West Island
It is 79.7°F at Cocos Island Airport, 18:30 local on Monday. West Island is the 56th hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean, and the 103rd hottest capital right now.
18:30 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: WMO SYNOP bulletins
Normal for this date here is a high of 82.9°F.
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Source: GHCN-Daily
Sunday, 21 August 1955
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 85.8°F, set in 2010. Today reached 83.8°F.
The whole record bookUlan Bator, at 32.0°F. The two ends of the capitals table right now.
See Ulan BatorWhere West Island stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #56
- of 139
- Among capitals, right now
- #103
- of 213 reporting
- Hottest month
- March
- 86.0°F
- Widest annual swing
- #127
- of 139
West Island by month
Normal high · record high · record low- Jan85.6°FHigh 91.6°F · 27 Jan 2025Low 69.8°F · 2 Jan 2007
- Feb85.8°FHigh 91.0°F · 23 Feb 2017Low 68.2°F · 28 Feb 1966
- Mar · warmest86.0°FHigh 90.9°F · 21 Mar 1998Low 67.6°F · 11 Mar 1984
- Apr85.5°FHigh 91.0°F · 11 Apr 1998Low 67.3°F · 16 Apr 1966
- May84.7°FHigh 89.6°F · 8 May 2023Low 66.9°F · 16 May 1965
- Jun83.3°FHigh 89.6°F · 1 Jun 2025Low 68.2°F · 24 Jun 1968
- Jul
Nearby, hottest and coldest
8 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than West Island by annual mean.
How West Island’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in West Island?
The archive held here for West Island, Cocos Islands starts in 1952, which is 73 years of record, across 48,164 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures West Island's temperature?
Cocos Island Airport (YPCC), 3 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 West Island?
91.8°F, on 3 December 2024, in the record held for Cocos Island Airport. 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 West Island?
64.9°F, on 21 August 1955, 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 Cocos Island Airport. 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.