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Queenstown weather by month
Historical averages 2016–2025 · not a forecast
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When is the best time to visit Queenstown?
For a warm holiday, the best week has been 27 February – 5 March (Weather Index 92). Favourable start dates for a 7-day trip run from 23 February to 3 March. January is warmest (29°C), June and July are driest and November and December have the most sun.
- Warmest
- January 29°C
- Coolest
- June and July 19°C
- Driest
- June and July 8% rain-day chance
- Wettest
- February 50% rain-day chance
- Sunniest
- November and December 11 hours a day
A rain day has 1 mm or more, snow included, so a short shower counts. Monthly averages below give the amounts.
Monthly averages in Queenstown
Queenstown historical monthly estimates, 2016–2025. Temperatures and sunshine are daily averages.
| Month | High (°C) | Low (°C) | Rain-day chance (%) | Expected rain days | Precipitation (mm/month) | Sunshine (hours/day) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.8 | 15.0 | 49.4 | 15.3 | 105.5 | 10.5 |
| February | 27.9 | 14.9 | 49.6 | 13.9 | 97.2 | 10.1 |
| March | 27.2 | 13.8 | 39.7 | 12.3 | 77.9 | 9.8 |
| April | 23.6 | 10.2 | 30.3 | 9.1 | 63.3 | 8.9 |
| May | 22.2 | 6.9 | 11.6 | 3.6 | 26.0 | 9.1 |
| June | 19.5 | 4.4 | 8.3 | 2.5 | 16.4 | 9.2 |
| July | 19.2 | 3.5 | 7.7 | 2.4 | 12.6 | 9.4 |
| August | 21.0 | 4.6 | 9.7 | 3.0 | 11.3 | 9.8 |
| September | 23.8 | 7.4 | 20.3 | 6.1 | 34.2 | 9.9 |
| October | 25.4 | 9.5 | 23.9 | 7.4 | 49.0 | 10.4 |
| November | 27.0 | 11.5 | 33.7 | 10.1 | 63.0 | 10.9 |
| December | 28.3 | 13.5 | 46.1 | 14.3 | 92.3 | 11.0 |
Each month averages its own days. Precipitation includes snow. About the data
Sources
Open-Meteo · 1 Jan 2016 – 31 Dec 2025
- Open-Meteo Historical Weather API
- Local days, 2016–2025, every year weighted equally. Each weekly chart averages its own seven days, without smoothing.
- Shading shows the 10th–90th percentile of past days, not forecast confidence.
- A rain day has at least 1 mm, snow included. The last weekly period has eight days.
- Wind is the average daytime (10:00–18:00) maximum, not gusts. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Missing readings stay blank.
- Mugginess (dew point) comes from the original daily summaries, on UTC days.
- The live two-week forecast comes from the Open-Meteo Weather Forecast API. The Weather Index does not use it.