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The following table lists records of extreme temperature in territories of Oceania.

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Territory	Lowest Temperature			Highest Temperature
Territory	T°C	Place	Date	T°C	Place	Date
Oceania	-25.6	Ranfurly New Zealand	17 July 1903	50.7	Oodnadatta Australia	2 January 1960 and Onslow Airport Australia	13 January 2022
		Ranfurly New Zealand

American Samoa (US)	17.2	Pago Pago ^[1]	2 September 1970	35.6	Pago Pago ^[2]	27 February 1998
Australia	-23.0	Charlotte Pass, New South Wales ^[3]	29 June 1994	50.7	Oodnadatta, South Australia ^[3]^[4]	2 January 1960
Australia	-23.0	Charlotte Pass, New South Wales ^[3]	29 June 1994	50.7	Onslow Airport, Western Australia	13 January 2022
Cook Islands (NZ)	8.9	Avarua, Rarotonga	July 1915 and August 1965	35.4	Avarua, Rarotonga ^[5]	10 February 2014
Coral Sea Islands Territory (Aus.)	11.6	Cato Island ^[6]	17 August 2022	35.2	Willis Island ^[6]	9 February 2002
Fiji	5.6	Navai Valley Viti Levu ^[7]^[8]	19 July 1938 and 5 July 1939	37.4	Vatukoula Viti Levu ^[9]^[10]	12 January 2003
Guam (US)	18.3	Agana International Airport ^[11]	13 January 1973 and 8 February 1973	35.0	Agana International Airport ^[12]	30 June 1969 and 18 July 1969
French Polynesia (Fr.)	8.5	Rapa ^[13]	5 September 1972	36.1	Atuona ^[14]	15 December 1972
Kiribati	18.3	Tabuaeran		35.9	Kanton Island ^[15]	8 December 2025
Marshall Islands	20.0	Jaluit Airport ^[16]	18 January 1957 and 19 November 1992	35.6	Utirik ^[17]	24 August 2016
		Kuwajleen (Kwajalein Atoll) ^[17]	4 January 1979 and 28 September 1984
		Majuro ^[16]	28 November 1991
Federated States of Micronesia	18.1	Pohnpei ^[18]	6 March 2003	36.7	Pohnpei ^[17]^[19]	5 November 2009
Nauru	20.4	Yaren ^[20]	6 August 1922	34.6	Nauru Airport ^[21]	14 November 2003
New Caledonia (Fr.)	2.3	Bourail ^[22]	17 June 1965	39.9	Boulouparis ^[22]	8 January 2002
New Zealand	-25.6	Ranfurly, Otago ^[23]	17 July 1903	42.4	Rangiora Canterbury province	7 February 1973 ^[24]
Niue (NZ)	10.6	Hannan Airport ^[25]	25 July 2008	34.6	Alofi	23 February 1988
Northern Mariana Islands (US)	16.7	Saipan Airport ^[26]	8 February 1973	35.0	Afetna (Saipan LORAN) ^[26]	19 June 1959
Northern Mariana Islands (US)	16.7	Saipan Airport ^[26]	8 February 1973	35.0	Saipan International Airport ^[27]	20 and 24 August 1994, 13 and 15 August 2017
Palau	18.9	Nekken Forestry ^[28]	27 December 1994, 29 and 30 January 1995 and 26 February 1996	35.6	Koror	2 June 2024
Papua New Guinea	-5	Laiagam ^[29]	1971	39.4	Lae ^[30].	21 January 1976
Pitcairn Islands (UK)	10.0	Adamstown^[31]	11 September 1974 and 10 June 2008	35.0	Henderson Island ^[32]
Samoa	8.4	Afiamalu, (Upolu)		36.5	Asau, Savai’i ^[33]^[34]	December 1977.
Solomon Islands	16.6	Honiara Airport ^[35]	11 August 1993	36.1	Tulaghi ^[36]	8 December 1913
Solomon Islands	16.6	Honiara Airport ^[35]	11 August 1993	36.1	Honiara Airport	1 February 2010
Tokelau (NZ)	19.0	Fakaofo ^[37]	September 1947	35.6	Fenuafala, Fakaofo ^[38]
Tonga	8.3	Nukuʻalofa ^[39]	2 August 1933	35.5	Niuafo'ou ^[40]	1 February 2016
Tuvalu	19.5	Nui ^[41]		35.5	Nanumea ^[42]	27 November 2019
United States Minor Outlying Islands (US)	7.2	Midway Atoll	26 March 1975	36.6	Wake Island	15 August 2019
Vanuatu	8.5	Bauerfield, (Port Vila Airport), Éfaté ^[43]	24 July 1986	36.2	Lamap, Malekula ^[44]	8 February 2016
Wallis and Futuna (Fr.)	18.0	Hihifo, Ile Wallis ^[45]	13 July 2014	35.8	Maopoopo, Ile Futuna ^[46]	10 January 2016

