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Honolulu weather by month

Honolulu runs from about 22°C in February to 26°C in September, with May the wettest month at 165 mm.

warmest month

September

26°C

coolest month

February

22°C

wettest month

May

165 mm

worst air month

May

8 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Honolulu
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January22°C141 mm301 h7
February22°C21 mm299 h7
March22°C22 mm324 h6
April23°C72 mm341 h7
May24°C165 mm372 h8
June25°C13 mm388 h8
July25°C16 mm397 h6
August26°C48 mm370 h6
September26°C13 mm349 h5
October25°C28 mm332 h5
November24°C21 mm318 h6
December23°C18 mm325 h6

About 4,116 hours of sun a year. Roughly 58 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-23. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.