Enderbury Island

6.2 km² of land in the Pacific Ocean.

N 0.2 km

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

In numbers

6.2km²

Area

12km

Coastline

Highest point

People

29°C

Warmest sea

May

4,690km

To the mainland

When to go to Enderbury Island

Best for the beach from August to December.

The sea is warmest in May (29 °C) and coolest in February (28 °C). You can swim comfortably all year (21 °C or more).

28°28°27°

Jan12

28°28°27°

Feb11

28°28°27°

Mar13

29°28°28°

Apr15

29°28°28°

May14

29°28°28°

Jun13

29°28°28°

Jul12

29°28°28°

Aug10

29°28°28°

Sep7

29°28°28°

Oct7

29°28°28°

Nov7

29°28°28°

Dec11

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 the Pacific Ocean

Enderbury Island is an island in Kiribati. It belongs to Phoenix Islands. It covers 6.2 km², with 12 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 8 m. Nobody lives on it. The nearest mainland is 4,690 km away.

Getting there

4,690 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
From August to Decemberbest months to go (from 30 years of averages)

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

Car hire in KiribatiDiscover CarsSee

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 1 m above the sea. 100 % of it is below 200 m.

100 %0–50 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.

Enderbury Island6 km²

Capri10 km²

Manhattan54 km²

5 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)	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28
Night low (°C)	27	27	27	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28
Sea (°C)	28	28	28	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29
Rain (mm)	83	114	86	85	55	61	50	55	35	34	35	84
Wet days	12	11	13	15	14	13	12	10	7	7	7	11
Sun h/day	9.2	8.6	9.1	9.1	9.3	9.1	9.2	9.6	9.9	10.1	10.0	9.3
Wind (km/h)	22	21	20	18	17	20	21	22	22	18	19	20

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	+0.8	+1.0	+0.5	+0.5	−0.3	−0.2	−0.1	−0.3	−0.4	−1.0	−0.9	−1.3
2021	−1.0	−1.1	−0.6	−0.4	−0.4	−0.1	−0.2	−0.3	−0.8	−0.9	−0.9	−1.1
2022	−0.5	−0.6	−1.0	−1.3	−1.4	−0.8	−0.9	−1.3	−1.4	−1.4	−1.3	−1.2
2023	−1.0	−0.8	−0.4	+0.3	+0.2	+0.6	+0.7	+0.9	+1.0	+1.6	+2.1	+1.8
2024	+1.6	+1.3	+1.3	+1.3	+0.7	+0.9	+0.6	+0.3	+0.1	−0.2	±0.0	−0.3
2025	−1.0	−1.1	−0.4	+0.3	+0.1	+0.4	±0.0	−0.3	−0.6	−0.5	−0.5	−0.6

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Rotjan - Enderbury Day 1 - 2nd half (62) — Dr. Randi Rotjan, New England Aquarium. www.neaq.org · CC BY-SA 3.0

Enderbury Island Coast AKK — Cameron B. Kepler · Public domain

Nearby

More islands nearby.

Kanton Island

Kiribati11 km²8 m78 km away

Orona

Kiribati7.6 km²15 m200 km away

About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q30638) · 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