New Zealand · 45.03°S 168.66°E · 30-year monthly averages, judged against the Warm preset (highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F, dry or showers)
No month in Queenstown fits the Warm preset (highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F, dry or showers): it is too cold. The table below shows which holiday types do fit.
Rain falls all year, 104–192 mm4.1–7.6 in a month, so there is no dry season. February is the driest month and October the wettest. January is the hottest month (highs of 19 °C66 °F) and July the coldest (6 °C43 °F); nights are below freezing from June to August.
The figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at -45.03, 168.66. This is a climate guide, not a forecast.
Pick the weather you like. Every month is then judged against it: temperature above the month names, rain below.
No month fits a Warm holiday here.
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Reading the chart. Gold means good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour shows the reason it does not. The temperature bar can be too cold or too hot; the rain bar can be too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar means that half fits but the other half does not. A gold month name means both halves fit.
What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the month's average daily high (the afternoon), judged against the preset's band (highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Queenstown's own year, not by raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and at least 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month that the preset does not allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season: 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate where the wettest month has at least three times the rain of the driest. Every monsoon month is also a rainy-season month; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.
| Month | Rain | High | Low | Season | Warm verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1285.0 | 1966 | 846 | rainy | too rainy |
| February | 1044.1 | 1966 | 846 | rainy | too rainy |
| March | 1686.6 | 1763 | 744 | rainy | too cold |
| April | 1285.0 | 1456 | 439 | rainy | too cold |
| May | 1526.0 | 1049 | 235 | rainy | too cold |
| June | 1365.4 | 643 | -130 | rainy | too cold |
| July | 1204.7 | 642 | -129 | rainy | too cold |
| August | 1204.7 | 846 | -130 | rainy | too cold |
| September | 1766.9 | 1050 | 134 | rainy | too cold |
| October | 1927.6 | 1355 | 337 | rainy | too cold |
| November | 1365.4 | 1559 | 540 | rainy | too cold |
| December | 1445.7 | 1763 | 744 | rainy | too cold |
| Looking for | Rule | Months that fit |
|---|---|---|
| Warm | highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F, dry or showers | |
| Tropical | highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F, any rain except monsoon | |
| Beach | highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F, dry or showers | |
| Cool | highs 3–19 °C37–66 °F, any rain except monsoon | March to December |
| Snow | highs below 3 °C37 °F, any rain |
Not a clear one. Rain falls all year, 104–192 mm4.1–7.6 in a month, so there is no dry season. February is the driest month and October the wettest.
January is the hottest month (highs of 19 °C66 °F) and July the coldest (6 °C43 °F); nights are below freezing from June to August. Annual rainfall is about 1,704 mm67 in.
The nearest destinations that fit the Warm preset in the months when Queenstown does not:
The interactive map colours the whole world by how well it fits the weather you like, in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.