Choiseul Island

3,119 km² rising to 891 m out of the Solomon Sea.

N 20 km

Beaches

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

3,119km²

Area

646km

Coastline

891m

Highest point

20,000

People

30°C

Warmest sea

December

1,480km

To the mainland

When to go to Choiseul Island

Best for the beach from January to May.

The sea is warmest in December (30 °C) and coolest in August (29 °C). You can swim comfortably all year (21 °C or more).

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Jan25

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Feb26

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Mar27

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Apr27

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May27

29°28°27°

Jun28

29°28°27°

Jul28

29°28°27°

Aug27

29°28°27°

Sep25

29°28°27°

Oct26

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Nov23

30°29°28°

Dec25

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days Best months

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Island in Solomon Islands

Choiseul Island is an island in Solomon Islands. It belongs to Solomon Islands. It covers 3,119 km², with 646 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 891 m. About 20,000 people live on it. The nearest mainland is 1,480 km away.

Getting there

Munda Airport (MUA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 151 km in a straight line
1,480 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
From January to Maybest months to go (from 30 years of averages)

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on Choiseul Island.

7beaches
1hotels, guesthouses and apartments
1restaurants, cafés and bars

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Choiseul Island in our other atlases

Everything Coastya, Peakyas, Lakeyas and Cascadyas know about what lies inside Choiseul Island, each with its own numbers.

26mountainsPeakyas

Highest point
420m
Vovolapula Peak
according to Peakyas

26 mountains

on Peakyas, the mountain atlas

Vovolapula Peak420m
Boliu Peak395m
Pindini Peak375m
Sisiro Peak263m
Vanakala Peak219m
Kovorae Peak182m
Kumboro Peak112m
Lupozinaka

18 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 213 m above the sea. 53 % of it is below 200 m.

16 %0–50 m
37 %50–200 m
42 %200–500 m
5 %500–1,000 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Choiseul Island3,119 km²

Mallorca3,685 km²

Long Island3,529 km²

100 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Month by month

The weather on the island.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon high (°C)	29	28	28	28	29	28	28	28	28	28	29	29
Night low (°C)	28	27	27	27	28	27	27	27	27	27	27	28
Sea (°C)	30	30	30	30	30	29	29	29	29	29	30	30
Rain (mm)	263	298	280	261	322	336	332	314	265	277	227	220
Wet days	25	26	27	27	27	28	28	27	25	26	23	25
Sun h/day	5.9	5.4	5.9	6.0	5.9	5.3	4.8	5.2	5.9	6.2	6.4	6.4
Wind (km/h)	14	15	14	13	14	18	21	21	19	16	13	12

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	+0.2	−0.1	+0.6	+0.3	+0.7	+1.1	+1.1	+1.0	+0.9	+0.9	+0.6	+0.5
2021	+0.4	+0.4	+0.4	+0.2	±0.0	+0.4	+0.5	+0.8	+0.9	+0.9	+0.6	+0.2
2022	+0.1	+0.3	+0.9	+0.6	+0.7	+0.9	+0.7	+1.1	+1.0	+0.8	+0.6	+0.5
2023	+0.4	+0.7	+0.4	+0.5	+0.7	+0.6	+0.7	+0.3	+0.3	±0.0	±0.0	−0.3
2024	+0.5	−0.1	+0.5	+0.8	+0.8	+1.1	+1.1	+0.8	+0.6	+0.6	+0.8	+0.6
2025	+1.2	+1.0	+0.9	+0.5	+0.8	+0.6	+1.0	+1.3	+1.2	+0.8	+0.8	+0.5

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Barava, Choiseul, tridacna clamshell - Otago Museum - Dunedin, NZ - DSC04399 — Daderot · Public domain

Nearby

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About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q867864) · CC0
Outline	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Sea temperature	NOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
Climate	NASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Towns	GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Beaches, mountains, lakes and waterfalls	Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0