| La Foa | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Province: | South Province |
| Map Size: | 270px |
| Adjustable Map: | Locator map of La Foa 2018.png |
| Map Caption: | Location of the commune (in red) within New Caledonia |
| Insee: | 98813 |
| Postal Code: | 98880 |
| Mayor: | Florence Rolland[1] |
| Term: | 2022 - 2026 |
| Coordinates: | -21.7115°N 165.8182°W |
| Elevation M: | 20 |
| Elevation Min M: | 0 |
| Elevation Max M: | 1058 |
| Area Km2: | 464.0 |
| Population: | 3552 |
| Population Date: | 2019 census |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Ethnic: | Kanaks 31.11% Europeans 28.66% Wallisians and Futunans 10.67% Mixed 17.96% Other 11.6% |
| Ethnic Date: | 2019 census |
La Foa (pronounced as /fr/) is a commune in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.
Although the provincial seat of the South Province is in Nouméa, La Foa was made the chief town of the administrative subdivision of the South in order to counterbalance the overwhelming weight of Nouméa in New Caledonia. Both entities share an almost identical territory, but their status and role is quite different: the South Province, with its provincial assembly in Nouméa, is a full political division, whereas the administrative subdivision of the South is only an administrative division of the French central state, akin to an arrondissement of Metropolitan France, with a Deputy Commissioner of the Republic (commissaire délégué de la République), akin to a subprefect of metropolitan France, in residence in La Foa.
La Foa has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw). The average annual temperature in La Foa is . The average annual rainfall is with February as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around, and lowest in July, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in La Foa was on 12 December 1952; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 29 July 1968.