10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
8°
Feels like 7°
Wind↑ W 5 km/h
Humidity 80 %
Evening
Clear sky
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ ENE 24 km/h
Humidity 66 %
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Partly cloudy
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ NE 28 km/h
Gusts34 km/h
Humidity 78 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
14°
Feels like 14°
Wind↑ SE 7 km/h
Humidity 80 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ NNW 19 km/h
Gusts39 km/h
Humidity 68 %
Evening
Clear sky
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ N 16 km/h
Humidity 61 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Partly cloudy
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ WSW 17 km/h
Gusts29 km/h
Humidity 72 %
Evening
Rain showers
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ SSW 9 km/h
Gusts15 km/h
Humidity 67 %
💧 1.1 mm
Christchurch forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Christchurch climate: what a normal year looks like
Ranked against the 51 towns of 20,000+ people in New Zealand, Christchurch has the lowest yearly rainfall.
From 8 h 56 min of daylight in late June to 15 h 25 min in late December.
The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 21 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 2 °C.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 43 mm and 62 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (16 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
21 °C
12 °C
56 mm
Feb
21 °C
12 °C
43 mm
Mar
20 °C
11 °C
47 mm
Apr
17 °C
8 °C
55 mm
May
14 °C
6 °C
54 mm
Jun
11 °C
3 °C
62 mm
Jul
11 °C
2 °C
57 mm
Aug
12 °C
4 °C
58 mm
Sep
15 °C
6 °C
52 mm
Oct
16 °C
7 °C
60 mm
Nov
18 °C
9 °C
59 mm
Dec
20 °C
11 °C
62 mm
Whole year
16 °C
8 °C
660 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 43.53° S, 172.63° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Christchurch: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.54µg/m³
PM106µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Christchurch
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Christchurch, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Christchurch yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Christchurch
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 11:55 Set 21:01
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Wed11/113%
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Pacific/Auckland); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Christchurch
Curious about the weather in Christchurch on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Christchurch weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Christchurch, E9: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 9 °C (feels like 7 °C) and the wind blows at 13 km/h.
Expected range today: 8 °C to 14 °C and around 2 mm of rain. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
Christchurch weather data for developers
Use the Christchurch forecast in your own website or app: one JSON call returns weather, air quality, tides and sun and moon times. The free key needs no card.
