Paauilo, 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 Paauilo's primary NOAA station, PAAUILO 221.
The climate verdict for Paauilo
Water is the standout signal in Paauilo, Hawaii: 90.4 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 71°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.
- 71°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 76/100
- comfort score, above 69% of station-mapped location scores
- 90.4"
- yearly precipitation total
Paauilo: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00517312 · Paauilo, HI 71°F mean · 90.4" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-UNK · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 71°F
- RANK-WARM #6,587
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Choke Canyon Dam
- PRCP-WET 90.4"
- SWING-NARROW 8°F
- COMF-TOP 76/100
- LOAD-UNK Load pending
- STN-1 USC00517312
- BOOK-FULL 5/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Choke Canyon Dam, TX (+ 0 °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.
- Paauilo (this station) 71°F
- Hot New Orleans, LA 71°F
- Near Choke Canyon Dam, TX 71°F
- Near Houston, TX 71°F
- Near Lytle, TX 71°F
Paauilo 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
Paauilo 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
- 74.3°F
- Coldest month
- 66.7°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 · balanced station
Where Paauilo sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Paauilo's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 4% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Paauilo sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 1% wettest
- Paauilo'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 Paauilo is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Paauilo compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Paauilo'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 | 78°F (25°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 7.6" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
| February | 78°F (25°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 8.8" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
| March | 77°F (25°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 11.8" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
| April | 80°F (27°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 9.7" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
| May | 80°F (27°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 6.2" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
| June | 83°F (28°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
| July | 82°F (28°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 5.9" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
| August | 83°F (29°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 74°F (24°C) | 6.7" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
| September | 83°F (29°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 74°F (24°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
| October | 82°F (28°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 5.3" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
| November | 79°F (26°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 10.0" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
| December | 78°F (26°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 10.0" | 0.0" | N/A | N/A |
The year, day by day
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is March 28, when 55% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 13 at 38%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 174 wet dates a year.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Paauilo.
Where Paauilo Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 90 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Paauilo 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
11.7 days with precipitation
12.3 days with precipitation
16.7 days with precipitation
16.1 days with precipitation
13.8 days with precipitation
13.5 days with precipitation
16.4 days with precipitation
17.3 days with precipitation
12.8 days with precipitation
13.3 days with precipitation
15.3 days with precipitation
14.5 days with precipitation
Paauilo spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 18% of the annual total and December through February 29%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Paauilo has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry an unusually narrow 7.6°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: March averages 11.8" and June 3.8". The three wettest months together take 35% 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.
When it rains in Paauilo, it arrives in quantity
90.4" of precipitation falls across only about 174 wet days here, averaging 0.52 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 174 a year, 48% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.52 inches
- Most wet days
- August, about 17
- Fewest wet days
- January, about 12
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Paauilo'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
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside HI closest to Paauilo 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 (71°F here).
- Houston, TX 71°F · 0.0°F off
- Lytle, TX 71°F · 0.0°F off
- New Orleans, LA 71°F · 0.0°F off
- Beeville, TX 71°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (90.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Tillamook, OR 89.8" · 0.6" off
- Government Camp, OR 89.8" · 0.6" off
- Klawock, AK 89.2" · 1.2" off
- Highlands, NC 88.3" · 2.1" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Paauilo's climate pattern fits together
wet · low swing
Paauilo reports 90.4 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The moisture total can be interpreted directly even though missing degree-day data prevents a heating-versus-cooling classification.
Paauilo's 7.6°F seasonal spread is compact even though precipitation is abundant. August and March mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 71°F. Temperature is relatively steady; the monthly rows show how rain and snow observations vary across the calendar.
Paauilo's heating-versus-cooling balance cannot be classified because one or both annual degree-day totals are missing. The temperature and precipitation normals below remain source observations; PlainClimate does not estimate the absent energy measure.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Paauilo. 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 Paauilo's primary station, where heating and cooling demand are close enough that neither season sets the character on its own. On a balanced station like Paauilo, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.
Questions about Paauilo's climate
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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 Paauilo's primary station: PAAUILO 221 (USC00517312). 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 1559300), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Paauilo: 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 Paauilo 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.