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Suva, capital of Fiji: facts and figures

Updated 28 August 2026 · 3 min read · DailyGeo team

Key figures

Climate through the year

Suva averages 23.1 °C from June to August and 25.9 °C from December to February. August is the coldest month of the year and February the warmest, and the city receives 2,619 mm of precipitation in an average year.

What makes it stand out

• Size: 2nd least populous capital in Oceania (180,000 residents).
• Elevation: 3rd highest capital in Oceania (44 m).
• Elevation: 3rd lowest-lying capital in Oceania (44 m).
• Winter: 3rd coldest capital in Oceania (23.1 °C).
• Winter: 3rd mildest capital in Oceania (23.1 °C).
• Summer: 3rd hottest capital in Oceania (25.9 °C).
• Rainfall: wettest capital in Oceania (2,619 mm).
• Latitude: 3rd northernmost capital in Oceania (18.14°).
• Latitude: 3rd southernmost capital in Oceania (18.14°).
• Wealth: 3rd capital of the richest country per head in Oceania ($6,642).

Nearest capitals

Distances are great-circle distances between city centres, which is what the Capitals game measures when it tells you how far a guess was from the answer. Port Vila is the closest capital to Suva.

How to remember it

Reading a figure once rarely fixes it in memory. Attach Suva to a place and a number you already know: it is 1,071 km from Port Vila, and it is the 159th largest capital in the atlas. Then practise retrieving it. DailyGeo Capitals gives you one mystery capital a day with distance, direction, language and population clues, the memorising method explains the review schedule, and the capitals index lists all 172.

To see how Fiji compares with every other country on figures like these, the richest countries by GDP per capita ranks them on geopolitix, a country-ranking game by the same maker as DailyGeo.

Sources

• City population and coordinates: DailyGeo's own game data, the same figures the Capitals game plays with. Population follows the urban area rather than the commune, which is why no density is quoted.
• Temperature and rainfall: ten-year means (2015 to 2024) computed from ERA5 reanalysis, retrieved through Open-Meteo. Hersbach, H., et al. (2020). The ERA5 global reanalysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
• Elevation: terrain height at the city's coordinates in the Copernicus DEM, read through Open-Meteo rather than taken from a curated claim.
• Time zone: resolved from the same coordinates.
• Country figures: the World Bank, latest reported year for each series: Country GDP, GDP per capita, Country population, Life expectancy, Internet users.
• This capital elsewhere: Wikipedia, UNdata, Wikidata.
• Method and limits: How this data was collected explains how each figure was collected and what it does not cover.

The short answer

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