Poya, New Caledonia
Poya | |
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 The town hall in Poya | |
 Location of the commune (in red) within New Caledonia | |
Location of Poya  | |
| Coordinates: 21°20′55″S 165°09′04″E / 21.3487°S 165.151°E | |
| Country | Mixed 13.67% Other 8.49% |
| Time zone | UTC+11:00 |
| INSEE/Postal code | /98827 |
| Elevation | 0–1,508 m (0–4,948 ft) (avg. 20 m or 66 ft) |
| 1 New Caledonia Land Register (DITTT) data, which exclude lakes and ponds larger than 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers. | |
Poya (French pronunciation:
Climate
Poya has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw). The average annual temperature in Poya is 23.8 °C (74.8 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,050.0 mm (41.34 in) with March as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around 27.3 °C (81.1 °F), and lowest in July, at around 20.0 °C (68.0 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Poya was 38.8 °C (101.8 °F) on 19 November 1968; the coldest temperature ever recorded was 6.1 °C (43.0 °F) on 24 May 1957.
| Climate data for Poya (1991−2020 normals, extremes 1955−present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 38.0 (100.4) |
37.6 (99.7) |
37.1 (98.8) |
35.0 (95.0) |
33.6 (92.5) |
32.0 (89.6) |
31.0 (87.8) |
32.0 (89.6) |
33.9 (93.0) |
36.2 (97.2) |
38.8 (101.8) |
38.1 (100.6) |
38.8 (101.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.6 (88.9) |
31.7 (89.1) |
30.8 (87.4) |
29.6 (85.3) |
27.6 (81.7) |
26.0 (78.8) |
25.2 (77.4) |
25.4 (77.7) |
27.0 (80.6) |
28.7 (83.7) |
30.0 (86.0) |
31.2 (88.2) |
28.7 (83.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.9 (80.4) |
27.3 (81.1) |
26.6 (79.9) |
25.1 (77.2) |
22.8 (73.0) |
21.3 (70.3) |
20.0 (68.0) |
20.1 (68.2) |
21.4 (70.5) |
23.3 (73.9) |
24.7 (76.5) |
26.3 (79.3) |
23.8 (74.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22.3 (72.1) |
23.0 (73.4) |
22.5 (72.5) |
20.6 (69.1) |
17.9 (64.2) |
16.5 (61.7) |
14.9 (58.8) |
14.8 (58.6) |
15.7 (60.3) |
17.8 (64.0) |
19.5 (67.1) |
21.5 (70.7) |
18.9 (66.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 14.9 (58.8) |
14.0 (57.2) |
14.0 (57.2) |
11.0 (51.8) |
6.1 (43.0) |
6.2 (43.2) |
7.0 (44.6) |
7.2 (45.0) |
6.7 (44.1) |
8.2 (46.8) |
9.6 (49.3) |
12.0 (53.6) |
6.1 (43.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 141.4 (5.57) |
163.5 (6.44) |
187.7 (7.39) |
93.9 (3.70) |
68.9 (2.71) |
67.9 (2.67) |
52.5 (2.07) |
57.9 (2.28) |
30.9 (1.22) |
35.4 (1.39) |
53.2 (2.09) |
96.8 (3.81) |
1,050 (41.34) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 10.0 | 11.6 | 12.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 6.3 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 5.3 | 8.2 | 85.5 |
| Source: Météo-France[3] | |||||||||||||
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ Population, ménages et logement par commune, en 2019, Institut de la statistique et des études économiques Nouvelle-Calédonie
- ^ "Fiche Climatologique Statistiques 1991-2020 et records" (PDF). Météo-France. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
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