Honiara which connects it with the Honiara International Airport (formerly known as Henderson Field) about to the east of Honiara across the Lunga River. To the west of the town center are the suburbs of White River and Tanaghai. The climate is tropical, more specifically a tropical rainforest climate, with an average daytime temperature of about . The water temperatures range between and . Honiara is noticeably wetter between November and April. The average amount of precipitation per year is about and thus somewhat lower than the average on the Solomon Islands as a whole (). However, Honiara is subject to
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