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Wellington Region · 381,900 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 06:10

Air: Good

12°

Clear sky

Feels like 12°C

Wind

36 km/h

Gusts

49 km/h

Humidity

65 %

Pressure

998 hPa

Clouds

18 %

Storm

Rise 06:10 Set 19:58 Day 13 h 48 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Morning

Partly cloudy

12°11°

Feels like 12°

Wind ↑ WNW 31 km/h

Humidity 49 %

💧 0.1 mm

Afternoon

Rain showers

15°13°

Feels like 15°

Wind ↑ WNW 36 km/h

Gusts 60 km/h

Humidity 48 %

💧 0.9 mm

Evening

Light rain

13°8°

Feels like 13°

Wind ↑ S 43 km/h

Gusts 61 km/h

Humidity 66 %

💧 3.6 mm

13:00

13°

0.8mm

WNW 35

16:00

15°

0.1mm

W 36

19:00

13°

0.2mm

SSW 29

22:00

8°

3.4mm

S 43

01:00

9°

3.8mm

S 33

04:00

9°

S 32

07:00

10°

S 30

10:00

10°

S 29

Wellington 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)

Wellington climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 19 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 7 °C.

From 9 h 11 min of daylight in late June to 15 h 09 min in late December.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 60 mm and 95 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (14 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	19 °C	14 °C	63 mm
Feb	19 °C	14 °C	60 mm
Mar	18 °C	13 °C	65 mm
Apr	16 °C	11 °C	75 mm
May	14 °C	9 °C	75 mm
Jun	12 °C	8 °C	95 mm
Jul	11 °C	7 °C	90 mm
Aug	12 °C	7 °C	87 mm
Sep	13 °C	9 °C	82 mm
Oct	14 °C	9 °C	94 mm
Nov	15 °C	11 °C	80 mm
Dec	17 °C	13 °C	74 mm
Whole year	15 °C	10 °C	940 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 41.28° S, 174.78° 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 Wellington: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.54µg/m³

PM107µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Wellington

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

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

No open weather radar covers Wellington yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Wellington

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 11:38 Set 21:00

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Wed 11/11 3%

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

Look up a past day in Wellington

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

Wellington weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Wellington, Wellington Region: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 12 °C (feels like 12 °C) and the wind blows at 36 km/h.

Expected range today: 8 °C to 15 °C and around 8 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.

Wellington weather data for developers

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations