Lihue, HI Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Lihue's primary NOAA station, LIHUE WSO AP 1020.1.
The climate verdict for Lihue
Warm-season cooling demand defines Lihue, Hawaii, running at more than twice its heating total. The NOAA normal records an annual average of 76°F. It scores 88/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 89% of them.
- 76°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 88/100
- comfort score, above 89% of station-mapped location scores
- 36.2"
- annual precipitation
Lihue: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00022536 · Lihue, HI 76°F mean · 36.2" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-COOL · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 76°F
- RANK-WARM #6,792
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Barking Sands
- PRCP-MID 36.2"
- SWING-NARROW 8°F
- COMF-TOP 88/100
- LOAD-COOL 4,124 CDD
- STN-1 USW00022536
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Barking Sands, HI ( -0.2 °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.
- Hot Kaneohe Bay Mcas, HI 77°F
- Lihue (this station) 76°F
- Cold Molokai, HI 76°F
- Near Barking Sands, HI 76°F
- Near Makaweli, HI 76°F
Lihue 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 · Lihue
Lihue: 76/100 · grade B
Lihue publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals · NOAA hourly normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Lihue, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 88/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Precipitation balance | 36.2 in · 1.2 from 35 in | 93/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 76.3°F · 8.8° from 67.5°F | 72/100 · B |
| Summer moisture balance | 69.8°F mean dew point | 14/100 · F |
Lihue · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Lihue stays in the tropical Köppen band: Aw
Year-round heat with a pronounced dry season: tropical savanna (Aw). Class Aw is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: tropical, specifically tropical savanna.
- Köppen code
- Aw
- Group
- Tropical
- Warmest month
- 80.2°F
- Coldest month
- 72.2°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 Lihue sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Lihue's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 1% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Lihue sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 50th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 99%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Lihue is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Lihue compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Lihue's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
88 Top 11% score exceeds 89% 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%). Below this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). This entry sits in this band.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Lihue's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 63 complete annual observations from 1951 to 2025, LIHUE WSO AP 1020.1 cooled at a fitted rate of 0.14°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Lihue primary station fitted change -0.14 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 79°F (26°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 2.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 78°F (26°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 79°F (26°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 5.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 80°F (27°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 2.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 82°F (28°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 76°F (25°C) | 2.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| June | 83°F (29°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| July | 85°F (29°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 80°F (26°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| August | 85°F (30°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 2.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| September | 85°F (30°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 2.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| October | 84°F (29°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| November | 81°F (27°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 76°F (25°C) | 4.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 79°F (26°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 4.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Lihue: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 66°F near January 15 and 85°F near September 3.
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 66°F around January 15.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is July 10, when 63% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 19 at 40%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 193 wet dates a year.
The widest day
January 12 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 13°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Lihue.
Where Lihue Stands Nationally
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 13°F.
Lihue earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
12.0 days with precipitation
12.5 days with precipitation
15.1 days with precipitation
15.5 days with precipitation
14.3 days with precipitation
17.8 days with precipitation
19.3 days with precipitation
18.0 days with precipitation
16.1 days with precipitation
16.9 days with precipitation
17.5 days with precipitation
17.6 days with precipitation
Lihue spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 16% of the annual total and December through February 31%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Lihue has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry an unusually narrow 8°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: March averages 5.6" and July 1.8". The three wettest months together take 39% 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.
Rain reaches Lihue in small, frequent amounts
Lihue records about 193 days with measurable precipitation a year and 36.2" in total, which works out to roughly 0.19 inches on an average wet day. Precipitation on 53% of all days, arriving that lightly, is the damp many-grey-days pattern rather than the storm-driven one.
Places in this band read as wetter than their annual totals suggest, because what people notice is the number of overcast days, not the depth in the gauge.
- Most wet days: July, about 19 of them.
- Fewest: January, about 12.
- Average depth per wet day: 0.19 inches.
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.
Lihue'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
0
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
4,124
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
February
Humidity & Wind
Monthly averages from hourly observations
| Month | Humidity | Wind (mph) | Clear Sky % | Overcast % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 75% | 11.9 | 25% | 21% |
| February | 74% | 12.5 | 22% | 21% |
| March | 76% | 13.4 | 15% | 24% |
| April | 74% | 13.3 | 14% | 20% |
| May | 75% | 12.9 | 14% | 14% |
| June | 74% | 14.3 | 11% | 16% |
| July | 74% | 14.5 | 9% | 15% |
| August | 74% | 13.4 | 11% | 13% |
| September | 74% | 12.3 | 15% | 14% |
| October | 76% | 12.3 | 14% | 18% |
| November | 76% | 13.7 | 18% | 21% |
| December | 76% | 11.5 | 26% | 19% |
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside HI closest to Lihue 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 (76°F here).
- Brownsville, TX 76°F · 0.1°F off
- Coral Springs, FL 76°F · 0.1°F off
- Needles, CA 76°F · 0.1°F off
- Everglades, FL 76°F · 0.2°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (36.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Boyne Falls, MI 36.2" · 0.0" off
- Whitewater, WI 36.2" · 0.0" off
- Arlington, TX 36.2" · 0.0" off
- Ottawa, IL 36.2" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Lihue's climate pattern fits together
cooling led · moderate · low swing
Warm-season load persists through a relatively even calendar in Lihue. Cooling totals 4,124 degree days, more than double the 0 heating measure, and the 8.0°F seasonal range is compact rather than sharply divided.
Lihue's 36.2 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
Temperature varies within a narrow 8.0°F band across the normal year. August and February mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 76°F. Monthly rows still matter, but they refine a steady profile rather than reveal two climatic extremes.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Lihue. 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 Lihue'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 Lihue 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 Lihue's primary station: LIHUE WSO AP 1020.1 (USW00022536). 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 1545200), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Lihue: 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 Lihue 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.