Climate · Arue

Arue in May

Warm and wet, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Arue is warm, around 80°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about five days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 17 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Arue is warm, around 27°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about five days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 17 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
80°F27°Caverage
Wet days
5a week · 67% of days
Daylight
11h 19mon average

Is May a good time to visit Arue?


A good month, just outside Arue's best months, which run from June to September.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Around 80°F in May, against 77°F to 81°F through the year.Around 27°C in May, against 25°C to 27°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

67% of days in May, against 44% to 87% through the year.

Cloud cover

56% cover in May, against 37% to 75% through the year.

Daylight

11h 19m in May, against 11h 08m to 13h 08m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with May shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

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  1. April81°27°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  2. May80°27°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  3. June79°26°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.

Where Arue sits, in May

Pacific/Tahiti

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:15 AMsets 5:34 PM
Above the sea
0 mlow-lying
Latitude
17.0°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Papeete57 km south

The land around Arue, shaded by its typical high in May, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in French Polynesia in May

typical · wet days

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Arue sits on a grid square that is mostly sea, where the data hold only a daily average, so the page shows one typical temperature, not a high and a low. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.