Climate averages 1991–2020
Tauranga weather
in April.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Tauranga: daytime highs average 18.3°C and nights cool to about 12.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 117 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes April a wet month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 09 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hamilton, New Zealand (78 km away). In April its highs average 18.6°C, about as warm as Tauranga, with 92 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in New Zealand, Tauranga ranks 4th of 11 for the warmest April highs and 10th of 11 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 11 cities is 17.1°C; Tauranga is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 15.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 117 mm to 113 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Tauranga climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.0°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 86 | 9.6 | 14.414 h |
| February | 22.2°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 97 | 8.4 | 13.514 h |
| March | 20.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 96 | 9.4 | 12.412 h |
| April, selected | 18.3°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 117 | 9.8 | 11.111 h |
| May | 15.8°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 113 | 9.9 | 10.110 h |
| June | 13.7°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 129 | 10.7 | 9.610 h |
| July | 12.9°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 133 | 11.6 | 9.810 h |
| August | 13.4°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 117 | 12.5 | 10.711 h |
| September | 14.8°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 112 | 12.0 | 11.812 h |
| October | 16.4°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 96 | 12.0 | 13.013 h |
| November | 18.2°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 89 | 10.5 | 14.114 h |
| December | 20.2°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 112 | 11.9 | 14.715 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
April in nearby cities
- Hamilton, New Zealand in AprilNew Zealand · 78 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 10.3°C · 92 mm rain
- Manukau City in AprilNew Zealand · 137 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 13.4°C · 78 mm rain
- Auckland in AprilNew Zealand · 155 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 14.0°C · 75 mm rain
- Hastings, New Zealand in AprilNew Zealand · 225 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 10.6°C · 69 mm rain
- New Plymouth in AprilNew Zealand · 238 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 11.7°C · 154 mm rain
- Palmerston North in AprilNew Zealand · 301 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 9.7°C · 82 mm rain
- Lower Hutt in AprilNew Zealand · 407 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 11.9°C · 69 mm rain
- Wellington in AprilNew Zealand · 418 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 12.4°C · 73 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Tauranga) is explained once on the Tauranga year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.