The Papaikou 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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89° on Nov. 15, 2019, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 88° in 1996.
Papaikou’s center stands about 150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 20 ft to 1,260 ft, a difference of 1,240 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Nanamauna Cone, about 3,880 ft, 12 miles west-northwest.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 4×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Papaikou 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 Papaikou 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, 6 miles south-southeast, 120 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
