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Kaikoura weather

Canterbury · Saturday, November 7 · updated 07:22

Air: Good

15°

Mainly clear

Feels like 15°C

Wind

5 km/h

Gusts

7 km/h

Humidity

78 %

Pressure

1008 hPa

Clouds

26 %

Storm

Rise 06:02 Set 20:15 Day 14 h 13 min UV 3 · Moderate

Kaikoura 14-day forecast

Trend

Morning

Partly cloudy

15°

Feels like 15°

Wind ↑ SE 9 km/h

Humidity 78 %

Afternoon

Overcast

16°15°

Feels like 16°

Wind ↑ SSW 12 km/h

Humidity 81 %

Evening

Partly cloudy

15°14°

Feels like 15°

Wind ↑ SW 10 km/h

Humidity 90 %

13:00

16°

ESE 4

16:00

15°

SSW 12

19:00

15°

SW 7

22:00

14°

SW 10

01:00

13°

WNW 3

04:00

13°

SSW 12

07:00

13°

WSW 6

10:00

13°

S 12

Rain radar around Kaikoura

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kaikoura, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

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Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Air you breathe in Kaikoura: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.50µg/m³

PM101µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Kaikoura forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.1° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Moon over Kaikoura

Waning crescent

6 % illuminated · 27.3 days

Rise 04:34 Set 18:13

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Wed 11/11 3%

Thu 12/11 8%

Fri 13/11 15%

Sat 14/11 23%

Sun 15/11 33%

Mon 16/11 43%

Tue 17/11 54% First quarter

Wed 18/11 64%

Thu 19/11 74%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Pacific/Auckland); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Kaikoura

Tide station used: Kaikoura

Tide times in Kaikoura

🌊 Sea surface

14.1 °C

satellite, 7/11

Sea state

Smooth

waves 0.7 m

Period

7 s

Swell

0.7 m

FriFri 06/11

High tide 15:18 1.6 m

Low tide 21:28 0.3 m

TodaySat 07/11

High tide 03:37 1.6 m

Low tide 09:52 0.3 m

High tide 16:02 1.6 m

Low tide 22:12 0.3 m

TomorrowSun 08/11

High tide 04:23 1.6 m

Low tide 10:40 0.3 m

High tide 16:48 1.6 m

Low tide 22:57 0.3 m

MonMon 09/11

High tide 05:10 1.6 m

Low tide 11:30 0.3 m

High tide 17:34 1.5 m

Low tide 23:44 0.4 m

Heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Kaikoura

Curious about the weather in Kaikoura on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Kaikoura weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kaikoura, Canterbury: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 13 °C to 16 °C and a dry sky. 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, plus the tide times for Kaikoura.

Other big cities nearby

Christchurch 152 km 15°

Wellington 154 km 15°

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1124 weather stations