The Paia 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.
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92° on Nov. 13, 1968, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1905. Next is 92° in 2019.
Paia’s center stands about 200 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 980 ft, a difference of 970 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Puʻuoili, about 7,360 ft, 13 miles southeast.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 3×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Paia has a hot semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in August; winter nights fall to about 64° in January. About 16 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Paia normally reaches 86° and falls to 68°. The record high is 90°, in 2019; the record low 58°, in 1967. The most rain on this date, 1.78 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 from the Kahului Area threaded record (Kahului Airport, 4 miles west-southwest, 150 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
