Weather in Faaa in March

Shoulder season. March is shoulder season in Faaa — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. You should expect rain on 22 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

March ranks 12 of 12 — near the bottom of Faaa's year. September is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 23 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 22 of the month's 31 days, 4 of them heavy. At that frequency a wet-weather backup is not a contingency, it is the itinerary — book the indoor things first and treat the clear days as the bonus. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average March reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 1.1 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 29.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 24.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 80 mm — roughly 60% of the month's rain in one day.

March is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest March on record still delivered 224 mm against 53 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 134 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 15.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 80%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How March sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 27.6 °C in February, 27.8 here, 27.7 in April. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in March

12.2 hours of daylight, losing 0.5 hours across the month. That is between Faaa's extremes of 13.2 and 11.1 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 28.9 °C in March — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

How busy it gets

Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

March in Faaa versus nearby

If Faaa is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Vaitape is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Avarua is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: March is a compromise. September is 23 points better and is what Faaa is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Faaa

See all twelve months in Faaa, or where else to go in March.