Best time to go to the South Pacific

[lizanne]

We are looking to go to the South Pacific in 2016. Which are the best months to go? We understand that the weather is very wet in January/February is this so?

 

Any help would be much appreciated

 

Thanks

[6rugrats]

You can google to bring up historical weather records, but the "wet season" is November through March

 

But, you just never know. We were there Dec. 2013 and no rain at all but the day before we left. Then, it rained pretty much every day for at least a week.

Edited February 18, 2015 by 6rugrats

[Floridiana]

Most ships go there in the wet season due to their world wide travel schedule. The Gauguin and the Aranui stay there year round. If you consider them, go in June, July, August for the highest likelihood of calm seas, less humidity and sunny weather. The very southern islands may even experience cool winds blowing up from Antarctica.

[Hlitner]

Keep in mind that the "South Pacific" is a huge geographical area with plenty of climate variations. So you do need to consider your itinerary. Here is a link to a site we have used in the past to help our own decision making:

http://www.southpacific.org/pacific/weather.html

 

Hank

[paul929207]

We have been to French Polynesia twice in July and Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu in October/November. The weather was wonderful for all these visits

[OzKiwiJJ]

We went to New Caledonia and Fiji over Christmas. The first day at sea was very windy, and the last day at sea returning to Sydney was also cool and windy. We had some tropical showers (short but heavy) in the afternoon at Port Denerau, our Dravuni port stop was cancelled due to high winds making the tenders unviable, and we had some morning showers at Lifou (snorkelling in the rain feels weird!). Other than that the weather was gorgeous, very warm and quite humid in the ports.

 

We're off to New Caledonia again next month so it will be interesting to see if we get similar good weather.