Kilauea, HI Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Kilauea's primary NOAA station, KILAUEA 1134.
The climate verdict for Kilauea
Warm-season cooling demand defines Kilauea, Hawaii, running at more than twice its heating total. The NOAA normal records an annual average of 74°F. It scores 76/100 for climate comfort (good), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 69% of them.
- 74°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 76/100
- comfort score, above 69% of station-mapped location scores
- 61.3"
- precipitation, annual total
Kilauea: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00514561 · Kilauea, HI 74°F mean · 61.3" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-COOL · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 74°F
- RANK-WARM #6,724
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Puu-o-hoku Rch
- PRCP-WET 61.3"
- SWING-NARROW 8°F
- COMF-TOP 76/100
- LOAD-COOL 3,246 CDD
- STN-1 USC00514561
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Puu-o-hoku Rch, HI (+ 0.1 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every HI station list.
- Kilauea (this station) 74°F
- Cold Princeville Rch, HI 74°F
- Hot Puukolii, HI 74°F
- Near Puu-o-hoku Rch, HI 74°F
- Near Hilo, HI 74°F
Kilauea sits in Hawaii, the #2 hottest U.S. state at 72.4°F statewide annual average - see all 50 hottest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Kilauea
Kilauea: 74/100 · grade B
Kilauea publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Kilauea, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 76/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 73.9°F · 6.4° from 67.5°F | 80/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 61.3 in · 26.3 from 35 in | 9/100 · F |
Kilauea · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Kilauea stays in the tropical Köppen band: Af
Every month stays warm (coldest ≥18°C) and the driest month still averages ≥60 mm: tropical rainforest (Af). Class Af is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: tropical, specifically tropical rainforest.
- Köppen code
- Af
- Group
- Tropical
- Warmest month
- 77.5°F
- Coldest month
- 69.8°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · cooling-led station
Where Kilauea sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Kilauea's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 2% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Kilauea sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 5% wettest
- Kilauea's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 100%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Kilauea is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Kilauea compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Kilauea's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
76 Top 31% score exceeds 69% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). This entry sits in this band.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 77°F (25°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 77°F (25°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 5.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 76°F (25°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 7.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 78°F (26°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 4.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 80°F (27°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 4.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| June | 82°F (28°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 3.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| July | 83°F (28°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 3.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| August | 83°F (29°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 78°F (25°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| September | 84°F (29°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 78°F (25°C) | 4.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| October | 83°F (28°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 76°F (25°C) | 5.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| November | 80°F (27°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 7.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 78°F (25°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 6.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Kilauea: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 62°F near January 16 and 84°F near September 23.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 62°F around January 16.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is June 25, when 81% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 19 at 58%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 259 wet dates a year.
The widest day
January 16 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 15°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Kilauea.
Where Kilauea Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 61 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 15°F.
Kilauea earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
18.1 days with precipitation
16.5 days with precipitation
19.9 days with precipitation
21.5 days with precipitation
20.1 days with precipitation
24.4 days with precipitation
24.2 days with precipitation
24.3 days with precipitation
22.6 days with precipitation
22.7 days with precipitation
22.4 days with precipitation
21.8 days with precipitation
Kilauea spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 20% of the annual total and December through February 27%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Kilauea has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry an unusually narrow 7.7°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: March averages 7.5" and June 3.7". The three wettest months together take 34% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
How Kilauea's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 259 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 61.3" between them, or roughly 0.24 inches on a typical wet day. That sits in the middle band: neither the many-light-days pattern of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes, nor the few-heavy-events pattern of the Gulf and the desert Southwest.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
Kilauea's record shows no measurable snowfall
This station measured snowfall across the 1991-2020 period and recorded none: the annual normal is 0.0 inches. That is a measured zero rather than missing data, which is a meaningful distinction here , most stations in the database simply do not report snow at all, and those pages say nothing about it.
A thirty-year normal of zero describes the typical year at this station. It is not a claim that snow has never fallen in the area.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
3,246
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside HI closest to Kilauea on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (74°F here).
- Del Rio, TX 74°F · 0.0°F off
- Ehrenberg, AZ 74°F · 0.0°F off
- Hebbronville, TX 74°F · 0.0°F off
- Lakeland, FL 74°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (61.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Evergreen, AL 61.3" · 0.0" off
- Panama City, FL 61.3" · 0.0" off
- Naples, FL 61.3" · 0.0" off
- Whatley, AL 61.4" · 0.1" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Kilauea's climate pattern fits together
cooling led · wet · low swing
Warm-season load persists through a relatively even calendar in Kilauea. Cooling totals 3,246 degree days, more than double the 2 heating measure, and the 7.7°F seasonal range is compact rather than sharply divided.
Warm-season demand is paired with a wet annual normal: 61.3 inches of precipitation at Kilauea. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The month-by-month bars distinguish a concentrated wet season from moisture spread across the calendar.
Kilauea's 7.7°F seasonal spread is compact even though precipitation is abundant. August and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 74°F. Temperature is relatively steady; the monthly rows show how rain and snow observations vary across the calendar.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Kilauea. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Kilauea's primary station, so the summer figures are a thirty-year average rather than a ceiling: individual years have run hotter and will again. For Kilauea that means a descriptive range only — not an official NOAA classification and not a prediction for next summer.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Kilauea's primary station: KILAUEA 1134 (USC00514561). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as a census-designated place (GEOID 1536650), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Kilauea: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Kilauea comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.