Avarua
It is 68.0°F at Cook Isl/Rarotonga Arpt, 02:30 local on Monday. Avarua is the 67th hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean, and the 163rd hottest capital right now.
02:30 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Normal for this date here is a high of 79.3°F.
Friday, 4 May 1979
Source: GHCN-Daily
Monday, 3 September 2012
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 84.2°F, set in 1979. Today reached 71.6°F.
The whole record bookKuwait City, at 114.8°F. The two ends of the capitals table right now.
See Kuwait CityWhere Avarua stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #67
- of 139
- Among capitals, right now
- #163
- of 213 reporting
- Hottest month
- February
- 85.5°F
- Widest annual swing
- #95
- of 139
Avarua by month
Normal high · record high · record low- Jan84.0°FHigh 91.2°F · 28 Jan 2000Low 64.4°F · 1 Jan 1981
- Feb · warmest85.5°FHigh 96.8°F · 13 Feb 1980Low 64.8°F · 26 Feb 2012
- Mar85.1°FHigh 93.6°F · 20 Mar 2001Low 62.6°F · 29 Mar 2016
- Apr83.1°FHigh 91.8°F · 18 Apr 1999Low 58.6°F · 2 Apr 2012
- May80.6°FHigh 96.8°F · 4 May 1979Low 58.6°F · 11 May 1998
- Jun78.8°FHigh 89.6°F · 16 Jun 2012Low 54.3°F · 19 Jun 2025
- Jul
Nearby, hottest and coldest
4 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Avarua by annual mean.
- Saint-Denis 82.0°F
- Dakar 81.9°F
- Hanoi 81.9°F
- Flying Fish Cove 81.1°F
- Hong Kong 79.0°F
- Damascus 78.6°F
How Avarua’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in Avarua?
The archive held here for Avarua, Cook Islands starts in 1979, which is 46 years of record, across 19,131 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures Avarua's temperature?
Cook Isl/Rarotonga Arpt (NCRG), 7 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Avarua?
96.8°F, on 4 May 1979, in the record held for Cook Isl/Rarotonga Arpt. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Avarua?
50.9°F, on 3 September 2012, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at Cook Isl/Rarotonga Arpt. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.