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Nouméa weather

85,976 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:59

Air: Good Moderate storm risk · Tue, Thu, Fri

21°

Light rain

Feels like 26°C

Wind

17 km/h

Gusts

17 km/h

Humidity

80 %

Pressure

1018 hPa

Clouds

100 %

Storm

Rise 19:11 Set 08:04 Day 12 h 52 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Light rain

22°21°

Feels like 25°

Wind ↑ SSW 17 km/h

Humidity 66 %

💧 2.5 mm

19:00

21°

2.4mm

SSW 17

22:00

22°

0.1mm

SSW 11

Nouméa forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Nouméa climate: what a normal year looks like

Swimmers find the warmest sea in February (27 °C) and the coolest in August (22 °C).

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 14 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,630 mm of rain — more than 80% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 25 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (24 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	27 °C	21 °C	204 mm	27 °C
Feb	27 °C	21 °C	211 mm	27 °C
Mar	26 °C	21 °C	250 mm	27 °C
Apr	25 °C	19 °C	160 mm	26 °C
May	23 °C	17 °C	133 mm	25 °C
Jun	22 °C	16 °C	106 mm	24 °C
Jul	21 °C	14 °C	88 mm	23 °C
Aug	21 °C	14 °C	91 mm	23 °C
Sep	22 °C	15 °C	74 mm	23 °C
Oct	24 °C	16 °C	67 mm	24 °C
Nov	25 °C	18 °C	106 mm	25 °C
Dec	27 °C	19 °C	135 mm	26 °C
Whole year	24 °C	18 °C	1,630 mm	25 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 22.34° S, 166.41° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Nouméa: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.58µg/m³

PM1012µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Nouméa

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Nouméa, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Nouméa yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Nouméa

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 22:20 Set 08:11

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Paris); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Nouméa

Tide station used: Chaleix Noumea · 6 km away

🌊 Sea surface

23.9 °C

satellite, 29/10

Sea state

Smooth

waves 1.0 m

Period

9 s

Swell

0.8 m

TodayThu 29/10

High range92

Low tide 16:20 0.5 m

High tide 21:49 1.2 m

TomorrowFri 30/10

High range82

Low tide 04:16 0.1 m

High tide 11:00 1.5 m

Low tide 17:12 0.6 m

High tide 22:36 1.2 m

SatSat 31/10

High range70

Low tide 05:01 0.2 m

High tide 11:50 1.4 m

Low tide 18:08 0.6 m

High tide 23:30 1.1 m

SunSun 01/11

Mean tide58

Low tide 05:51 0.3 m

High tide 12:46 1.3 m

Low tide 19:12 0.7 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Nouméa

Curious about the weather in Nouméa on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Nouméa weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Nouméa: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “light rain”, it is 21 °C (feels like 26 °C) and the wind blows at 17 km/h.

Expected range today: 21 °C to 22 °C and around 4 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms, plus the tide times for Chaleix Noumea.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations