According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Samoa is May to September. Plan 5–7 days.
Best months for Samoa
- Best months
- May to September
- How long to stay
- 5–7 days
- Continent
- Oceania
What Samoa is best for
Famous for the To Sua Ocean Trench, white-sand Lalomanu Beach, rainforest waterfalls, and traditional Polynesian village culture.
- Prices
- €€ · about the same as in Slovakia
Weather in Samoa by month
Monthly averages around Apia; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (249 mm) |
| February | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (255 mm) |
| March | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (159 mm) |
| April | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (168 mm) |
| May best | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (123 mm) |
| June best | about 27 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
| July best | about 27 °C | some rain (72 mm) |
| August best | about 27 °C | some rain (54 mm) |
| September best | about 27 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
| October | about 27 °C | a lot of rain (135 mm) |
| November | about 27 °C | a lot of rain (213 mm) |
| December | about 28 °C | a lot of rain (222 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 Samoa
- Capital
- Apia
- Languages
- Samoan and English
- Currency
- Samoan Tala (WST)
- Time
- UTC+13
- Plugs
- Type I · 230 V
- Driving
- On the left
- Calling code
- +685
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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