Pohnpei weather by month

The best time to visit Pohnpei is February, June and August — 72/100 in February, 29°C and 17 rainy days. It is good year-round: every month scores within a few points of the best.

The worst month is December at 64/100 — hot, soaked, clean air. See December →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

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Pohnpei🇫🇲 Micronesia · Micronesia · Island72
  1. 66Jan
  2. 72Feb
  3. 66Mar
  4. 66Apr
  5. 65May
  6. 67Jun
  7. 67Jul
  8. 68Aug
  9. 67Sep
  10. 66Oct
  11. 65Nov
  12. 64Dec

Good year-round · worst December (64/100)

Days
29°C
Nights
24°C
Wet days
17
Sun
10.2 h
Humidity
79%
Daylight
12 h
Pohnpei, Micronesia
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Pohnpei, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Pohnpei 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
Jan66C29°C21 d10 hShoulder1
Feb72B29°C17 d10 hBusy1
Mar66C29°C23 d10 hShoulder1
Apr66C29°C23 d10 hShoulder—
May65C29°C25 d9 hBusy1
Jun67C29°C24 d10 hBusy—
Jul67C30°C26 d10 hShoulder1
Aug68C30°C23 d10 hBusy1
Sep67C30°C22 d10 hBusy2
Oct66C30°C23 d9 hShoulder1
Nov65C29°C24 d9 hBusy3
Dec64C29°C24 d9 hQuiet1

What's on in Pohnpei through the year

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

May
  • FSM Constitution Day10 MayHoliday
July
  • Tropical storm months1 Jul – 30 Nov (usually)Hazard
September
  • Pohnpei Liberation Day11 SepHoliday
November
  • Pohnpei Constitution Day8 NovHoliday
  • North swell on the passes1 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)Season

Everything on in Pohnpei through the year →

Crowds in Pohnpei in February

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 Pohnpei

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

Forum posters describe Pohnpei bluntly as a place where it rains almost every single day, a direct consequence of the roughly 80% of the island covered in mountainous rainforest - genuinely one of the wettest inhabited places on Earth regardless of month. Posters consistently note that diving and boat tours can get rearranged around passing squalls, but that showers here tend to be heavy and brief rather than settling in for the whole day. Given how thin destination-specific monthly detail is on the forum, this note leans on that well-established year-round wet-tropical pattern: February sits within Pohnpei's relatively drier first-quarter stretch, but 'drier' here still means frequent rain is the norm, not the exception.
Tripadvisor community · February · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Forum posters describing diving conditions across Micronesia note the final months of the year bring the rainier stretch with murkier underwater visibility, implying the mid-year months including August offer comparatively better diving conditions. Posters are direct more broadly that Pohnpei is a place where it rains essentially every day regardless of season, a defining feature of its consistently wet, tropical climate rather than something unique to any one month. Given the limited destination-specific detail for August exactly, this note leans on that broader pattern: expect warm, humid conditions with regular daily rain, but with underwater visibility and overall conditions trending better than the wetter final quarter of the year. Posters generally rate August as reliably rainy but among the better months for diving-focused visits to Pohnpei.
Tripadvisor community · August · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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