Tarawa
It is 84.9°F at Tarawa, 18:00 local on Monday. Tarawa is the 24th hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean.
18:00 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: WMO SYNOP bulletins
Normal for this date here is a high of 88.7°F.
Thursday, 16 September 1982
Source: GHCN-Daily
Friday, 16 March 2018
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 92.5°F, set in 2016. Today reached 88.3°F.
The whole record bookWhere Tarawa stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #24
- of 139
- Hottest month
- November
- 89.2°F
- Widest annual swing
- #136
- of 139
Tarawa by month
Normal high · record high · record low- Jan88.3°FHigh 92.5°F · 6 Jan 2005Low 66.2°F · 8 Jan 1981
- Feb88.3°FHigh 93.4°F · 1 Feb 2015Low 66.2°F · 5 Feb 1981
- Mar87.4°FHigh 93.2°F · 3 Mar 2003Low 65.3°F · 16 Mar 2018
- Apr88.3°FHigh 94.1°F · 15 Apr 2016Low 66.2°F · 14 Apr 1981
- May88.2°FHigh 93.7°F · 4 May 2016Low 65.5°F · 14 May 2018
- Jun88.0°FHigh 94.1°F · 19 Jun 2016Low 66.2°F · 12 Jun 1980
- Jul
Nearby, hottest and coldest
7 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Tarawa by annual mean.
- Willemstad 88.7°F
- Santo Domingo 88.5°F
- Panama City 88.3°F
- Port Moresby 88.2°F
- Dhaka 88.0°F
- Manama 88.0°F
How Tarawa’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in Tarawa?
The archive held here for Tarawa, Kiribati starts in 1976, which is 49 years of record, across 16,846 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures Tarawa's temperature?
Tarawa (NGTA), 2 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 Tarawa?
97.0°F, on 16 September 1982, in the record held for Tarawa. 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 Tarawa?
65.3°F, on 16 March 2018, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
How is the temperature measured and checked?
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from WMO SYNOP bulletins at Tarawa. 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.