New Zealand · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Brown Owl.

February leads for comfortable weather in Brown Owl: typically 21.6°C by day, 13°C at night, with 64 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortFebruary

Typical high21.6°C

Typical low13°C

Rain in February64 mm

Comfort

February

February · January · March

82climate match

Beach

January

January · February · March

47climate match

Outdoors

March

March · January · February

88climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 30 against February’s 82 — days reach only 12.9°C, 11° 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

8121.2° / 13°

Feb

8221.6° / 13°

Mar

7320.3° / 11°

Apr

5817.9° / 8.9°

May

4615.8° / 7.6°

Jun

3313.6° / 5.6°

Jul

3012.9° / 4.3°

Aug

3213.4° / 5.2°

Sep

4214.7° / 7.1°

Oct

4616° / 8.7°

Nov

5817.5° / 9.8°

Dec

6719.7° / 12°

Monthly climate evidence for Brown Owl — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 31 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	21.2°C	13°C	53 mm	6.7	17.2°C	14 h 49	81	Strong coverage
February	21.6°C	13°C	64 mm	6.2	18.1°C	13 h 45	82	Good coverage
March	20.3°C	11°C	60 mm	7.3	17.5°C	12 h 29	73	Strong coverage
April	17.9°C	8.9°C	78 mm	8.4	16.6°C	11 h 03	58	Strong coverage
May	15.8°C	7.6°C	92 mm	9.6	15.5°C	9 h 52	46	Strong coverage
June	13.6°C	5.6°C	96 mm	11.1	14.0°C	9 h 14	33	Good coverage
July	12.9°C	4.3°C	85 mm	10.9	13.0°C	9 h 29	30	Strong coverage
August	13.4°C	5.2°C	90 mm	11.2	12.8°C	10 h 30	32	Strong coverage
September	14.7°C	7.1°C	80 mm	10.3	13.0°C	11 h 53	42	Strong coverage
October	16°C	8.7°C	99 mm	10.8	13.6°C	13 h 16	46	Strong coverage
November	17.5°C	9.8°C	79 mm	8.9	14.6°C	14 h 30	58	Strong coverage
December	19.7°C	12°C	85 mm	9.8	16.0°C	15 h 07	67	Strong coverage

What has changed

Brown Owl 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

+0.5

Feb

+0.6

Mar

+0.4

Apr

+0.8

May

+1.5

Jun

+1.5

Jul

+1.2

Aug

+0.8

Sep

+0.5

Oct

+0.8

Nov

+0.5

Dec

+0.8

February daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.7°C.

Records at PARAPARAUMU AWS, 1972–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	29.0°C6 Jan 1975	3.7°C4 Jan 2007	56 mm6 Jan 2005	103 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 2008	55
February	29.9°C6 Feb 2016	3.1°C15 Feb 1993	71 mm4 Feb 2022	363 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2025	55
March	30.0°C16 Mar 2014	0.8°C21 Mar 1974	81 mm9 Mar 1990	155 mm1990 · driest 2 mm in 2000	55
April	26.3°C18 Apr 2014	-1.0°C30 Apr 1988	68 mm8 Apr 2015	205 mm2023 · driest 14 mm in 1988	55
May	22.6°C11 May 2001	-3.3°C30 May 1992	114 mm14 May 2015	218 mm2015 · driest 1 mm in 2001	55
June	19.9°C2 Jun 2015	-4.4°C8 Jun 2009	51 mm18 Jun 2020	210 mm2022 · driest 5 mm in 2023	55
July	19.2°C26 Jul 2022	-4.8°C1 Jul 2001	53 mm5 Jul 2006	209 mm2022 · driest 2 mm in 2002	55
August	20.6°C15 Aug 2009	-3.5°C28 Aug 1993	69 mm19 Aug 2022	211 mm2022 · driest 12 mm in 1998	54
September	21.7°C26 Sep 1989	-3.8°C6 Sep 1997	65 mm17 Sep 2016	192 mm2024 · driest 1 mm in 1999	54
October	22.7°C6 Oct 2001	-1.7°C2 Oct 1994	93 mm20 Oct 1998	248 mm1998 · driest 36 mm in 1991	54
November	25.6°C29 Nov 1978	0.0°C22 Nov 2002	69 mm7 Nov 1994	205 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 2007	54
December	29.2°C24 Dec 2012	2.6°C3 Dec 1982	87 mm5 Dec 2021	329 mm2021 · driest 13 mm in 1988	54

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

How often, not how much — every day in PARAPARAUMU 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	60%	21%	5%	23%	19.9–23.1°C
February	66%	23%	7%	29%	20.4–22.8°C
March	44%	24%	6%	26%	19.0–21.6°C
April	11%	27%	8%	35%	16.8–19.1°C
May	1%	32%	9%	46%	14.6–16.6°C
June	0%	37%	9%	53%	12.3–15.0°C
July	0%	35%	10%	51%	11.9–13.8°C
August	0%	38%	10%	52%	12.4–14.3°C
September	<1%	35%	8%	55%	13.8–15.4°C
October	<1%	35%	11%	47%	15.2–16.8°C
November	9%	30%	8%	40%	16.5–19.1°C
December	31%	32%	9%	41%	18.2–21.4°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.

1972Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 40-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 2009.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 6244886
NOAA station: NZ000093417 · PARAPARAUMU AWS
Station distance: 23.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -41.10°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 31 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 PARAPARAUMU AWS is what differs

Upper Hutt→Paraparaumu→Levin→Waikanae→Whitby→Carterton→

Or put two places side by side: Brown Owl vs Upper Hutt

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February

January

March

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Brown Owl runs +0.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Brown Owl.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,
and named.