Climate averages 1991–2020
Tauranga weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Tauranga: daytime highs average 15.8°C and nights cool to about 10.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 113 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 08 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hamilton, New Zealand (78 km away). In May its highs average 15.8°C, about as warm as Tauranga, with 107 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in New Zealand, Tauranga ranks joint 3rd of 11 for the warmest May highs and 10th of 11 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 11 cities is 14.8°C; Tauranga is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.2°C to 13.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 113 mm to 129 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 18.3°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 117 | 9.8 | 11.111 h |
| May, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Hamilton, New Zealand in MayNew Zealand · 78 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 8.2°C · 107 mm rain
- Manukau City in MayNew Zealand · 137 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 11.5°C · 92 mm rain
- Auckland in MayNew Zealand · 155 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 12.1°C · 96 mm rain
- Hastings, New Zealand in MayNew Zealand · 225 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 8.3°C · 54 mm rain
- New Plymouth in MayNew Zealand · 238 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 10.2°C · 183 mm rain
- Palmerston North in MayNew Zealand · 301 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 7.9°C · 79 mm rain
- Lower Hutt in MayNew Zealand · 407 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 10.4°C · 70 mm rain
- Wellington in MayNew Zealand · 418 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 11.1°C · 76 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.