Climate averages 1991–2020
Tauranga weather
in October.
A mild, wet month: the 7th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a mild month in Tauranga: daytime highs average 16.4°C and nights cool to about 10.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 96 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes October a wet month (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 02 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hamilton, New Zealand (78 km away). In October its highs average 16.4°C, about as warm as Tauranga, with 100 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in New Zealand, Tauranga ranks joint 2nd of 11 for the warmest October highs and 8th of 11 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 11 cities is 15.3°C; Tauranga is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 18.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 96 mm to 89 mm.
The annual picture
October 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 | 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Hamilton, New Zealand in OctoberNew Zealand · 78 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 8.8°C · 100 mm rain
- Manukau City in OctoberNew Zealand · 137 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 10.9°C · 76 mm rain
- Auckland in OctoberNew Zealand · 155 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 11.3°C · 77 mm rain
- Hastings, New Zealand in OctoberNew Zealand · 225 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 8.8°C · 65 mm rain
- New Plymouth in OctoberNew Zealand · 238 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 9.5°C · 171 mm rain
- Palmerston North in OctoberNew Zealand · 301 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 8.1°C · 109 mm rain
- Lower Hutt in OctoberNew Zealand · 407 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 10.0°C · 88 mm rain
- Wellington in OctoberNew Zealand · 418 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 10.4°C · 83 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.