1Flying Fish Cove is the 114th warmest of 230 capitals by annual mean. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
2March is the hottest month here, averaging 82.9°F, which is before midsummer rather than in it. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
3The highest reading in the archive is 91.6°F, on 18 March 2011, and it has stood for 14 years.
Did you knowRecords here begin in 1972 at Christmas Island Aerodrome, and the archive holds 27,537 daily values from it, counting each day's maximum and minimum separately.
Did you knowThe station files about 4 readings a day, via WMO SYNOP bulletins.
Did you knowThe thermometer sits 279 m above sea level, the 1st highest of 3 stations we hold in Christmas Island.
Did you knowReadings are recorded in Celsius. Any Fahrenheit figure on this page is a conversion, not a separate measurement.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Flying Fish Cove by annual mean.
How Flying Fish Cove’s temperature has been recorded
How hot does it get in Flying Fish Cove?+−
March is the warmest month at Christmas Island Aerodrome, averaging a daily high of 82.9°F. That is an average of every March day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Flying Fish Cove?+−
August is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 78.8°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 36.1°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Flying Fish Cove?+−
91.6°F, on 18 March 2011, in the record held for Christmas Island Aerodrome. 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 Flying Fish Cove?+−
63.0°F, on 10 July 1978, 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 WMO SYNOP bulletins at Christmas Island Aerodrome. 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.
4.1°F between March and August, the 205th widest swing among the 230 capitals ranked here. The big figure on each card is the average high for that month across the whole record; the two lines beneath it are the hottest and coldest days ever recorded in it.
Across 40 Marchs, 1973 to 2025, this station's March average has risen about 0.2° per decade. A fit through this station's own record, not a climate finding. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily, per station per year per month
📅 On this day here · 31 OctoberRecord for the date: 86.0°F, in 1983. Today reached 76.8°F, 9.2°F short.
4Its best placing worldwide is 579th of 9,009 reporting stations, across the 50 days of rankings held so far. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
1August is the coolest month, averaging 78.8°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
2The year swings 4.1°F between its warmest and coolest months, the 205th widest of 230 capitals. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
3The widest single day we have recorded here spanned 6.3°F, on 11 November 2026. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
4It has not dropped below freezing on any of the last 7 days. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
5Within Christmas Island its best placing is 1st of 3 stations, over the 50 days of rankings held. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
What is the weather in Flying Fish Cove right now?+−
76.8°F at Christmas Island Aerodrome, measured at 07:00 local on Friday, 13 November 2026. This is the live reading from the station this page reads, after our quality checks. It is an observation rather than a forecast: it says what the weather IS, not what it will be.
When did temperature records begin in Flying Fish Cove?+−
The archive held here for Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island starts in 1972, which is 53 years of record, and 27,537 stored daily values, each one a maximum or a minimum.
Which station measures Flying Fish Cove's temperature?+−
Christmas Island Aerodrome (YPXM), 279 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.
How is the temperature measured and checked?+−
Readings arrive from WMO SYNOP bulletins and are quality controlled before they appear: a value outside a plausible range, or one that jumps further than air can move in the time between readings, is rejected rather than published. Every figure shows its source and the time it was observed.
Are there gaps in Flying Fish Cove's record?+−
The record runs from 1972 to 2025, and it is not equally deep across the year: the thinnest of the 12 months has 30 years of readings behind its average and the fullest has 40. Gaps are left as gaps: a month the archive never covered is omitted rather than filled in, which is why some months on this page carry no record.
Is Flying Fish Cove getting hotter?+−
In its hottest month it has. Across 40 Marchs between 1973 and 2025, the average March high at Christmas Island Aerodrome has risen about 0.2°F per decade. That is a straight-line fit through this one station's record: it is not corrected for a station that moved or changed instrument, and it is a description of the readings rather than a climate attribution.
How does Flying Fish Cove compare with other capitals?+−
It is the 114th warmest of the 230 capital cities with a full twelve months of record here, ranked on annual mean rather than on any single day, and 205th by the width of its annual swing. Windhoek, Brasília, Avarua sit closest to it on that ranking.
When is Flying Fish Cove hottest?+−
March, averaging 82.9°F across the record, with August the coolest at 78.8°F. That is a swing of 4.1°F across the year.
Commentary: Warm enough for the first serious debate about opening the pool.