Lahaina weather by month
The best time to visit Lahaina is May, June and September — 94/100 in May, 29°C and 5 rainy days. It is good year-round: every month scores within a few points of the best.
The worst month is December at 86/100 — warm, a little rain, clean air. See December →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
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Good year-round · worst December (86/100)
- Days
- 29°C
- Nights
- 21°C
- Wet days
- 5
- Sun
- 12 h
- Humidity
- 69%
- Daylight
- 13 h

Lahaina, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Lahaina 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 Lahaina 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 Lahaina in May
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.
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Traveller notes on Lahaina
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Lahaina's forum calls May a lovely time — neither too hot nor too cold, partly cloudy with scattered showers usually in the evening or early morning that leave plenty of beach time during the day. Regulars flag it as noticeably less crowded than summer, and note anyone heading up to Haleakalā for sunrise needs warm clothes regardless of how pleasant it is down on the coast.
June on Maui's west side is the month people describe as simply easy: 80s F, crowds not yet at their summer worst, and evenings cool enough for a light layer. On wind the forum and our row read differently and both are right - 27.9 kph here, while visitors staying on this coast report noticing no particular wind, because Lahaina sits in the island's lee. What arrives with a windless spell is vog, the volcanic haze that drifts up from the Big Island when the trades drop and the air turns hot and close. The other June fact is an absence: the humpbacks have gone, their season running mid-December to mid-April. The record: 30.4C days that feel like 32C, 21.7C nights, 2.6 precipitation days carrying 4mm, 12.5 hours of sun and a 26.5C sea.
Regulars are specific Lahaina itself is often singled out as the one spot on the island that essentially doesn't rain, genuinely hotter than most other areas, air conditioning the practical answer for anyone finding the heat too much. Our row backs that hot, genuinely dry read, 31.1C reading as a scorching 33C, over 22.5C nights feeling 24C, with rain minimal at 9.4mm across 3.1 days and humidity at 68 percent. Regulars are consistent this falls within hurricane season, the actual risk remote most years though a storm passing nearby can bring a few days of real wind and rain even on an otherwise dry-leaning month. Overnight lows rarely drop below 70F regardless. The sea sits at a bath-warm 27.2C. The record: 11.2 hours of sun, a 26.8 kph wind and AQI 25.
Forum posters describe November daytime highs commonly around 85F, with November marking the start of Hawaii's rainy season - though Lahaina itself, being on the leeward (drier) side of West Maui, sees notably less rain than wetter windward spots like nearby Napili. Posters describe the total monthly rainfall for Lahaina as modest, with some visitors reporting lovely, less-humid conditions and smaller crowds than the busier months, while others hit a stretch of genuinely heavy rain - real year-to-year variation posters are candid about. Wind tends to pick up somewhat compared to earlier fall months, though posters still call it warm and pleasant overall, with beaches generally in good shape and fewer people around than peak season.
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