Climate averages 1991–2020
Tauranga weather
in February.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a warm month in Tauranga: daytime highs average 22.2°C and nights cool to about 16.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 97 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes February a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 31 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hamilton, New Zealand (78 km away). In February its highs average 23.2°C, 1.0°C warmer than Tauranga, with 72 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in New Zealand, Tauranga ranks 5th of 11 for the warmest February highs and 10th of 11 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 11 cities is 21.1°C; Tauranga is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 20.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 97 mm to 96 mm.
The annual picture
February 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, selected | 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 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Hamilton, New Zealand in FebruaryNew Zealand · 78 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 14.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Manukau City in FebruaryNew Zealand · 137 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 16.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Auckland in FebruaryNew Zealand · 155 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 17.1°C · 65 mm rain
- Hastings, New Zealand in FebruaryNew Zealand · 225 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.9°C · 55 mm rain
- New Plymouth in FebruaryNew Zealand · 238 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 14.9°C · 104 mm rain
- Palmerston North in FebruaryNew Zealand · 301 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 13.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Lower Hutt in FebruaryNew Zealand · 407 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 14.9°C · 56 mm rain
- Wellington in FebruaryNew Zealand · 418 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 15.0°C · 56 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.