Rotuma Airport

NFNR · Rotuma, Fiji

Climate Rotuma Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Nadi International Airport (NFFN) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 93.0 98 90 92 94 94
February 92.6 95 93 93 94 97
March 92.8 88 97 94 94 85
April 96.1 100 98 100 93
May 97.0 98 100 98 91
June 98.6 99 99 100 98
July 98.5 99 100 100 97
August 98.1 98 99 99 99
September 96.7 99 100 99 96
October 98.8 100 100 100 98
November 99.2 99 100 100 98
December 95.0 95 100 98 98
Average 95.9 93.3 97.0 97.6 97.8 95.2

1st best VFR conditions of Fiji

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 97.5 99 96 94 99 99
February 97.2 98 96 96 99 100
March 97.0 93 99 97 99 94
April 98.9 100 99 100 99
May 99.5 98 100 100 98
June 99.8 99 99 100 100
July 99.9 100 100 100 100
August 99.8 100 100 100 100
September 99.9 100 100 100 100
October 99.6 100 100 100 100
November 99.7 100 100 100 99
December 99.1 99 100 99 100
Average 98.7 96.5 98.8 98.6 99.4 98.9

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 31.1 31 31 31 31 31
February 31.1 31 31 31 31 32
March 30.5 30 31 31 30 30
April 30.7 31 31 31 31
May 29.7 30 30 30 30
June 28.8 28 29 28 30
July 28.7 27 30 29 29
August 28.8 28 30 28 30
September 29.5 29 30 30 30
October 30.2 30 30 31 30
November 30.6 31 30 31 31
December 31.0 32 31 31 31
Average 30.2 30.9 29.7 30.2 30.0 30.2

2nd highest temperature of Fiji

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 23.9 25 24 24 24 24
February 24.3 25 24 24 24 24
March 23.7 25 24 24 23 24
April 23.2 23 23 23 24
May 21.8 22 22 22 22
June 20.4 19 20 20 22
July 20.3 20 21 21 21
August 20.3 21 21 19 21
September 21.4 21 21 22 21
October 22.3 22 22 22 22
November 22.6 23 22 23 23
December 23.5 24 23 23 24
Average 22.6 24.6 22.2 22.3 22.3 22.6

2nd lowest temperature of Fiji

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 20.6 15 22 29 27 17
February 22.3 23 24 26 27 7
March 22.7 34 17 17 18 38
April 10.2 5 13 1 17
May 8.4 9 6 13 11
June 6.7 7 6 3 12
July 3.7 10 1 3 1
August 4.5 11 6 1 3
September 8.5 9 4 7 11
October 8.7 1 7 3 14
November 6.9 7 9 4 6
December 12.9 12 5 16 18
Average 13.1 24.1 11.3 11.4 10.5 13.2

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 9.0 9 9 10 9 10
February 8.5 8 8 8 8 10
March 7.8 7 9 8 8 8
April 8.3 8 8 9 9
May 8.0 8 8 8 8
June 8.1 7 7 8 9
July 9.0 8 9 10 9
August 9.7 9 10 10 10
September 10.0 10 11 10 10
October 6.1 7 6 6 7
November 5.9 8 5 5 6
December 9.1 10 9 8 9
Average 8.3 8.1 8.5 8.1 8.2 8.6

2nd highest wind speed of Fiji

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 312° 319° 340° 335° 278°
February 333° 348° 326° 317° 297°
March 317° 322° 334° 318° 322°
April 310° 309° 301° 277°
May 261° 272° 255° 269°
June 266° 288° 251° 259°
July 220° 303° 268° 264°
August 271° 297° 237° 281°
September 304° 294° 299° 276°
October 145° 143° 172° 129°
November 194° 285° 114° 330°
December 280° 277° 011° 283°

Prevailing wind direction

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