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Best time to visit Easter Island
Chile · Latin America
All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.
The year in Easter Island
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- JanJEaster Island in January: good, busy
- FebFEaster Island in February: good, busy
- MarMEaster Island in March: good, busy
- AprAEaster Island in April: good
- MayMEaster Island in May: sweet spot
- JunJEaster Island in June: sweet spot
- JulJEaster Island in July: sweet spot
- AugAEaster Island in August: good
- SepSEaster Island in September: sweet spot
- OctOEaster Island in October: sweet spot
- NovNEaster Island in November: good, busy
- DecDEaster Island in December: sweet spot
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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Things to do in Easter Island
- Motu Nui Islet off the southwestern coast of Easter Island
- Rano Raraku Volcanic crater on Easter Island
- Ahu Tongariki Ahu on Easter Island
- Rapa Nui National Park Chilean national park, in Easter Island
- Rano Kau Dormant volcano on Easter Island
- Orongo Stone village and ceremonial center on Easter Island
- Ahu Akivi Ahu on Easter Island
Tours and tickets in Easter Island
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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.
Month by month
No fare history for this route yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only — the price column will fill in as the scanner collects.
| Month | Max °C | Rain days | Humidity | Sun h/day | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 23° | 5d | 76% | 12.2h | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Feb | 24° | 4d | 77% | 11.9h | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Mar | 24° | 3d | 76% | 11.0h | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Apr | 23° | 5d | 76% | 10.0h | good | 23C max, 5 rainy days |
| May | 22° | 7d | 74% | 8.7h | sweet spot | 22C max, 7 rainy days |
| Jun | 20° | 5d | 74% | 8.6h | sweet spot | 20C max, 5 rainy days |
| Jul | 19° | 7d | 74% | 8.5h | sweet spot | 19C max, 7 rainy days |
| Aug | 19° | 8d | 75% | 9.4h | good | 19C max, 8 rainy days |
| Sep | 19° | 4d | 74% | 10.1h | sweet spot | 19C max, 4 rainy days |
| Oct | 19° | 4d | 76% | 10.6h | sweet spot | 19C max, 4 rainy days |
| Nov | 20° | 4d | 76% | 11.7h | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Dec | 22° | 2d | 76% | 12.6h | sweet spot | 22C max, 2 rainy days |
Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.
Weather read at Hanga Roa: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.
How busy it gets
Then and now
No month in Easter Island is clearly warmer than in 1981–1990: the differences are inside the ordinary spread between one year and the next.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981–90 | 23.1° | 23.7° | 23.6° | 22.7° | 21.3° | 20.2° | 19.1° | 18.7° | 18.9° | 19.3° | 20.2° | 21.6° |
| 2017–26 | 23.1° | 24.0° | 23.7° | 22.8° | 21.6° | 20.3° | 19.2° | 18.9° | 18.7° | 19.1° | 20.3° | 21.6° |
| Change | -0.0° | +0.2° | +0.2° | +0.1° | +0.2° | +0.1° | +0.1° | +0.1° | -0.2° | -0.2° | +0.1° | +0.1° |
The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.
Getting there
How far Easter Island is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.
- from Santiago
- from Lima
- from Buenos Aires
- from Bogota
- from Mexico City
- from Sao Paulo
- from Miami
- from Los Angeles
Open in Rome2rio for every way from to Easter Island, flying or not.
Before you go
Type C and L plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Chilean peso. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution. US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Chile: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
Being there
On arrival
- Paying — Cards are accepted in chain stores and most independent shops in big cities; if the card machine asks about cuotas, choose sin cuotas.
- UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
- Tipping — About 10% in restaurants is customary, handed to the waiter; leaving nothing is seen as rude unless service was poor.
Getting around Easter Island
Walk around Hanga Roa; to see the rest of the island, rent a car, motorcycle or bicycle in town. The national park's sites can be entered only with a guide accredited by Ma'u Henua, so a guided tour is the easiest way to see them.
- Apps — Rides: Cabify, DiDi, inDrive, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp.
Easter Island is small, though there are just a few roads, the terrain is hilly and not all paths are marked. Only streets in Hanga Roa and the road to Anakena are paved. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Easter Island, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Help
- Emergency — police 133 · ambulance 131 · fire 132.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.
- Hospitals near Easter Islanda search on Google Maps
- Pharmacies near Easter Islanda search on Google Maps
Your embassy — : how to reach your embassy or consulate abroad. A guess from your city, : a city is not a passport.
Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.
Sources (17)
- gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/chile/getting-help
- uber.com/global/en/cities/santiago
- web.didiglobal.com/cl
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabify
- indrive.com/es-cl/city-rides
- red.cl/tarifas-y-recargas/conoce-las-tarifas
- mtt.gob.cl/comienza-el-pago-con-tarjetas-de-credito-debito-y-prepago-en-metro-y-efe-nos
- en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Santiago
- en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Chile
- soax.com/research/most-popular-messaging-apps
- developers.google.com/maps/coverage
- apple.com/ios/feature-availability
- chile.travel/en/destinations/rapa-nui-easter-island
- chile.travel/en/attractions/hanga-roa
- rapanuinationalpark.com/en
- pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2286608
- rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/AnnualReport/PDFs/09PAYMENT290526C6588B796E664822A2BD0DEB6452CAD4.PDF
Easter Island in pictures
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kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Joe Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Mike W. from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What Easter Island is like
Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua, Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui) is one of the most isolated islands on Earth. Early settlers called the island "Te Pito O Te Henua" (The Navel of the World). More on Wikivoyage
- Worth seeing
- Allow for a week to explore the island thoroughly with the mode of transportation you like – by foot, horse, bike, scooter, car, quad… More on Wikivoyage
- Worth doing
- While mostly thought of as a cultural and natural destination, Easter Island features two white sand beaches where you can tan and swim for instance. More on Wikivoyage
- Getting in
- Mataveri International Airport (IPC IATA) (at Hanga Roa in the southwest of the island). The island's only airport, with non-stop service from Santiago. More on Wikivoyage
- Staying safe
- The island has a pharmacy and a hospital that can treat emergencies and accidents. Serious cases and rare ailments require transportation to the mainland which will take several hours. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Easter Island, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.
Around Easter Island
Also in Chile
Nearby
- Lima Peru · 3,762 km
- Machu Picchu Peru · 4,133 km
- Buenos Aires Argentina · 4,890 km
- Bogota Colombia · 5,185 km
Kind of place
Easter Island is in Chile, Latin America. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.
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