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Nouméa's weather extremes

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Nouméa has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do. This station's daily record ended in 2023, so these are historical extremes from that period, not records updated to today.

Based on 32 years of daily weather observations (1991–2023), from the Noumea station. Updated through December 2023 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Nouméa has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day
98°F Feb 1, 1991

That is about 12°F hotter than a normal February afternoon in Nouméa (typical high near 86°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 98°F Feb 1, 1991
2 98°F Mar 1, 1993
3 96°F Mar 10, 1995
❄️ Coldest night
49°F Sep 18, 2010

About 15°F colder than a normal September night in Nouméa (typical low near 65°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 49°F Sep 18, 2010
2 56°F Oct 10, 1993
3 57°F Jul 21, 1994
🌧️ Most rain in one day
6.65 in Oct 3, 2001

More rain in a single day than Nouméa usually gets in the whole month of October (typical October total about 1.4 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 6.65 in Oct 3, 2001
2 6.02 in Apr 8, 1992
3 5.47 in Mar 25, 2009

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.

30°50°70°90°110° all-time high 98°F JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
normal range of daily temperatureshottest ever recordedcoldest ever recorded

Nouméa's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — February's 98°F is about 12°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

In a normal year, Nouméa's warmest days reach the mid-80s°F and its coldest nights drop to the low 60s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 98°F and as low as 49°F. A single day has delivered over 7 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 25 years of daily observations at Noumea, a weather station, inside the city. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →