Climate averages 1991–2020

Palmerston North weather
in June.

A cool, wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 12.1°C Daytime mean, June

Average low 5.9°C Night-time mean, June

Rainfall 90 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

June is a cool month in Palmerston North: daytime highs average 12.1°C and nights cool to about 5.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes June a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 21 min on an average June day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lower Hutt (112 km away). In June its highs average 12.3°C, about as warm as Palmerston North, with 88 mm of rain.

Among the 11 cities listed in New Zealand, Palmerston North ranks 8th of 11 for the warmest June highs and 5th of 11 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 11 cities is 12.5°C; Palmerston North is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.

From June to July, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 11.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 90 mm to 89 mm.

The annual picture

June 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

Palmerston North climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Palmerston North, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	20.8°C13.1°C	13.1°C	70	10.5	14.715 h
February	21.4°C13.4°C	13.4°C	64	8.3	13.714 h
March	19.6°C11.9°C	11.9°C	62	9.4	12.412 h
April	16.9°C9.7°C	9.7°C	82	10.7	11.011 h
May	14.4°C7.9°C	7.9°C	79	11.9	9.910 h
June, selected	12.1°C5.9°C	5.9°C	90	13.2	9.39 h
July	11.4°C5.1°C	5.1°C	89	13.2	9.610 h
August	12.1°C5.2°C	5.2°C	89	13.8	10.511 h
September	13.5°C6.5°C	6.5°C	94	14.2	11.812 h
October	15.1°C8.1°C	8.1°C	109	14.9	13.113 h
November	16.7°C9.4°C	9.4°C	87	13.6	14.314 h
December	19.1°C11.8°C	11.8°C	98	13.5	15.015 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

June in nearby cities

Distance from Palmerston North

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 Palmerston North) is explained once on the Palmerston North year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.