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Weather extremes
How extreme does Rotorua's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Rotorua has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Rotorua has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 17°F hotter than a normal February afternoon in Rotorua (typical high near 75°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 15°F colder than a normal August night in Rotorua (typical low near 45°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Rotorua usually gets in the whole month of January (typical January total about 2.6 in).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Rotorua's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — February's 93°F is about 17°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 24 years of daily observations at Taupo Aws, a weather station, about 68 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.