New Zealand · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Fendalton.

January leads for comfortable weather in Fendalton: typically 23.3°C by day, 10.8°C at night, with 44 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJanuary

Typical high23.3°C

Typical low10.8°C

Rain in January44 mm

Comfort

January

January · February · December

86climate match

Beach

January

January · February · December

50climate match

Outdoors

March

March · February · December

91climate match

The weakest month is June, scoring 23 against January’s 86 — days reach only 11.8°C, 12° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 0.3°C.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

8623.3° / 10.8°

Feb

8522.6° / 10.6°

Mar

7220.4° / 8.6°

Apr

5417.4° / 5.3°

May

4114.6° / 3.1°

Jun

2311.8° / 0.3°

Jul

2311.4° / -0.3°

Aug

3212.6° / 1.2°

Sep

4414.9° / 2.6°

Oct

5217.3° / 4°

Nov

6619.5° / 6.6°

Dec

7521.2° / 9.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Fendalton — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 25 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	23.3°C	10.8°C	44 mm	6.3	16.5°C	15 h 05	86	Good coverage
February	22.6°C	10.6°C	39 mm	5	16.9°C	13 h 54	85	Good coverage
March	20.4°C	8.6°C	49 mm	5.9	16.0°C	12 h 31	72	Good coverage
April	17.4°C	5.3°C	56 mm	7.4	14.4°C	10 h 58	54	Good coverage
May	14.6°C	3.1°C	54 mm	7.5	12.7°C	9 h 40	41	Good coverage
June	11.8°C	0.3°C	71 mm	8.7	10.7°C	8 h 58	23	Good coverage
July	11.4°C	-0.3°C	60 mm	7.4	9.5°C	9 h 14	23	Good coverage
August	12.6°C	1.2°C	52 mm	7	9.1°C	10 h 21	32	Good coverage
September	14.9°C	2.6°C	41 mm	6.6	10.0°C	11 h 52	44	Good coverage
October	17.3°C	4°C	46 mm	7.6	11.5°C	13 h 23	52	Good coverage
November	19.5°C	6.6°C	42 mm	6.5	13.6°C	14 h 44	66	Good coverage
December	21.2°C	9.6°C	50 mm	7	15.1°C	15 h 24	75	Good coverage

Records at CHRISTCHURCH INTL, 1960–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	37.1°C26 Jan 2021	1.0°C18 Jan 1984	53 mm13 Jan 1984	115 mm2018 · driest 3 mm in 2020	47
February	36.0°C10 Feb 1981	1.5°C20 Feb 2003	60 mm12 Feb 2022	149 mm2022 · driest 6 mm in 2003	48
March	32.0°C10 Mar 1990	-1.3°C18 Mar 2020	67 mm5 Mar 2014	151 mm1965 · driest 3 mm in 1992	48
April	29.9°C5 Apr 2021	-4.0°C27 Apr 1979	74 mm11 Apr 1968	188 mm1968 · driest 0 mm in 1985	49
May	26.6°C6 May 2015	-6.4°C29 May 2015	81 mm1 May 2025	163 mm2010 · driest 10 mm in 1991	49
June	22.5°C7 Jun 1988	-6.1°C25 Jun 2005	70 mm1 Jun 2019	187 mm2013 · driest 2 mm in 1979	49
July	22.4°C15 Jul 2012	-7.0°C18 Jul 1980	89 mm23 Jul 2023	313 mm2022 · driest 1 mm in 1993	49
August	22.2°C30 Aug 2020	-6.1°C4 Aug 2024	55 mm6 Aug 2004	153 mm1990 · driest 12 mm in 2020	48
September	26.2°C28 Sep 1987	-4.8°C30 Sep 2020	40 mm29 Sep 2003	108 mm1983 · driest 2 mm in 1980	48
October	29.1°C25 Oct 2020	-4.0°C10 Oct 2013	50 mm25 Oct 2024	132 mm1989 · driest 4 mm in 1961	48
November	31.4°C3 Nov 2019	-2.7°C5 Nov 2015	53 mm25 Nov 1986	120 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 1981	48
December	36.0°C21 Dec 2015	0.1°C2 Dec 2006	68 mm21 Dec 1963	131 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 1980	48

Typical days per month at CHRISTCHURCH INTL, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	9	3	0	1
February	7	2	0	1
March	4	<1	0	1
April	2	0	1	2
May	<1	0	4	2
June	0	0	10	2
July	0	0	11	2
August	0	0	8	2
September	0	0	5	1
October	1	0	2	1
November	4	<1	<1	1
December	6	1	0	2

How often, not how much — every day in CHRISTCHURCH INTL’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	68%	21%	4%	15%	21.4–25.3°C
February	60%	21%	5%	18%	20.9–24.7°C
March	41%	23%	6%	25%	18.9–21.9°C
April	25%	25%	6%	29%	15.7–19.4°C
May	11%	26%	6%	33%	12.8–16.8°C
June	1%	29%	6%	36%	10.2–13.3°C
July	<1%	28%	6%	33%	10.3–12.6°C
August	2%	27%	5%	30%	10.5–14.0°C
September	11%	23%	4%	23%	14.0–17.0°C
October	27%	25%	5%	25%	16.0–18.9°C
November	39%	24%	5%	25%	18.3–21.3°C
December	47%	25%	5%	26%	20.2–23.5°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2191167
NOAA station: NZM00093781 · CHRISTCHURCH INTL
Station distance: 6.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 17 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -43.52°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 25 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from CHRISTCHURCH INTL is what differs

Christchurch→Rolleston→Rangiora→Kaiapoi→Halswell→Wigram→

Or put two places side by side: Fendalton vs Christchurch

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January

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Fendalton.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.