Arutua Airport

NTGU · French Polynesia

Climate Arutua Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Faa'a International Airport (NTAA) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 96.1 98 95 93 99 99
February 93.1 78 100 100 98 96
March 98.5 100 98 99 98 99
April 97.4 89 99 99 100 98
May 97.5 91 100 99 98 99
June 99.1 99 100 100 100 99
July 97.4 90 92 99 100 100
August 98.3 99 97 99 98 98
September 99.0 97 97 100 99 100
October 97.4 95 96 100 95 94
November 97.7 98 97 100 96
December 95.9 97 95 99 94
Average 97.2 93.5 97.2 98.2 98.5 97.4

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 98.4 99 98 98 100 100
February 98.3 98 100 100 99 97
March 99.4 100 100 99 100 99
April 98.3 90 100 99 100 100
May 98.5 93 100 100 99 100
June 99.6 99 100 100 100 100
July 99.2 99 96 100 100 100
August 99.8 100 100 100 100 99
September 99.7 99 100 100 100 100
October 99.1 99 98 100 97 99
November 99.3 99 99 100 98
December 98.7 99 99 99 99
Average 99.0 97.6 99.0 99.4 99.3 99.2

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 30.7 31 30 30 31 31
February 30.9 31 31 31 30 31
March 31.3 32 31 31 32 32
April 31.1 31 31 31 31 32
May 30.4 30 30 30 31 31
June 29.4 29 30 29 30 29
July 28.9 28 29 29 29 29
August 28.6 28 29 28 29 29
September 28.8 29 28 29 29 30
October 29.3 29 30 29 29 30
November 29.8 30 29 30 30
December 30.5 31 30 31 30
Average 29.9 29.8 29.8 29.5 30.0 30.1

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 24.6 25 24 24 24 25
February 24.8 26 25 25 24 25
March 25.0 26 25 24 25 26
April 24.9 26 25 24 24 26
May 24.1 24 25 24 24 25
June 23.3 23 23 23 24 23
July 22.6 23 23 22 23 23
August 22.2 22 22 22 22 22
September 22.7 24 23 23 23 23
October 23.2 23 23 23 23 23
November 24.1 24 23 24 24
December 24.6 25 24 24 24
Average 23.8 24.0 23.8 23.2 23.7 24.0

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 15.4 17 28 23 2 4
February 16.0 19 7 9 8 13
March 6.3 5 18 1 2 6
April 9.0 5 14 10 3 16
May 6.1 1 4 10 1 11
June 2.9 6 1 1 4 3
July 5.4 10 12 7 7 1
August 4.5 1 2 12 7 2
September 4.4 7 17 5 3 0
October 6.4 8 12 8 9 12
November 9.8 3 19 9 13
December 10.1 12 6 2 15
Average 8.1 8.2 10.9 9.6 4.7 8.2

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 7.7 7 8 10 6 7
February 7.4 9 6 6 7 7
March 6.2 6 7 6 6 6
April 6.4 6 6 7 6 7
May 6.2 5 6 7 7 6
June 6.7 7 7 6 7 7
July 6.9 8 8 6 7 7
August 7.4 7 7 7 8 7
September 6.7 7 7 6 6 8
October 6.8 6 7 6 8 8
November 7.1 6 7 7 8
December 7.6 7 9 8 7
Average 6.9 6.8 6.9 6.7 6.9 7.2

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 055° 055° 063° 070° 058°
February 022° 036° 096° 058° 064°
March 018° 055° 058° 342° 046°
April 020° 016° 069° 047° 050°
May 234° 104° 056° 059° 260°
June 174° 074° 077° 066° 154°
July 145° 071° 024° 073° 069°
August 024° 070° 063° 052° 060°
September 041° 122° 031° 011° 060°
October 251° 050° 020° 055° 059°
November 266° 350° 044° 053°
December 035° 065° 060° 066°

Prevailing wind direction

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