The climate in Reunion

Climate zone: tropics

The climate in Reunion is very warm, with an annual average of 28 degrees, but has few truly tropical and sticky months. It is warm to hot all year round, inviting bathing at average water temperatures of 26 degrees. Due to less rain, the best time for traveling is from October to November. The most rain days occur from from January to March.

Long-term development of temperatures from 1992 - 2022

In contrast to single record values, long-term development cannot simply be brought about by all weather stations in the country. Both the number and the locations are constantly changing. An average value would give a distorted result. If several measuring stations in particularly cold mountain or coastal regions are added in one year, the average would decrease as a result of this alone. If a station fails during the summer or winter months, it does not provide any values and distorts the average again. The subsequent long-term development was therefore reduced to only 1 measuring points in order to have comparable data over as long a period as possible.

In the years 1992 to 2022, there were only these 1 weather stations in the whole country, which reported continuous temperature values (Saint Denis). From these weather reports, we have created a long-term development that shows the monthly average temperatures. The hottest month in this entire period was February 1998 at 27.8 °C. August 1992 was the coldest month with an average temperature of 20.5 °C.

The average annual temperature was about 23.8 °C in the years after 1992 and about 24.5 °C in the last years before 2022. It has therefore increased only slightly by about 0.7 °C over the past 31 years. This trend only applies to the selected 1 weather stations in Reunion. A considerably more comprehensive evaluation of global warming has been provided separately.



Data basis: German Weather Service, individual values averaged and supplemented by own elements.