1Port-Vila is the 90th warmest of 230 capitals by annual mean. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
2February is the hottest month here, averaging 88.3°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
3The highest reading in the archive is 101.1°F, on 9 March 2018, and it has stood for 7 years. Source: GHCN-Daily𝕏
Did you knowRecords here begin in 1985 at Efate/Bauerfield Intl, and the archive holds 20,139 daily values from it, counting each day's maximum and minimum separately.
Did you knowThe station files about 21 readings a day, via METAR reports from the aerodrome.
Did you knowThe thermometer sits 23 m above sea level, the 5th highest of 13 stations we hold in Vanuatu.
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 Port-Vila by annual mean.
February is the warmest month at Efate/Bauerfield Intl, averaging a daily high of 88.3°F. That is an average of every February day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Port-Vila?+−
July is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 80.2°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 40.1°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Port-Vila?+−
101.1°F, on 9 March 2018, in the record held for Efate/Bauerfield Intl. 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-Vila?+−
47.3°F, on 24 July 1986, 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 Efate/Bauerfield Intl. 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.
8.1°F between February and July, the 157th 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 13 Februarys, 1986 to 2025, this station's February average has risen about 0.5° 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: 99.5°F, in 1990. Today reached 84.2°F, 15.3°F short.
4Its best placing worldwide is 54th of 9,169 reporting stations, across the 49 days of rankings held so far. Source: Our own rankings · 49 day window𝕏
5It has reached the world's hottest 100 stations on 4 of those 49 days. Source: Our own rankings · 49 day window𝕏
66 of the last 7 days here passed 30°C. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
1July is the coolest month, averaging 80.2°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
2The year swings 8.1°F between its warmest and coolest months, the 157th widest of 230 capitals. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
3The widest single day we have recorded here spanned 19.8°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 Vanuatu its best placing is 1st of 11 stations, over the 49 days of rankings held. Source: Our own rankings · 49 day window𝕏
What is the weather in Port-Vila right now?+−
66.2°F at Efate/Bauerfield Intl, measured at 06:00 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 Port-Vila?+−
The archive held here for Port-Vila, Vanuatu starts in 1985, which is 40 years of record, and 20,139 stored daily values, each one a maximum or a minimum.
Which station measures Port-Vila's temperature?+−
Efate/Bauerfield Intl (NVVV), 23 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 METAR reports from the aerodrome 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 Port-Vila's record?+−
The record runs from 1985 to 2025, and it is not equally deep across the year: the thinnest of the 12 months has 13 years of readings behind its average and the fullest has 28. 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 Port-Vila getting hotter?+−
In its hottest month it has. Across 13 Februarys between 1986 and 2025, the average February high at Efate/Bauerfield Intl has risen about 0.5°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 Port-Vila compare with other capitals?+−
It is the 90th 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 157th by the width of its annual swing. Dodoma, San Juan, São Tomé sit closest to it on that ranking.
When is Port-Vila hottest?+−
February, averaging 88.3°F across the record, with July the coolest at 80.2°F. That is a swing of 8.1°F across the year.
Commentary: The atmosphere has accidentally got it exactly right.