What is average temp in HI?

Answer 1

I lived there for quite some time and it seemed to average around the lower 80's. In the winter it gets a bit cooler in the evenings, and in the summer, especially August, September and etc., it gets pretty warm there. The trade winds die down during that time of year which is a big factor in the heat. It rains throughout the year, more in winter and spring, which seems to almost always be a warm tropical rain. There is a termite season in Hawaii which I believe is during the month of June. They can be quite the nuisance, especially at dusk and during the warm evenings after the wind has mellowed out. The weather there can be somewhat unpredictable, however, it seems you can almost always find some sunshine somewhere on the island. The weather/tropical climate of Hawaii is amazing.

I think that you're OVERESTIMATING the average temperature in Hawaii by about 10 degrees. I think that you're thinking of the average during the daytime hours when people are up and forgetting the nighttime. Also, it depends upon where you are in Hawaii. I've heard that the average annual temperature (which is computed by averaging the 12 months which in turn is computed by taking the maximum each day of the month and averaging it to get an "average maximum" and then taking the minimum each day of the month and averaging it to get an "average minimum". Then you average the "average maximum" and "average minimum" to get the mean/average for the month. Then you average the 12 months and get the average for the year). I've read that in Hawaii, average annual temperatures range from 76 degrees at Honolulu to 44 degrees at Mauna Loa Observatory. Other statistics for annual means are (and this is from memory which is VERY IMPERFECT so don't completely rely on it)

AVERAGE ANNUAL TEMPERATURES:

Honolulu: 76 degrees

Lihue: 73 degrees

La Haina: 75 degrees

Top of Haleakala: 53 degrees

Mauna Loa: 44 degrees

AND OTHER STATISTICS:

The highest temperature recorded in Hawaii is 100 degrees at Lihue.

The lowest temperature recorded in Hawaii is 12 degrees atop Haleakala (elevation about 10,000 feet) and Mauna Loa (elevation about 13,000 feet) and the latter happened in MAY. Because Hawaii is relatively close to the equator, the difference in the "average temperature" between the summer months and the winter months is "small (relative to places in temperate and polar latitudes) although still significant. Nevertheless, there is much overlap (as happens with places in tropical latitudes and any place where the average temperature is smaller than the amount of variability WITHIN a month). Hence, it is feasible that the "all time low" (in 'weather jargon', it's called the "absolute minimum").

Sometimes it has been said that Hawaii has a semi-tropical climate that is cooler than expected because of the tradewinds. Perhaps the latter is true but it has a "tropical climate" (according to the climate classification of Vladimir Koeppen, a German climatologist), not a "sub-tropical climate" (which sounds to ME like it is synonymous with 'semi-tropical'). At least in the lowlands it has a tropical climate. A "tropical climate", according to the aforementioned climatologist, is defined as "all months of the year averaging 64.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher (18 degrees Celsius). Since he was German and they use Celsius, I'm guessing that he used Celsius and therefore came up with a whole number for Celsius instead of for "Fahrenheit" (It would seem strange to me if he used as the dividing line something that was not a whole number such as 64.4).

Originally this same climatologist had earlier defined Tropical, Subtropical, Temperate, Subarctic, and Arctic differently and for many of these his dividing line was higher (Tropical: all months 68.0F or above, Sub-tropical: 4-11 months 68.0F or above, Temperate: at least 4-11 months 50 or above but less than 4 that were 68 or above, Subarctic: less than 4 months above 50 degrees, Arctic: all months below 50 degrees). Here I think that he was rounding off to the nearest "10 degrees" AS WELL AS "the nearest whole number" because 50.0F=10.0C and 68.0F=20.0C. Later he revised it based upon certain types of "plants and/or trees" that could or 'could not' grow in certain places based upon temperature. Hence, for "tropical", 68.0F was lowered to 64.4F and 'subtropical' was made to be where at least 4-11 months averaged above either 64.4 or 68.0F (I have a terrible memory, though, as I mentioned so don't quote me on this) AND IN ADDITION, had no month where the average was below 26.6F (that corresponds with the whole number of -3.0C). To ME, these seem like pretty strict requirements for a place to get into the temperate category because it means that a place like Saint Louis Missouri might be considered SUBTROPICAL just because it might have 4 months averaging above 68 (I'm not sure if it does or not, I just know that the average in July is 81F, according to a World Atlas I read) even though it has a few months which average below freezing (but none below 26.6).

But back to Hawaii. So the climate is tropical although cooled by trade winds and the seasons are marked much more by rainfall than by temperature. Also it depends where you are in Hawaii as you can see from the above statistics. Annual rainfall varies from about 460 inches on Mount Waialaialai (if I'm spelling it right) at about 5000 feet (the greatest rainfall totals are often the greatest on the windward side of mountains at higher elevations- elevations high enough to where the climate would no longer be tropical or maybe not even subtropical- than in tropical lowlands due to orographic lifting) to only about 8.0 inches at a place just over 20 miles away but presumably on the leeward side of Mount Waialaialai (which would classify it as "desert", not even "semi-desert", according to one definition, this is defined as having annual rainfalls of <20 inches per year and <10 inches per year, respectively).

Although not as extreme as on Kawaii (which Mount Waialaialai is on), the other islands have a similar weather pattern with regard to rainfall (the trade-winds blow FROM the northeast to the south west bringing moisture laden air to the Hawaiian Islands while the mountain chain due to volcanoes, runs from northwest to South-east, perpendicular to the trade winds thereby creating nearly perfect conditions for the moisture laden winds to slam into the mountain chain with a vengeance, dropping much rainfall on the northeast part most of the islands and leaving the southwest of most of those same islands relatively dry. I even read once that often the change in annual rainfall from one nearby place to another in Hawaii is so abrupt that they will have a sign saying "You are now entering the DRY ZONE" while for the cars driving the other direction, there's a sign saying "You are now entering the WET ZONE" just like you were crossing a "state line" or something. So yes, weather can be fascinating and in Hawaii, even more so.

If you got real close to the equator (like within about 10 degrees), it wouldn't make a difference whether it was summer or winter (some months would be hotter than others but it wouldn't have to do with summer or winter).

Answer 2

Average High: 85°F (at sea level)

Average Low: 78°F (at sea level)

Night time lows 68-75°F

Answer 3

The weather in Hawaii is generally humid (about 60-80%) with temperatures about 70-85 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and 60-70 degrees at night.

Answer 4

The highest recorded temperature was 100 degrees F.
100F, in 1931.

Answer 5

Due to its location on the windward side of the Hawaii's Big Island, Hilo is one of the wettest towns in the world with an average rainfall of 129 inches!

Hope I helped :)

Answer 6

The average fall temperature in Hawaiia lies between a high of 87 degrees and a low of 73 degrees.

Answer 7

100