With an average temperature of 24° C, the climate is particularly mild and sunny. From April till September, however, nights can be cooler.

As well as French, two indigenous languages are still spoken on Ouvéa: Iaai of Melanesian origin, in the centre and north of the island, and Faga-uvéa, spoken by Polynesian descendants in the south and north.

LOYALTY ISLANDS PROVINCE BRANCH OFFICE
Wadrilla – Tel: (687) 45 52 50
Mon/Thu 7.30 am-11.30 am / 12.30 am-4.30 pm
Closes on Friday at 3.30 pm

TOWN HALL
Wadrilla - Tel: (687) 45 71 11
Mon/Thu 7.30 am-11.30 am / 1.30 pm-4.30 pm
Closes on Friday at 3.00 pm

POST OFFICE Fayaoué - Tel: (687) 45 71 00
Mon/Fri: 7.45 am-11.15 am / 12.15 pm-3 pm

BCI - Wadrilla - Tel: (687) 45 71 31
Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 7.20 am till midday, and on Wednesdays from 7.20 am till midday and 1 pm till 3 pm.
ATM inside the agency (withdrawals can only be made in the morning).

SAINT-JOSEPH DISTRICT

• Gossanah - Tel: (687) 88 11 17
• Ognat (St Thomas) - Tel: (687) 88 11 71
• Téouta Ounes - Tel: (687) 88 11 72
• Takedji - Tel: (687) 88 11 73
• Wénéki - Tel: (687) 88 11 69
• St-Joseph - Tel: (687) 88 15 79

FAYAOUÉ DISTRICT

• Fayaoué Post Office – Tel: (687) 88 11 01
• Ouloup Medical Centre – Tel: (687) 88 12 53
• Ouassadieu - Tel: (687) 88 12 51
• Ouloup Air Terminal – Tel: (687) 88 11 16
• Banoutr - Tel: (687) 88 12 49
• Ouloup St Gabriel tribal village – Tel: (687) 88 12 54
• Wadrilla - Tel: (687) 88 11 00
• Wadrilla (in front of the BCI) - Tel: (687) 88 15 96
• Guei - Tel: (687) 88 11 37
• Nimaha - Tel: (687) 88 11 38
• Hâûyâû (St. Paul) - Tel: (687) 88 11 39

MOULI  DISTRICT

• Mouli - Tel: (687) 88 11 36

• Fayawa - Tel: (687) 88 90 28
• Lékiny - Tel: (687) 88 11 70
• Mouli - Tel: (687) 88 15 81

The Hnyinëhë market is held all day Wednesday beside the sea (between Banoutr and Wadrilla).
Markets are held in the tribal villages of St-Paul, Guei and Wakatra on Saturday mornings.

Saint-Joseph District

OGNAT ST-THOMAS

• Chaoury Joanny - Tel: (687) 45 70 98 – Mon/Sat: 7.00 am-11.30 am / 4 pm-7 pm - Sun: 9 am-12 midday.

HEO

• Bunaca - Tel: (687) 45 72 12 – Mon/Sat: 7.00 am-11.30 am / 4 pm-7 pm - Sun: 9 am-12 midday. Petrol, gasoil (TOTAL)
• Chez Joseph Underwood - Tel: (687) 45 73 30 Mon/Sat: 7 am-11 am / 4 pm-7.30 pm - Sun: 9 am-12 midday. Petrol, gasoil (TOTAL).

Fayaoué district

WADRILLA

• Chez FEFI - Tel: (687) 45 70 61 – Mon/Sun 7.30 am-11.30 am / 2 pm-7.30 pm

• Chez Mado – Mon/Sat: 6.30 am-12.30 am / 3.30 pm-8.30 pm. Sunday 6.30 am-9 am / 4.30 pm-8.30 pm. Petrol, gasoil (TOTAL)

HNYIMEHE

• Chez Raymond food store - Tel/Fax: (687) 45 72 61 Mon/Sat: 6.30 am-8 pm – Sun: 8 am-8 pm.
• Chez Raymond Shell Station. Mon-Sat: 6.30 am-5.30 pm - Sun: 8 am-5 pm. Petrol, gasoil.

HWAAHNGEE

• Boulangerie Hnahee (bakery) - Tel: (687) 45 71 65 – Mon/Sat: 6.30 am-11.30 am / 2.30 pm-6.30 pm

FAYAOUÉ

• Chez Fella Benjamin - Tel: (687) 45 71 09 – Mon/Sat: 6.30 am-11.30 am / 2.30 pm-6.30 pm. Petrol, gasoil (SHELL).

BANOUTR

• Ocean Beach - Tel: (687) 45 72 65. Mon/Sat: 6 am-11 am / 4 pm-6.30 pm
• Jeanne d'Arc self service - Tel: (687) 45 73 77. Mon-Sat: 6 am-12.30 am / 2.30 pm-8 pm – Sun: 7 am-12 midday / 4 pm-8 pm.

Mouli district

• Maïlysse - Tel: (687) 45 70 30 - Fax: (687) 45 70 13 Mon/Fri: 6 am-12 midday / 3 pm-7 pm. Sat: 6 am-12 midday / 4 pm-7 pm. Sun: 6 am-12 midday. Petrol, gasoil (SHELL).
•  Curios Vaymity - at Cocotier Tel/Fax: (687) 45 70 40

        Protestant church services

SAINT-JOSEPH DISTRICT

• Gossanah

FAYAOUÉ DISTRICT

• Wadrilla
• Fayaoué (Pastor Wete Arama)
• Hnyinëhë (Pastor Honakoko)
• Banout (Pastor Boucko)
• Guei
• Wakatr

Services at the temple are between 10 am and 11 am every Sunday; the service generally lasts one hour.

       Catholic masses

SAINT-JOSEPH DISTRICT 

• Héo: St-Joseph church

FAYAOUÉ DISTRICT

• Fayaoué: St-Michel church

MOULI DISTRICT

• Mouli: Ste-Marie church

Masses in the churches are either at 8 am or 4 pm every Sunday; mass generally lasts one hour.

          Chapels: Evening prayers

SAINT-JOSEPH DISTRICT

• Takedji
• Téouta
• Ognat

FAYAOUE  DISTRICT

• Ouloup
• St-Paul

• St-Gabriel

MOULI DISTRICT

• Fayawa Islands
• Lékiny

Evening prayers are held at 7 pm every Sunday; prayers generally last one hour.

MEDICAL  CENTRE :

• Ouloup - Tel: (687) 45 71 10
      Mon/Fri: 7.30 am-11.30 am / 2 pm-5 pm

DISPENSARY:

• St-Joseph - Tel: (687) 45 71 78
      Mon/Fri: 7.30 am-12 midday / 2 pm-4 pm
• Mouli - Tel: (687) 45 73 11
      Mon/Fri: 2 pm-5 pm

PHARMACY:

• Ouloup – Tel/Fax: (687) 45 01 11
      Mon/Thu: 8 am-12 midday / 2 pm-5 pm Fri: 8 am-12 midday / 2 pm-4 pm

Fayaoué - Tel: (687) 45 71 17
Information from 7.30 am-11.30 am / 1.30 pm-5.30 pm Monday to Saturday and on Sunday from 8.30 am-11.30 am / 2 pm-5.30 pm. Skeleton staff 24 hours daily.

PROTESTANT RELIGIOUS CONVENTION – June.

THE LAGOON FESTIVAL

FOIRE DES ILES (ISLANDS FAIR) – The fair rotates each year between each of the three Loyalty Islands (2008 in Maré and 2009 in Ouvéa).