The Hawaiian Beaches plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
89° on Nov. 15, 2019, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 88° in 1996.
Hawaiian Beaches’s center stands about 280 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 30 ft to 530 ft, a difference of 500 ft: hilly country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Puʻukiaʻi, about 1,940 ft, 13 miles southwest.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Hawaiian Beaches has a tropical rainforest climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 64° in January. About 120 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hawaiian Beaches normally reaches 80° and falls to 68°. The record high is 88°, in 2019; the record low 60°, in 1949. The most rain on this date, 4.46 in, fell in 1990.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 from the Hilo Area threaded record (Hilo International Airport 87, 15 miles northwest, 250 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.