New Zealand · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Waitara.

January leads for comfortable weather in Waitara: typically 21.6°C by day, 13.2°C at night, with 70 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJanuary

Typical high21.6°C

Typical low13.2°C

Rain in January70 mm

Comfort

January

January · February · March

79climate match

Beach

January

January · February · March

45climate match

Outdoors

January

January · March · November

78climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 25 against January’s 79 — days reach only 13.5°C, 10° 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

7921.6° / 13.2°

Feb

7922.4° / 13.7°

Mar

7121.1° / 12°

Apr

5518.8° / 10.3°

May

4016.4° / 8.5°

Jun

2914.3° / 6.9°

Jul

2513.5° / 5.7°

Aug

2813.9° / 6.3°

Sep

3615° / 7.7°

Oct

4216.2° / 8.9°

Nov

5317.7° / 9.9°

Dec

6119.9° / 12.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Waitara — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 17 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	21.6°C	13.2°C	70 mm	8	19.1°C	14 h 37	79	Strong coverage
February	22.4°C	13.7°C	94 mm	8.2	20.1°C	13 h 38	79	Strong coverage
March	21.1°C	12°C	95 mm	8.7	19.6°C	12 h 28	71	Good coverage
April	18.8°C	10.3°C	123 mm	10.8	18.5°C	11 h 08	55	Good coverage
May	16.4°C	8.5°C	136 mm	12.8	17.0°C	10 h 02	40	Good coverage
June	14.3°C	6.9°C	138 mm	14	15.4°C	9 h 27	29	Good coverage
July	13.5°C	5.7°C	132 mm	14.7	14.2°C	9 h 40	25	Good coverage
August	13.9°C	6.3°C	129 mm	14.3	13.6°C	10 h 37	28	Good coverage
September	15°C	7.7°C	117 mm	13.8	13.7°C	11 h 54	36	Strong coverage
October	16.2°C	8.9°C	123 mm	13.2	14.5°C	13 h 11	42	Strong coverage
November	17.7°C	9.9°C	106 mm	10.8	15.8°C	14 h 20	53	Strong coverage
December	19.9°C	12.1°C	121 mm	11.7	17.6°C	14 h 53	61	Strong coverage

What has changed

Waitara runs +0.8°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

+0.8

Feb

+0.9

Mar

+0.5

Apr

+1.0

May

+1.1

Jun

+1.0

Jul

+0.9

Aug

+0.6

Sep

+0.4

Oct

+0.5

Nov

+0.5

Dec

+0.8

January daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.6°C.

Records at NEW PLYMOUTH AWS, 1944–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	30.6°C6 Jan 2013	4.2°C28 Jan 2012	61 mm24 Jan 2011	162 mm2023 · driest 9 mm in 2022	82
February	29.5°C1 Feb 2005	2.8°C26 Feb 1976	137 mm5 Feb 2022	409 mm2004 · driest 13 mm in 2003	82
March	29.0°C11 Mar 2013	2.6°C2 Mar 1965	78 mm30 Mar 2005	208 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1984	82
April	24.9°C5 Apr 1968	0.0°C25 Apr 1954	118 mm5 Apr 1993	229 mm1995 · driest 35 mm in 2003	82
May	22.1°C1 May 2023	-0.8°C22 May 2009	89 mm4 May 2023	232 mm2013 · driest 1 mm in 2001	82
June	19.8°C9 Jun 1983	-2.4°C29 Jun 1978	94 mm20 Jun 2015	257 mm2010 · driest 3 mm in 2002	82
July	18.2°C20 Jul 2020	-2.6°C26 Jul 2011	65 mm16 Jul 2012	265 mm2025 · driest 6 mm in 2002	82
August	19.9°C24 Aug 1989	-2.3°C16 Aug 2011	95 mm19 Aug 2022	287 mm2008 · driest 6 mm in 2001	82
September	21.6°C9 Sep 1989	-2.2°C29 Sep 1949	101 mm28 Sep 2003	219 mm2003 · driest 11 mm in 2000	81
October	24.3°C31 Oct 2023	-1.3°C6 Oct 2022	89 mm4 Oct 2011	351 mm1998 · driest 3 mm in 1985	81
November	26.4°C27 Nov 2010	1.2°C9 Nov 1966	91 mm27 Nov 1999	287 mm2020 · driest 19 mm in 2005	81
December	29.9°C24 Dec 2012	2.1°C1 Dec 1982	95 mm31 Dec 2011	329 mm2011 · driest 21 mm in 2017	81

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

How often, not how much — every day in NEW PLYMOUTH AWS’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	61%	25%	7%	25%	19.9–23.2°C
February	69%	28%	10%	36%	20.7–23.5°C
March	55%	29%	10%	38%	19.7–22.3°C
April	22%	35%	12%	49%	17.6–19.9°C
May	2%	42%	15%	59%	15.2–17.3°C
June	0%	46%	17%	69%	13.1–15.3°C
July	0%	47%	16%	69%	12.5–14.2°C
August	0%	46%	14%	67%	13.1–14.7°C
September	<1%	47%	14%	73%	14.3–15.7°C
October	<1%	42%	13%	57%	15.3–17.1°C
November	10%	36%	11%	51%	16.6–19.1°C
December	33%	37%	12%	50%	18.4–21.4°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.

1944Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 70-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1945.2020

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2208091
NOAA station: NZ000933090 · NEW PLYMOUTH AWS
Station distance: 5.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 23 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -39.00°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 17 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 NEW PLYMOUTH AWS is what differs

New Plymouth→Bell Block→Stratford→Vogeltown→Westown→Moturoa→

Or put two places side by side: Waitara vs New Plymouth

Best time to visitWaitara.

January

January

January

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Waitara runs +0.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Waitara.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Waitara runs +0.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.