Port Moresby
It is 77.0°F at PORT MORESBY W.O., 22:00 local on Monday. Port Moresby is the 26th hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean, and the 124th hottest capital right now.
22:00 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: WMO SYNOP bulletins
Normal for this date here is a high of 88.5°F.
Wednesday, 25 December 2002
Source: GHCN-Daily
Friday, 24 August 1990
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 92.1°F, set in 1988. Today reached 84.6°F.
The whole record bookKuwait City, at 114.8°F. The two ends of the capitals table right now.
See Kuwait CityWhere Port Moresby stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #26
- of 139
- Among capitals, right now
- #124
- of 213 reporting
- Hottest month
- November
- 90.3°F
- Widest annual swing
- #119
- of 139
Port Moresby by month
Normal high · record high · record low- Jan89.6°FHigh 99.0°F · 12 Jan 1983Low 65.8°F · 13 Jan 1992
- Feb88.9°FHigh 95.9°F · 14 Feb 1988Low 68.0°F · 22 Feb 1997
- Mar88.2°FHigh 95.2°F · 2 Mar 1996Low 65.1°F · 1 Mar 1991
- Apr88.3°FHigh 93.2°F · 7 Apr 1978Low 66.7°F · 22 Apr 1976
- May87.6°FHigh 95.4°F · 11 May 1981Low 63.5°F · 31 May 1997
- Jun86.5°FHigh 94.1°F · 27 Jun 1987Low 62.6°F · 20 Jun 1982
- Jul
Nearby, hottest and coldest
6 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Port Moresby by annual mean.
- Santo Domingo 88.5°F
- Panama City 88.3°F
- Tarawa 88.3°F
- Dhaka 88.0°F
- Manama 88.0°F
- Funafuti 87.8°F
How Port Moresby’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in Port Moresby?
The archive held here for Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea starts in 1970, which is 33 years of record, across 24,433 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures Port Moresby's temperature?
PORT MORESBY W.O. (WMO 92035), 57 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 Port Moresby?
101.1°F, on 25 December 2002, in the record held for PORT MORESBY W.O.. 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 Port Moresby?
58.3°F, on 24 August 1990, 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 PORT MORESBY W.O.. 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.