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
Honiara the 1960s and 1970s some two-thirds of the investment into economic development in the country went into developing the infrastructure of Honiara, despite the fact that at the time only some five percent of Solomon Islanders lived there. Like Tulagi, the town did not grow substantially as a result of industrialisation. As Trevor Sofield says, "The shops and businesses in these centers served the needs of the government officials and expatriate businessmen, planters, and traders. Honiara, like many other ex-colonial cities, still reflects the political, economic and cultural structure of its former metropolitan mentor much more than it does the