Pauanui, New Zealand Climate
The warmest month is February, with an average high of 21°C; the coldest is August, with an average low of 12°C. A normal year brings 1138 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Sep 28
- Normal high
- 15°C
- Normal low
- 13°C
- Reanalysis high
- 17°Cin 2005
- Reanalysis low
- 9°Cin 1993
- Chance of a wet day
- 46%
- Daylight
- 12 h 20 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21°C | 18°C | 24°C (2020) | 13°C (1997) | 67 mm | 8.8 |
| February | 21°C | 19°C | 25°C (2020) | 14°C (1993) | 77 mm | 9.4 |
| March | 21°C | 18°C | 24°C (2016) | 13°C (1993) | 85 mm | 10.4 |
| April | 19°C | 17°C | 23°C (2014) | 11°C (1992) | 101 mm | 11.8 |
| May | 17°C | 15°C | 21°C (2016) | 9°C (2009) | 103 mm | 13.4 |
| June | 15°C | 13°C | 19°C (2012) | 9°C (1994) | 119 mm | 13.9 |
| July | 14°C | 12°C | 18°C (1998) | 8°C (2015) | 127 mm | 15.0 |
| August | 14°C | 12°C | 18°C (2016) | 7°C (2004) | 120 mm | 16.0 |
| September | 15°C | 13°C | 18°C (2003) | 9°C (1993) | 99 mm | 13.2 |
| October | 16°C | 13°C | 19°C (2003) | 8°C (1992) | 83 mm | 12.5 |
| November | 17°C | 15°C | 22°C (2019) | 11°C (2006) | 64 mm | 10.1 |
| December | 19°C | 17°C | 23°C (1998) | 11°C (2004) | 93 mm | 11.0 |
| Year | 17°C | 15°C | 1138 mm | 146 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
1138 mm in a normal year, most in July.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Pauanui.
The muggiest month is February, when 20 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16°C | 79% | 12% | 38% | 39% | 11% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 16°C | 79% | 4% | 35% | 42% | 19% | 1% | 0% |
| March | 15°C | 77% | 13% | 43% | 36% | 7% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 14°C | 78% | 35% | 42% | 20% | 4% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 12°C | 78% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 11°C | 79% | 81% | 18% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 10°C | 79% | 92% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 10°C | 79% | 94% | 6% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 10°C | 79% | 85% | 15% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 11°C | 79% | 75% | 24% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 12°C | 78% | 61% | 33% | 7% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 14°C | 80% | 26% | 41% | 30% | 3% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is January, with the sky 56 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is July, at 64 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is July, averaging 23.8 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Dec 19, with 14 h 43 min of daylight; the shortest is Jun 17, with 9 h 37 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Pauanui in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-28. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.