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New Zealand Weather Forecasting

New Zealand is known for having “four seasons in one day”.  Due to the size of the country and open seas surrounding the land, New Zealand can quite often having weather changes quickly.  Below are the current day’s weather forecast for the three main cities of New Zealand.  Followed by climate averages for the whole of New Zealand.

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Climate Data Summary - Various Locations

  • Data are mean annual values for the 1971-2000 period, for locations having at least 5 complete years of data
  • Extreme temperatures are for the full historical record
  • Station details for each location are available in separate table
  • Monthly temperature and rainfall data for each location are recorded in separate tables

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Rainfall Wet-days Sunshine Temperature Ground frost Wind Gale days
Mean Very Very mean speed mean speed
Highest Lowest at least
Location mm >= 1.0 mm hours °C °C °C days km/h 63km/h
KAITAIA 1334 134 2070 15.7 30.2 0.9 1 15 2
WHANGAREI 1490 132 1973 15.5 30.8 -0.1 11 16 1
AUCKLAND 1240 137 2060 15.1 30.5 -2.5 10 17 2
TAURANGA 1198 111 2260 14.5 33.7 -5.3 42 16 5
HAMILTON 1190 129 2009 13.7 34.7 -9.9 63 12 2
ROTORUA 1401 117 2117 12.8 31.5 -5.2 57 13 1
GISBORNE 1051 110 2180 14.3 38.1 -5.3 33 15 2
TAUPO 1102 116 1965 11.9 33.0 -6.3 69 13 2
NEW PLYMOUTH 1432 138 2182 13.7 30.3 -2.4 15 20 5
NAPIER 803 91 2188 14.5 35.8 -3.9 29 14 3
WANGANUI 882 115 2043 14.0 32.3 -2.3 7 18 5
PALMERSTON NORTH 967 121 1733 13.3 33.0 -6.0 38 17 3
MASTERTON, 979 130 1915 12.7 35.2 -6.9 60 11 1
WELLINGTON 1249 123 2065 12.8 31.1 -1.9 10 22 22
NELSON 970 94 2405 12.6 36.3 -6.6 88 12 2
BLENHEIM 655 76 2409 12.9 36.0 -8.8 60 13 4
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