Assumption Island Airport

FSAS · Seychelles

Climate Assumption Island Airport 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Dzaoudzi Pamandzi International Airport (FMCZ) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 85.7 82 83 91 88 82
February 85.6 83 81 87 82 88
March 87.6 86 82 89 85 93
April 88.7 86 89 90 87 89
May 89.6 88 90 89 91 85
June 90.2 87 93 88 87 87
July 90.1 94 88 85 91 84
August 88.8 87 88 88 89 86
September 89.8 92 91 86 90
October 86.3 80 88 85 80
November 81.9 89 78 73 80
December 86.0 87 78 90 87
Average 87.5 86.4 86.6 86.7 85.9 85.8

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 97.7 98 98 98 97 97
February 97.6 97 98 99 96 98
March 98.7 99 99 99 98 98
April 99.1 99 98 99 99 100
May 99.7 99 100 100 100 100
June 99.3 100 98 99 99 99
July 99.7 99 99 99 100 100
August 99.8 99 100 100 100 100
September 99.5 99 99 100 100
October 99.2 100 99 100 98
November 99.1 100 99 98 99
December 98.3 98 100 99 99
Average 99.0 98.8 98.8 99.0 98.7 98.8

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 30.9 31 31 31 31 31
February 31.2 32 31 31 31 31
March 31.5 33 32 31 31 32
April 31.7 33 32 32 31 32
May 30.8 31 31 31 30 31
June 29.6 30 30 29 29 30
July 28.5 29 29 28 28 28
August 28.7 29 29 28 29 28
September 29.2 30 28 29 29
October 30.3 32 30 30 30
November 31.2 33 30 31 31
December 31.4 32 31 32 31
Average 30.4 30.9 30.9 29.9 30.0 30.3

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 25.3 25 25 26 25 26
February 25.3 25 26 26 26 26
March 25.9 26 26 26 26 26
April 26.0 27 26 26 26 26
May 25.2 26 25 25 24 25
June 23.8 25 21 24 24 25
July 22.7 21 23 22 23 23
August 22.1 22 23 21 22 22
September 22.7 23 22 23 23
October 24.1 25 23 24 24
November 24.9 26 25 25 25
December 25.8 25 26 26 26
Average 24.5 24.6 24.5 24.1 24.3 24.7

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 21.6 37 22 21 27 19
February 20.1 30 27 25 23 22
March 18.0 29 28 23 17 18
April 14.5 29 21 18 16 10
May 4.9 9 13 6 2 2
June 4.1 6 5 4 5 4
July 3.2 3 4 12 2 4
August 3.3 9 5 7 3 1
September 8.3 14 12 7 3
October 13.1 15 15 20 17
November 15.9 28 14 19 17
December 18.2 31 16 17 16
Average 12.5 19.4 18.1 14.6 13.5 11.3

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 8.6 11 10 8 7 8
February 7.3 8 7 9 8 7
March 7.3 7 8 7 7 7
April 7.7 8 7 8 7 8
May 10.2 12 9 10 11 11
June 11.1 12 9 12 11 12
July 11.9 10 12 11 12 14
August 9.2 10 9 9 9 9
September 7.9 7 8 8 9
October 7.5 8 7 8 7
November 7.4 8 8 7 7
December 6.9 7 7 6 7
Average 8.6 9.5 8.2 8.5 8.4 8.7

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 294° 337° 302° 312° 317°
February 311° 044° 290° 360° 284°
March 124° 353° 263° 305° 211°
April 162° 165° 162° 165° 154°
May 155° 183° 173° 180° 170°
June 163° 170° 158° 166° 159°
July 168° 163° 148° 157° 163°
August 160° 166° 152° 160° 163°
September 153° 165° 160° 164°
October 071° 099° 106° 023°
November 125° 028° 036° 006°
December 329° 027° 061° 339°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.