According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Papua New Guinea is April and November. Plan 10–14 days.
Best months for Papua New Guinea
- Best months
- April and November
- How long to stay
- 10–14 days
- Continent
- Oceania
What Papua New Guinea is best for
Remote wilderness, cultural sing-sings in the Highlands, Kokoda Track trekking, and pristine coral reef diving.
- Prices
- €€ · about the same as in Slovakia
Weather in Papua New Guinea by month
Monthly averages around Port Moresby; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (225 mm) |
| February | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (198 mm) |
| March | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (285 mm) |
| April best | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (147 mm) |
| May | about 27 °C | some rain (87 mm) |
| June | about 27 °C | some rain (69 mm) |
| July | about 26 °C | little rain (24 mm) |
| August | about 26 °C | some rain (33 mm) |
| September | about 26 °C | some rain (36 mm) |
| October | about 27 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| November best | about 28 °C | some rain (69 mm) |
| December | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (108 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Papua New Guinea
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Languages
- Tok Pisin, English and Hiri Motu
- Currency
- Papua New Guinean Kina (PGK)
- Time
- UTC+10 (most of the country)
- Plugs
- Type I · 240 V
- Driving
- On the left
- Calling code
- +675
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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