Ideal weather days in Honolulu
The best time to visit Honolulu for warm, dry weather is October, December and January, with 24 to 26 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Honolulu's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in October, December and January.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Honolulu, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too windy112
- Too wet34
- Too hot1
- Too cold0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Honolulu averaged 224 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the United States, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in August and September (up to 17 a month, 142 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 2.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h): 112 a year, mostly in March and June to September. Another 34 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in October to May. A day can fail more than one test.
Honolulu weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28 °C 82 °F | 6 | 2 | 3 | 26 of 31 |
| February | 28 °C 82 °F | 5 | 7 | 1 | 18 of 28 |
| March | 29 °C 83 °F | 5 | 10 | 1 | 19 of 31 |
| April | 30 °C 85 °F | 6 | 9 | 0 | 18 of 30 |
| May | 30 °C 86 °F | 6 | 10 | 0 | 17 of 31 |
| June | 31 °C 87 °F | 2 | 15 | 0 | 14 of 30 |
| July | 31 °C 88 °F | 2 | 15 | 1 | 15 of 31 |
| August | 32 °C 89 °F | 1 | 16 | 0 | 13 of 31 |
| September | 32 °C 90 °F | 1 | 13 | 1 | 17 of 30 |
| October | 31 °C 88 °F | 5 | 4 | 2 | 24 of 31 |
| November | 30 °C 85 °F | 4 | 8 | 0 | 19 of 30 |
| December | 29 °C 83 °F | 4 | 4 | 1 | 24 of 31 |
| Year | 45 | 112 | 10 | 224 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 225 warm, dry days
- 2024 215 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Honolulu for good weather?
The best time to visit Honolulu for warm, dry weather is October, December and January, with 24 to 26 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in August and September (up to 17 a month, 142 a year). Counted from measured days at Honolulu International Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Honolulu?
On average 45 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was January (6 rain days), the driest September (1).
How many sunny days does Honolulu get a year?
About 10 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in January (3).
How warm does Honolulu get?
The median daily high ranged from 28 °C (82 °F) in January to 32 °C (90 °F) in September.
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Source: Honolulu International Airport weather station (91182022521), 8 km from the centre of Honolulu, 2 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 88% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.