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Bora Bora in April
good · a good time to go
The year in Bora Bora
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- JanJBora Bora in January: avoid
- FebFBora Bora in February: good
- MarMBora Bora in March: ok
- AprABora Bora in April: good
- MayMBora Bora in May: sweet spot
- JunJBora Bora in June: sweet spot
- JulJBora Bora in July: sweet spot
- AugABora Bora in August: good, busy
- SepSBora Bora in September: sweet spot
- OctOBora Bora in October: sweet spot
- NovNBora Bora in November: good
- DecDBora Bora in December: avoid
- Sweet spot
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- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 28°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 26°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 32°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 10 · 172 mm |
| Humidity | 79% |
| Sunshine | 10.6 h/day |
| Daylight | 11.7 h/day |
| Beach and sea | 20 of 30 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 29 °C, warm good |
| Crowds | 80 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Vaitape, 7 km from the airport (BOB): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in April
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Bora Bora in pictures
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Michelle Maria, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Michelle Maria, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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The TerraMar Project, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 28°C.
- A packable rain jacket for the 10 or so rainy days.
- Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.
- Humidity averages 79%; breathable fabrics dry faster.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Drives on the right. The currency is the Cfp franc. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise normal security precautions. US State Department: Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions. Everything for French Polynesia: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Bora Bora: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
April elsewhere
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