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Timaru weather

Canterbury · 29,300 inhabitants · Saturday, November 7 · updated 07:21

Air: Good

13°

Mainly clear

Feels like 13°C

Wind

15 km/h

Gusts

30 km/h

Humidity

90 %

Pressure

1009 hPa

Clouds

29 %

Storm

Rise 06:07 Set 20:30 Day 14 h 22 min UV 5 · Moderate

Timaru 14-day forecast

Trend

Morning

Mainly clear

14°13°

Feels like 14°

Wind ↑ SSE 15 km/h

Gusts 30 km/h

Humidity 86 %

Afternoon

Overcast

14°

Feels like 14°

Wind ↑ E 12 km/h

Humidity 82 %

Evening

Partly cloudy

14°12°

Feels like 14°

Wind ↑ S 11 km/h

Humidity 87 %

13:00

14°

E 12

16:00

14°

ESE 12

19:00

14°

E 11

22:00

12°

S 10

01:00

12°

0.1mm

SSE 5

04:00

12°

S 8

07:00

13°

SSW 10

10:00

13°

S 14

Rain radar around Timaru

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Timaru, 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 Timaru: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.53µg/m³

PM104µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Timaru 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 Timaru

Waning crescent

6 % illuminated · 27.3 days

Rise 04:41 Set 18:27

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 Timaru

Tide station used: Timaru

Tide times in Timaru

🌊 Sea surface

13.2 °C

satellite, 7/11

Sea state

Rippled

waves 0.4 m

Period

8 s

Swell

0.4 m

FriFri 06/11

High tide 14:09 2.1 m

Low tide 20:19 0.3 m

TodaySat 07/11

High tide 02:32 2.1 m

Low tide 08:41 0.3 m

High tide 14:55 2.1 m

Low tide 21:02 0.3 m

TomorrowSun 08/11

High tide 03:16 2.1 m

Low tide 09:24 0.4 m

High tide 15:36 2.1 m

Low tide 21:41 0.4 m

MonMon 09/11

High tide 03:56 2.1 m

Low tide 10:04 0.4 m

High tide 16:13 2.0 m

Low tide 22:18 0.4 m

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

Look up a past day in Timaru

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

Timaru weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Timaru, 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 13 °C (feels like 13 °C) and the wind blows at 15 km/h.

Expected range today: 12 °C to 14 °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 Timaru.

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