It is 59.0°F at Wellington Intl, 01:30 local on Saturday. Wellington is the 183rd hottest of 230 capitals by annual mean, and the 158th hottest of the 216 capitals reporting right now.
Wellington Intl · NZWN41.3°S 174.8°E · 12 m48 readings in 24 h · METARRecords since 2002📍 Open in Google Maps
Latest reading
59.0°F
15.0°C · 01:30 local
48 readings held for the last 24 hours, every one of them checked before it appeared.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Today so far
68.0°F / 59.0°F
20.0°C / 15.0°C
Normal for 31 October here is a high of 63.9°F.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome · normals from NOAA GHCN-Daily
All-time record high
85.3°F
29.6°C · recorded in °C
25 December 2012. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 2002 to 2026
All-time record low
30.9°F
−0.6°C · recorded in °C
8 June 2009. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.
1Wellington is the 183rd warmest of 230 capitals by annual mean. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
2February is the hottest month here, averaging 70.9°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
3The highest reading in the archive is 85.3°F, on 25 December 2012, and it has stood for 14 years. Source: GHCN-Daily𝕏
Did you knowRecords here begin in 2002 at Wellington Intl, and the archive holds 13,469 daily values from it, counting each day's maximum and minimum separately.
Did you knowThe station files about 48 readings a day, via METAR reports from the aerodrome.
Did you knowThe thermometer sits 12 m above sea level, the 42nd highest of 62 stations we hold in New Zealand.
Did you knowReadings are recorded in Celsius. Any Fahrenheit figure on this page is a conversion, not a separate measurement.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Wellington by annual mean.
February is the warmest month at Wellington Intl, averaging a daily high of 70.9°F. That is an average of every February day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Wellington?+−
July is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 55.2°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 47.7°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Wellington?+−
85.3°F, on 25 December 2012, in the record held for Wellington Intl. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Wellington?+−
30.9°F, on 8 June 2009, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at Wellington Intl. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.
15.7°F between February and July, the 113th widest swing among the 230 capitals ranked here. The big figure on each card is the average high for that month across the whole record; the two lines beneath it are the hottest and coldest days ever recorded in it.
Across 15 Februarys, 2003 to 2026, this station's February average has risen about 0.5° per decade. A fit through this station's own record, not a climate finding. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily, per station per year per month
📅 On this day here · 31 OctoberRecord for the date: 71.4°F, in 2022. Today reached 68.0°F, 3.4°F short.
4Its best placing worldwide is 1012th of 8,915 reporting stations, across the 50 days of rankings held so far. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
1July is the coolest month, averaging 55.2°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
2The year swings 15.7°F between its warmest and coolest months, the 113th widest of 230 capitals. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
3The widest single day we have recorded here spanned 10.8°F, on 8 November 2026. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
4It has not dropped below freezing on any of the last 7 days. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
5Within New Zealand its best placing is 1st of 61 stations, over the 50 days of rankings held. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
What is the weather in Wellington right now?+−
59.0°F at Wellington Intl, measured at 01:30 local on Saturday, 14 November 2026. This is the live reading from the station this page reads, after our quality checks. It is an observation rather than a forecast: it says what the weather IS, not what it will be.
When did temperature records begin in Wellington?+−
The archive held here for Wellington, New Zealand starts in 2002, which is 24 years of record, and 13,469 stored daily values, each one a maximum or a minimum.
Which station measures Wellington's temperature?+−
Wellington Intl (NZWN), 12 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
How is the temperature measured and checked?+−
Readings arrive from METAR reports from the aerodrome and are quality controlled before they appear: a value outside a plausible range, or one that jumps further than air can move in the time between readings, is rejected rather than published. Every figure shows its source and the time it was observed.
Are there gaps in Wellington's record?+−
The record runs from 2002 to 2026, and it is not equally deep across the year: the thinnest of the 12 months has 15 years of readings behind its average and the fullest has 22. Gaps are left as gaps: a month the archive never covered is omitted rather than filled in, which is why some months on this page carry no record.
Is Wellington getting hotter?+−
In its hottest month it has. Across 15 Februarys between 2003 and 2026, the average February high at Wellington Intl has risen about 0.5°F per decade. That is a straight-line fit through this one station's record: it is not corrected for a station that moved or changed instrument, and it is a description of the readings rather than a climate attribution.
How does Wellington compare with other capitals?+−
It is the 183rd warmest of the 230 capital cities with a full twelve months of record here, ranked on annual mean rather than on any single day, and 113th by the width of its annual swing. Belgrade, Bishkek, Seoul sit closest to it on that ranking.
When is Wellington hottest?+−
February, averaging 70.9°F across the record, with July the coolest at 55.2°F. That is a swing of 15.7°F across the year.
Commentary: Cool enough to regret leaving the extra layer behind.