New Zealand · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Hokitika.

February leads for comfortable weather in Hokitika: typically 21.2°C by day, 11.3°C at night, with 54 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortFebruary

Typical high21.2°C

Typical low11.3°C

Rain in February54 mm

Comfort

February

February · January · December

79climate match

Beach

February

February · January · December

44climate match

Outdoors

December

December · February · March

90climate match

The weakest month is June, scoring 22 against February’s 79 — days reach only 11.9°C, 12° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

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

7821.4° / 11.2°

Feb

7921.2° / 11.3°

Mar

6619.5° / 9.3°

Apr

5317.1° / 6.7°

May

4014.6° / 4.9°

Jun

2211.9° / 2.3°

Jul

2411.6° / 1.4°

Aug

3112.5° / 2.6°

Sep

4414.4° / 4.3°

Oct

4916.2° / 5.8°

Nov

6218° / 7.6°

Dec

7019.7° / 10.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Hokitika — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 13 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	21.4°C	11.2°C	63 mm	6.6	17.2°C	14 h 59	78	Strong coverage
February	21.2°C	11.3°C	54 mm	5.4	18.0°C	13 h 51	79	Strong coverage
March	19.5°C	9.3°C	73 mm	6.7	17.1°C	12 h 31	66	Good coverage
April	17.1°C	6.7°C	69 mm	7.6	16.0°C	11 h	53	Strong coverage
May	14.6°C	4.9°C	78 mm	8.6	14.9°C	9 h 44	40	Strong coverage
June	11.9°C	2.3°C	105 mm	9.4	13.8°C	9 h 03	22	Strong coverage
July	11.6°C	1.4°C	77 mm	8.3	13.0°C	9 h 19	24	Strong coverage
August	12.5°C	2.6°C	72 mm	7.2	12.4°C	10 h 24	31	Strong coverage
September	14.4°C	4.3°C	45 mm	6.6	12.6°C	11 h 52	44	Strong coverage
October	16.2°C	5.8°C	65 mm	8.3	13.3°C	13 h 20	49	Strong coverage
November	18°C	7.6°C	48 mm	6.7	14.6°C	14 h 39	62	Strong coverage
December	19.7°C	10.1°C	59 mm	6.9	16.0°C	15 h 18	70	Strong coverage

What has changed

Hokitika runs +2.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+4.1

Feb

+3.3

Mar

+1.7

Apr

+1.4

May

+1.5

Jun

-0.1

Jul

+0.4

Aug

+0.4

Sep

+1.5

Oct

+3.1

Nov

+3.2

Dec

+3.6

February daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.4°C.

Records at HOKITIKA AERODROME, 1964–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	37.1°C26 Jan 2021	3.0°C18 Jan 2013	57 mm3 Jan 1994	273 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 1989	62
February	35.9°C6 Feb 2011	2.5°C9 Feb 2017	67 mm19 Feb 1994	265 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1981	62
March	31.1°C6 Mar 2007	-1.3°C18 Mar 2020	119 mm2 Mar 1993	267 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1982	62
April	29.9°C5 Apr 2021	-2.9°C27 Apr 2024	65 mm21 Apr 1994	184 mm1993 · driest 3 mm in 1998	62
May	26.6°C6 May 2015	-6.4°C29 May 2015	93 mm15 May 1992	312 mm1994 · driest 1 mm in 2001	62
June	22.0°C22 Jun 2016	-5.8°C7 Jun 2012	72 mm20 Jun 1993	342 mm1993 · driest 1 mm in 2001	62
July	22.4°C15 Jul 2012	-6.3°C26 Jul 2011	89 mm23 Jul 2023	313 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 1989	62
August	22.2°C30 Aug 2020	-6.1°C4 Aug 2024	115 mm26 Aug 1992	518 mm1992 · driest 1 mm in 2002	62
September	24.8°C23 Sep 2020	-4.8°C30 Sep 2020	64 mm22 Sep 1993	115 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1999	61
October	28.1°C31 Oct 2020	-4.0°C10 Oct 2013	68 mm5 Oct 1993	289 mm1993 · driest 12 mm in 2015	61
November	31.3°C28 Nov 2019	-2.7°C5 Nov 2015	67 mm12 Nov 1992	193 mm1992 · driest 2 mm in 2017	61
December	32.9°C2 Dec 2015	0.1°C2 Dec 2006	57 mm21 Dec 2006	213 mm1992 · driest 1 mm in 2003	61

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

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was February (scoring 80); on 2011–2025 it is January (89). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in HOKITIKA AERODROME’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	54%	21%	6%	15%	18.2–24.1°C
February	54%	21%	6%	21%	18.2–22.9°C
March	34%	22%	6%	24%	17.9–21.2°C
April	18%	24%	7%	26%	15.7–18.6°C
May	9%	27%	8%	34%	13.0–16.2°C
June	1%	31%	9%	37%	11.1–13.2°C
July	<1%	27%	7%	31%	10.8–12.8°C
August	1%	24%	7%	26%	11.8–13.8°C
September	8%	21%	5%	20%	12.8–16.1°C
October	16%	26%	6%	26%	14.2–18.2°C
November	23%	23%	5%	23%	15.2–20.2°C
December	34%	23%	7%	24%	17.0–22.0°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.

1964Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 50-year average. Warmest: 1999. Coolest: 1992.2021

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2206894
NOAA station: NZ000936150 · HOKITIKA AERODROME
Station distance: 1.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -42.72°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 13 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 HOKITIKA AERODROME is what differs

Greymouth→Runanga→Karoro→Dobson→Blaketown→Kumara→

Or put two places side by side: Hokitika vs Greymouth

Best time to visitHokitika.

February

February

December

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Hokitika runs +2.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Hokitika.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Hokitika runs +2.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.