FranceTuamotusAtoll

Tureia

47.0 km² of land in the Pacific Ocean.

When to go

FRED · CC BY-SA 4.0

In numbers

47.0km²

Area

261

People

28°C

Warmest sea

March

5,650km

To the mainland

When to go to Tureia

Best for the beach from May to September.

The sea is warmest in March (28 °C) and coolest in September (25 °C). You can swim comfortably all year (21 °C or more).

27°27°26°

Jan18

28°27°26°

Feb17

28°27°26°

Mar16

28°27°26°

Apr16

27°26°25°

May14

26°25°24°

Jun13

25°24°23°

Jul13

25°24°23°

Aug10

25°24°23°

Sep11

25°24°24°

Oct15

26°25°24°

Nov16

27°26°25°

Dec19

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.

Atoll in French Polynesia

Tureia is an atoll in France. It belongs to Tuamotus. It covers 47.0 km². About 261 people live on it. The nearest mainland is 5,650 km away.

Getting there

Hao Airport (HOI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 396 km in a straight lineCar hire at BES airport (Brest)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
5,650 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
From May to Septemberbest months to go (from 30 years of averages)

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

Car hire at BES airport (Brest)Discover 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.

Month by month

The weather on the island.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon high (°C)	27	27	27	27	26	25	24	24	24	24	25	26
Night low (°C)	26	26	26	26	25	24	23	23	23	24	24	25
Sea (°C)	27	28	28	28	27	26	25	25	25	25	26	27
Rain (mm)	144	126	126	109	108	104	59	54	57	122	131	171
Wet days	18	17	16	16	14	13	13	10	11	15	16	19
Sun h/day	8.5	8.3	8.5	7.6	6.9	6.5	7.1	7.9	8.3	8.1	8.4	8.3
Wind (km/h)	21	21	20	20	21	23	23	22	23	22	21	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	±0.0	+0.5	+0.3	+0.6	+0.2	+0.4	+0.1	±0.0	+0.6	+0.5	+0.5	+0.4
2021	±0.0	+0.7	+0.6	+0.5	+0.6	+0.4	+0.9	+0.7	+0.6	+0.4	±0.0	±0.0
2022	−0.4	−0.4	±0.0	+0.1	+0.2	+0.6	+0.6	+0.6	+0.2	−0.1	−0.5	+0.2
2023	+0.6	+0.6	+0.3	+0.5	+0.8	+0.8	+0.4	+0.1	−0.3	+0.4	+0.6	±0.0
2024	±0.0	+0.3	+0.3	−0.4	+0.1	−0.1	+0.1	−0.3	−0.5	+0.2	+0.5	+0.1
2025	+0.3	+1.0	+0.5	+0.3	+0.6	+0.3	+0.8	+1.2	+1.0	+0.8	+0.4	−0.1

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Nearby

More islands nearby.

Moruroa

France15 km²118 km away Hao

France720 km²3 m379 km away

About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q2031580) · CC0
Outline	Natural Earth · public domain
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