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Bora Bora in August

Warm and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

August in Bora Bora is warm, around 78°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about three days a week, and the days lengthen by 23 minutes from the first week to the last.August in Bora Bora is warm, around 26°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about three days a week, and the days lengthen by 23 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
78°F26°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 48% of days
Daylight
11h 35mon average

Is August a good time to visit Bora Bora?

Yes. August is one of Bora Bora's best months (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 August sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Around 78°F in August, against 78°F to 81°F through the year.Around 26°C in August, against 26°C to 27°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

48% of days in August, against 48% to 88% through the year.

Cloud cover

38% cover in August, against 38% to 76% through the year.

Daylight

11h 35m in August, against 11h 10m to 13h 06m through the year.

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

Either side

  1. July78°26°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  2. August78°26°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. September78°26°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.

Where Bora Bora sits, in August

Pacific/Tahiti
this place
typical high in August 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-August
6:26 AMsets 5:58 PM
Above the sea
190 mlow-lying
Latitude
16.5°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Arue235 km east

The land around Bora Bora, shaded by its typical high in August, 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 August

typical · wet days
See August on the planning mapThe whole year in Bora Bora

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Bora Bora 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.