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Weather extremes
How extreme does Flying Fish Cove's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Flying Fish Cove has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Flying Fish Cove has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 9°F hotter than a normal March afternoon in Flying Fish Cove (typical high near 83°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 17°F colder than a normal September night in Flying Fish Cove (typical low near 72°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Flying Fish Cove usually gets in the whole month of November (typical November total about 2.0 in).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Flying Fish Cove's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — March's 92°F is about 9°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 26 years of daily observations at Christmas Island, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.