuti in November?
- Funafuti has a mean US Air Quality Index of about 22 in November.