Footnotes

[1]
Numerous temperatures as low as 15°C reported from the airport prior to 1966 are unreliable.
[2]
Old record of 36.7C taken at Pago Pago City early in the XX century might have been affected by oveirexposure.37.2C recorded in 1958 is unreliable too.
[3]
Average Temperatures, Year Book of Australia 2002, Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 28 February 2007.
[4]
A temperature of 53.1C recorded at Cloncurry on 16 January 1889 was recorded nor proper exposure conditions.
[5]
As most of Oceania data, many data of Cook Islands is quite suspicious due to the poor instruments used in most stations.37.3C reported at Tongareva and other readings are not considered reliable,also including a 35.6C at Aitutaki in February 1933.
[6]
Monthly Climate Statistics: Willis Island, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
[7]
Annual Meteorological Report for the Year 1938, Colony of Fiji, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
[8]
Annual Meteorological Report for the Year 1939, Colony of Fiji, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
[9]
Weather Summary for Fiji Islands – January 2003, Fiji Meteorological Service, World AgroMeteorological Information Service (WAMIS). Retrieved 28 December 2011.
[10]
39.4°C reported from Nacocolevu Viti Levu in February 1968 and 38.0 °C reported from Labasa (Lambasa) Vanua Levu in January 1980 are probably unreliable. 37.6C at Londoni in February 2024 and 37.5C at Yaqara in January 2024 are dubious.
[11]
Guam WSMO, Pacific Ocean, Period of Record General Climate Summary – Temperature, Western Regional Climate Center, Retrieved 18 March 2007. This temperature in 1973 was believed to be recorded with a metar in Fahreneit degrees. The same temperature of 65F on 23 January of the same year and on 18 March 1965 are not confirmed. Note that most of Guam data is unreliable due to a large amounts of instruments errors, instruments overexposed, transmission data errors, widespread errors and missing data in the archives.Guam WSMO minimum temperatures likey the 12.2C on 14 March 1965 are also believed to be overexposed and exaggerated.Guam Mariana Island Station also recorded 16.0C on 28 January 1973,while Guam WFO has recorded 17.2C on 8 February 1969. Tiyan Airport also recorded 18.3C on 2 and 22 January 1983 and 22 January 1987 but the minimum in these days is not confirmed by metar airport data. Agana International Airport lowest metar of 18C on 18 January 2000 was likely a wrong approximation of 18.9C.
[12]
Guam NAS, Pacific Ocean, Period of Record General Climate Summary – Temperature, Western Regional Climate Center, Retrieved 18 March 2007.Note. A temperature of 35.6C on 8 June 1987 is suspicious and a 35.0C on 16 April 1971 as well.
[13]
http://www.meteo.pf/climat.php?lien=pf
[14]
http://www.meteo.pf/climat.php?lien=pf.There are a number of higher but unreliable figures.
[15]
Arorae station data is almost surely affected by overexposure and/or problems of calibrating instruments.Therefore its records of 36.8C has been discharged. Some old extremes temperatures recorded in the Kanton Island have also been discharged for large amounts of problems in that meteorological station.
[16]
Pacific Islands Annual Temperature Summary (F), Western Regional Climate Centre. Data from Eniwetok and other stations are to be considered not reliable, due to a large amount of errors in their series. Moreover, instruments used are believed to have been badly calibrated. All that results in having these series being completely unusable.Lower temperatures recorded at Laura and at Arno are probably not reliable.
[17]
[18]
Lower temperatures recorded in several stations, like 17.8C at Chuuk in October 1999, are unreliable.
[19]
There are several unreliable temperatures like 37.1C at Oroluk,36.7C at Pingelap and other obvious errors.
[20]
Old temperatures between 17C and 20C are either incorrect or taken under not proper exposure conditions.
[21]
Higher old temperatures as high as 37.2C were taken under bad exposure conditions.The period of time which air temperature have been recorded with proper screens is very limited.
[22]
Quel temps fait-il en Nouvelle - Calédonie ?, CyclonExtrème. Retrieved 23 February 2007. A high elevated station called Humboldt at 1340m asl recorded a dubious +0.7C on 10 September 1995.
