Local Climate
- The average temperature in Wellington, New Zealand is 12.5 °C (55 °F).
- The average temperature range is 8.5 °C.
- The highest monthly average high temperature is 20 °C (68 °F) in January & February.
- The lowest monthly average low temperature is 5 °C (41 °F) in July.
- Wellington’s climate receives an average of 1251 mm (49.3 in) of rainfall per year, or 104 mm (4.1 in) per month.
- On average there are 159 days per year with more than 0.1 mm (0.004 in) of rainfall (precipitation) or 13 days with a quantity of rain, sleet, snow etc. per month.
- The driest weather is in January when an average of 74 mm (2.9 in) of rainfall (precipitation) occurrs across 10 days.
- The wettest weather is in August when an average of 135 mm (5.3 in) of rainfall (precipitation) occurrs across 16 days.
- The average annual relative humidity is 72.9% and average monthly relative humidity ranges from 67% in January to 78% in June.
- Average sunlight hours in Wellington range between 3.5 hours per day in July and 7.5 hours per day in January.
- There are an average of 2012 hours of sunlight per year with an average of 5.5 hours of sunlight per day.
- There are an average of 0 days per year with frost in Wellington and in July there are an average of 0 days with frost.