Climate averages 1991–2020

Lower Hutt weather
in January.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 19.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 14.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 58 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Lower Hutt: daytime highs average 19.5°C and nights cool to about 14.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 46 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Wellington (14 km away). In January its highs average 17.8°C, 1.7°C cooler than Lower Hutt, with 55 mm of rain.

Among the 11 cities listed in New Zealand, Lower Hutt ranks 9th of 11 for the warmest January highs and 3rd of 11 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 11 cities is 20.8°C; Lower Hutt is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 19.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 58 mm to 56 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Lower Hutt climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Lower Hutt, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	19.5°C14.6°C	14.6°C	58	8.4	14.815 h
February	19.9°C14.9°C	14.9°C	56	7.4	13.714 h
March	18.5°C13.6°C	13.6°C	59	8.2	12.412 h
April	16.3°C11.9°C	11.9°C	69	9.6	11.011 h
May	14.3°C10.4°C	10.4°C	70	10.4	9.910 h
June	12.3°C8.5°C	8.5°C	88	12.1	9.39 h
July	11.5°C7.6°C	7.6°C	84	12.2	9.510 h
August	11.8°C7.7°C	7.7°C	80	13.1	10.510 h
September	13.0°C8.8°C	8.8°C	76	11.8	11.812 h
October	14.4°C10.0°C	10.0°C	88	11.9	13.213 h
November	15.8°C11.1°C	11.1°C	73	10.7	14.414 h
December	17.9°C13.3°C	13.3°C	68	10.8	15.115 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Lower Hutt

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Lower Hutt) is explained once on the Lower Hutt year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.