Wake climate by month
What the weather is like
Wake has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 30° and nights 24°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 8° and lows of 2°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 22°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 1,338 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (45 mm, 17 wet days) and April the driest (115 mm, 10 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 28% in December to 55% in June.
The sea reaches about 27° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Tokyo, the capital, Wake is 0.6° warmer on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · August
- Coldest nights
- 2° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- December · 28% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 29 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 50 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 8° | 9° | 12° | 18° | 21° | 25° | 29° | 30° | 27° | 21° | 16° | 11° |
| Average low | 2° | 2° | 5° | 10° | 14° | 19° | 23° | 24° | 21° | 14° | 9° | 4° |
| Precipitation | 45 mm | 60 mm | 105 mm | 115 mm | 151 mm | 194 mm | 199 mm | 100 mm | 158 mm | 100 mm | 67 mm | 44 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 16.5 | 14 | 12.7 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 14.5 | 16.5 | 14 | 15.8 | 12.2 | 11.3 | 15.5 |
| Cloud cover | 32% | 36% | 40% | 42% | 45% | 55% | 47% | 35% | 39% | 32% | 30% | 28% |
| Sea temperature | 14° | 13° | 13° | 15° | 17° | 21° | 25° | 27° | 26° | 24° | 20° | 16° |
| Daylight | 10h 04 | 10h 55 | 11h 55 | 13h 02 | 13h 58 | 14h 29 | 14h 17 | 13h 30 | 12h 26 | 11h 22 | 10h 22 | 9h 50 |
| Month score | 24 | 23 | 36 | 68 | 66 | 57 | 45 | 44 | 56 | 70 | 62 | 30 |