Most visitors do not come to Hawaii when the weather is best but, rather, visit, when the cold come in their homeland. Season influx of tourists - when prices rise up, and resorts are often booked by 100% - from mid-December to late March or early April. The last 2 weeks of December - the peak season travel to Hawaii. If you are planning a trip in the time, book a room in advance, expect a large influx of tourists, be prepared to pay dearly for everything: hotel, car rental, airline tickets, tours.

 

Spring (from mid-April to mid-June) and autumn (September to mid-December) - the off-season. At this time, the prices are creeping down, and rest on the island a bit, although it is the best season in Hawaii in terms of the weather. If you are looking for opportunities to save money or simply want to avoid the influx of tourists, this is the best time to visit.

 

An exception is the end of April - beginning of May. The last week of April in Japan called Golden Week, because the three Japanese festivals are held one after the other. At this time of the year Hawaii visited by many tourists from the Land of the Rising Sun.

 

Climate

 

In Hawaii, there is no "seasons" in our sense of the term. The climate has two annual cycles based on the amount of precipitation. "Wet" season in Hawaii (lower temperatures and more rainfall) lasts approximately from October to March, and the "dry" season (higher temperature and less rainfall), from April to September. Therefore, the higher the likelihood of rain falls on the peak tourist season in late December or January. The rainy season sometimes brings rather gray weather, but rain rarely falls for three consecutive days.

 

Overall, Hawaii has a mild and humid climate, year-round temperature is not much different. The daytime temperature is usually in the range of +27 ° C in winter and +31 ° C in summer. Very rarely the temperature exceeds +33 ° C even in the hottest days of summer. The water temperature in the ocean from +25 ° C degrees in winter to +28 ° C in the summer. Typically, the difference between day and night temperatures does not exceed 12 ° C.

 

But the climate is largely dependent on the location. Each island has a leeward (protected from wind) and windward (receiving the full force of the wind) side. The moist tropical air encounters with the mountains, leaving the windward side (east and north), tend to be more cool and moist, and the leeward side (the west and south) are usually hot and dry. If you want to dry, clear weather, choose a leeward. If the weather does not suit, just go to the other side of the island.

 

Hawaii has many microclimates due to internal valleys, coastal plains and mountain peaks. Mount Waialeale on Kauai is the wettest place on earth, but Canyon Waimea just a few kilometers away near the desert. Hilo on the Big Island is one of the rainiest cities in the US (450 mm of rain per year), but in Puako, only 100 km, only 15 mm of precipitation a year. If you are traveling in the mountains, the climate may change from summer to winter for a few hours.

 

Tropical cyclones in the Hawaiian Islands are raging from June to November. In rare cases, natural disasters lead to catastrophic consequences, like a hurricane Inika on Kauai in September 1992. But this happens very rarely. Mainly fine weather to be day by day.