Climate averages 1991–2020

Weather in New Zealand.

ClimaNote covers 11 cities in New Zealand, starting with Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington. Open a city for charts and a table of all 12 months, or open a month for a side-by-side comparison of cities in the atlas.

Across these cities the yearly average high ranges from 13.2°C in Dunedin to 17.7°C in Manukau City (tied with Auckland), and yearly rainfall from 585 mm in Christchurch to 1,846 mm in New Plymouth. The hottest city-month is February in Hamilton, New Zealand, with an average high of 23.2°C (tied with January in Hastings, New Zealand), and the coolest is July in Dunedin, at 8.4°C. By single month, the most rain falls in July in New Plymouth, with 189 mm, and the least in February in Christchurch, with 39 mm (tied with July in Dunedin).

February is the warmest month in 8 cities and January in 1 (in 2 other cities two or more months tie); July is the coolest in every city. July is the wettest month in 6 cities, June in 2, October in 1 and December in 1 (in 1 other city two or more months tie); February is the driest in 5 cities, January in 3, March in 1, May in 1 and July in 1. None of these cities has a month with an average high below 2.0°C, a month with under 1 mm of rain or a month with more than 300 mm of rain.