In this note, we propose to study the rate at which the weak pair correlation statistic with parameter \(0 < \alpha \le 1\) converges to its limit in the Poissonian case. As an application we show that if \((x_n)_{n \in \mathbb {N}}\) has weak \(\alpha \) -Poissonian pair correlations and the rate of convergence is locally uniform of order \(cN^{-\kappa }\) , then it also has weak \(\beta \) -Poissonian pair correlations for some \(\beta > \alpha \) depending on \(\kappa \) . This may be regarded as a partial converse of the well-known fact that \(\beta \) -Poissonian pair correlations imply \(\alpha \) -Poissonian pair correlations if \(\beta > \alpha \) .