[23]
The official national record had been the -21.6C recorded at Ophir always in the Otago province on 3 July 1995, but later this old record was discovered in an old document by the New Zealand Meteorological services.
[24]
Some sources also claim 42.4C at Jordan on the same day, but the correct figure seems to have been 42.3C.
[25]
New Zealand Meteo Office. Lower readings at Alofi and Vaipapahi are unreliable.
[26]
[27]
Northern Marianas data are extremely poor.Many other more extreme readings are likely wrong data.
[28]
Temperatures recorded in Nekken Forestery are highly questioned due to the big ammount of wrong data and the reliable temperatures encompass a short period of time.
[29]
Wohlt, P. (1989). Migration from Yumbisa, 1972-75, Mountain Research and Development, 9, pp. 224-234. Lowest temperature recorded in the Autonomous province of Bougainville,which has very scarce data, is 17.8C at Kieta.
[30]
Highest temperature recorded in the Autonomous province of Bougainville,which has very scarce data, is 36.7C at Buin.
[31]
Temperatures in the Pitcairn Island are taken on a small hillock above the settlement of Adamstown, resulting in cooler temperatures compared to the climate of the village.
[32]
This reading may be suspicious and cannot be confirmed.In separated official readings recorded in 1991 and early 1992 highest temperature was 31.7C.
[33]
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2011/12/15/000386194_20111215004704/Rendered/INDEX/E28540EA0v30P10MF000December0202011.txt
[34]
Old higher temperature recorded in the capital Apia have been discharged by the Samoa Meteorological Services for possible overexposure conditions,but a temperature of 98F (36.7C) was also recorded with a well screened instrument,so that is possibly reliable. Asau data in 2015, together with other new AWS installed by the NOAA,is unreliable.
[35]
A lowest temperature of 15.6C at Kirakira should be regarded as suspicious and probably taken under not proper exposure conditions.
[36]
Higher temperatures recorded in the first decades of the XX century were likley taken under not correct exposure conditions.
[37]
A lowest temperature of 16.7C recorded in August 1952 is unreliable.
[38]
Tokelau old temperatures may be affected by overexposure. Normal temperatures range is between 22C and 35C and some old records,although official, must be regarded as suspicious. 37.9C was reported in Atafu in December 1981 but appears to be unreliable.Nukunonu temperatures recorded between the end of 2009 and the first days of January of 2010 were taken under not correct exposure conditions.
[39]
Old Tongan readings might have been affected by slight overexposure, but they generally look acceptable. Modern record of lowest temperature is 8.7C at Fua'amotu on 8 September 1994.
[40]
Higher temperatures reported during the first half of XX century were taken under not proper exposure conditions.
[41]
This temperature is possibly unreliable. Other old readings of temperatures between 16C and 18C are highly unreliable. Reliable temperature data for Tuvalu encompasses a short period of time. Very reliable and confirmed lowest temperatures in Tuvalu are around 21C.
[42]
Temperatures data from Tuvalu is full of wrong and faulty data. Many hourly data is also missing,causing a not correct range of min/max.Moreover instruments used has been not precise and in some cases without sun cages.Therefore some records may be over/under estimated,like many readings like 36.1C at Funafuti itself and Niulakita,35.9C at Nui and 35.8C at Nanumea.
[43]
Historical Weather: Bauerfield Efate, Vanuatu, El Tiempo. Retrieved 16 March 2007.
[44]
Old readings as high as 37.0C recorded at Port Vila during the late years of the XIX century and the early years of the XX century are not considered official and might have been affected by overexposure.
[45]
http://www.wallis.co.nc/meteo/ClimatologieWF.html. 17.6C was recorded at Mala'etoli, in Wallis Island, on 1 June 1987,but that station is not fully reliable. A temperature of 17.7C at Wallis on 16 May 1972 is possibly unreliable.
[46]
Historical Weather: Maopoopo Ile Futuna, France, El Tiempo. Retrieved 19 March 2007.Futuna temperatures prior to 2018 might be overestimated.

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