New Zealand · 45.03°S 168.66°E · monthly climate normals, judged against the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers)
No month in Queenstown fits the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers) — it is too cold. The table below shows which holiday types do fit.
Rain falls year-round, 104–192 mm4.1–7.6 in a month, so there is no dry season to aim for; February is the driest month and October the wettest. January is the hottest month at 14 °C57 °F and July the coldest at 2 °C36 °F.
Figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at -45.03, 168.66 — a climate guide, not a forecast.
Pick the weather you like and every month is 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 is good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour names the reason it doesn't — the temperature bar can be too cold or too hot, the rain bar too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar is a half that fits while the other half fails; a gold month name means both fit.
What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the monthly mean, judged against the preset's band (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Queenstown's own year rather than raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month the preset doesn't 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 whose wettest month is at least three times its driest — so every monsoon month is rainy season too; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.
| Month | Rain | Mean | Season | Warm verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1285.0 | 1456 | rainy | too cold |
| February | 1044.1 | 1456 | rainy | too cold |
| March | 1686.6 | 1253 | rainy | too cold |
| April | 1285.0 | 947 | rainy | too cold |
| May | 1526.0 | 642 | rainy | too cold |
| June | 1365.4 | 337 | rainy | too cold |
| July | 1204.7 | 236 | rainy | too cold |
| August | 1204.7 | 438 | rainy | too cold |
| September | 1766.9 | 642 | rainy | too cold |
| October | 1927.6 | 846 | rainy | too cold |
| November | 1365.4 | 1050 | rainy | too cold |
| December | 1445.7 | 1254 | rainy | too cold |
| Looking for | Rule | Months that fit |
|---|---|---|
| Warm | mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers | |
| Tropical | mean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, anything but the monsoon | |
| Beach | mean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, dry or showers | |
| Cool | mean 0–14 °C32–57 °F, anything but the monsoon | all year |
| Snow | mean below 0 °C32 °F, any rain |
Not a distinct one. Rain falls year-round, 104–192 mm4.1–7.6 in a month, so there is no dry season to aim for; February is the driest month and October the wettest.
January is the hottest month at 14 °C57 °F and July the coldest at 2 °C36 °F. Annual rainfall totals about 1,704 mm67 in.
The nearest destinations that do fit the Warm preset in the months Queenstown doesn't:
The interactive map colours the whole world by how it fits your picks in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.