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Weather extremes
How extreme does Wellington's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Wellington 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 Wellington has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 17°F hotter than a normal March afternoon in Wellington (typical high near 69°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 17°F colder than a normal July night in Wellington (typical low near 40°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Wellington usually gets in the whole month of May (typical May total about 3.2 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.
Wellington's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — March's 86°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 28 years of daily observations at Paraparaumu Aws, a weather station, about 46 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.