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Weather extremes
How extreme does Tarawa's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Tarawa 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 Tarawa has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 16°F hotter than a normal March afternoon in Tarawa (typical high near 88°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 22°F colder than a normal October night in Tarawa (typical low near 78°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 100% of a typical March's rain in a single day (Tarawa averages roughly 7.7 in across the month).
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.
Tarawa's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — March's 104°F is about 16°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 28 years of daily observations at Bonriki Intl, a weather station, about 20 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.