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Climate

Actually,  Polynesia is a country where it is Summer alll year round, with a pleasant tropical climate cooled off by the Pacific Trade Winds. The average temperature, depending on the season, varies only between 25 and 30° Celsius (i.e. 78 to 86 degrees Farenheit), for the greatest pleasure of visitors coming from the Northern Hemisphere. With an average temperature between 25 and 28°C (78 and 82°F), the lagoon will greet you with comfort:   a true fountain of youth!  Divers should know that it is slightly cooler 10 or 15 meters deep, but wet suits are seldom needed in our latitudes.

From November through March, the weather is warm and humid with frequent rain showers in November and December. This is tropical rain that often feels like a strong shower and that seldom lasts more than 20 to 30 minutes.

The driest and "coolest" season is April through October (" coolest " is a figure of speech as the minimum temperature practically never falls below 22°C (72°F) !). But the start of each season varies slightly from one year to the next. Thus it is not rare to get rain early in October or to observe that in February, there was 3 rainy days in the whole month. Warning: the months of July and August are the busiest months for tourism and it is not unusual for some islands to be all sold out.

 Table of average temperatures:
( recorded at the Tahiti airport )

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