Good Evening - Today was: Sunday, 8 November 2026 20:51:52 NZDT
🛍️Palmy Weather Affiliated Shop - Now Open!🛒
Shop our range of branded merchandise, hand picked weather stations and gadgets
Current: 16.8°C, Max: 20.4°C, Min: 14.5°C. It feels like 17.0°C
FORECAST: Mostly cloudy skies. Low 12C. Winds light and variable. It feels like 17.0°C. 2 clothing layers recommended.
Temperature : Current trend is Falling, changing by -0.5 °C/hr 16.8°C, 85%   Pressure : Current trend is Rising, changing by 0.7 hPa/hr 1018.7hPa
Based upon today's weather there is a Low Fire Danger (restrictions may apply)
Fire Danger
Wind Speed : Current wind speed is Light breeze (F2) from W (280°)   W  6km/h   Wind Gust : Current trend is Steady 11km/h
Air Quality :  5 AQI  1.5ug/m3   Rainfall : Current trend is Steady 1.6mm
Sun Light : 0lx, 4.8hrs   Solar UV :  0.0UVI  0W/m2
Last weather station contact: Sunday, 08 November 2026 at 20:52:44. Updated in seconds

 The Palmy Sun: Palmy Weather Newsroom
  News  

⛅ 08 Nov 2026 7:51PM: LIVE: Rugby League World Cup: Fiji Bulikula v Australian Jillaroos (rnz.co.nz) 1/10 ⛅ 08 Nov 2026 7:09PM: Live: Australia Jillaroos v Fiji Bulikula - Rugby League World Cup semi-final (rnz.co.nz) 2/10 ⛅ 08 Nov 2026 6:43PM: Person critically injured after serious crash in Lower Hutt (rnz.co.nz) 3/10 ⛅ 08 Nov 2026 6:17PM: Tenancy Tribunal orders brother landlord to pay sibling tenant nearly $17,000 (rnz.co.nz) 4/10 ⛅ 08 Nov 2026 5:55PM: Starshield or nothing: NZDF moves closer to buying into Musk's satellite network for secrets (rnz.co.nz) 5/10 ⛅ 08 Nov 2026 4:42PM: Historic Asian firsts amid election disappointment (rnz.co.nz) 6/10 ⛅ 08 Nov 2026 4:20PM: Man arrested after nine burglaries in one week in Whiritoa, north of Waihi (rnz.co.nz) 7/10 ⛅ 08 Nov 2026 4:20PM: Historic Asian firsts amid election disappointment (rnz.co.nz) 8/10 ⛅ 08 Nov 2026 4:18PM: Thunderstorms forecast for parts of Canterbury region (rnz.co.nz) 9/10 ⛅ 08 Nov 2026 3:55PM: The future of the Māori seats includes the Greens (rnz.co.nz) 10/10


NOAA Climate Reports - Daily, Month and Year History Report and Extremes
The NOAA Climate Report provides a day-by-day, monthly and yearly look at the weather since 2009 in Palmerston North. This offers detailed records for the rain, wind and temperatures as well as totals and summaries all recored at the Palmerston North location.

Report for 2023 Jan
                   Monthly Climatological Summary for Jan 2023

Name: City Centre   City: Palmerston North   State: Manawatu
Elevation: 36 m  Lat: S 40° 21' 32"   Lon: E 175° 34' 22"

                  Temperature (°C), Rain (mm), Wind Speed (km/h)

                                      Heat  Cool        Avg
    Mean                              Deg   Deg         Wind                 Dom
Day Temp  High   Time   Low    Time   Days  Days  Rain  Speed High   Time    Dir
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
01  17.4  20.1   18:35  14.5   04:59   1.2   0.3   0.0   4.9  38.0   18:52   ENE
02  18.4  21.7   16:08  16.0   01:56   0.7   0.8   0.0   7.4  61.0   12:42    NE
03  19.9  23.7   15:21  17.1   06:03   0.3   2.0   0.0   9.0  60.0   20:13   NNE
04  20.0  22.5   13:57  18.0   06:29   0.0   1.7   0.0  11.7  74.0   11:37    NE
05  19.7  22.3   16:55  17.9   05:52   0.0   1.5   3.4   6.8  38.0   02:28    NE
06  20.6  23.6   13:51  18.6   05:37   0.0   2.3   3.2   3.1  27.0   02:43   ESE
07  19.7  21.2   10:48  17.7   22:49   0.0   1.4   4.2   3.2  37.0   07:40     E
08  18.5  21.5   17:57  16.5   23:46   0.5   0.7   2.6   6.2  48.0   11:46     E
09  18.1  20.7   15:31  15.9   04:37   0.8   0.5   0.0   6.3  43.0   17:58   ENE
10  18.6  20.2   14:25  17.5   05:12   0.3   0.5   1.0   7.5  51.0   12:56    NE
11  19.9  25.3   15:47  16.9   02:05   0.4   2.0   4.2   8.9  54.0   17:55     E
12  19.0  23.6   16:14  15.9   23:26   0.5   1.1   0.0   7.7  53.0   03:23   ESE
13  18.9  23.2   15:39  15.3   06:49   0.7   1.2   0.0   3.8  34.0   09:04   ENE
14  19.2  25.1   16:28  15.9   06:22   0.7   1.6   0.0   4.0  27.0   10:39   ENE
15  19.3  23.3   18:00  16.3   04:51   0.5   1.5   0.0   5.5  45.0   16:44    NE
16  20.8  25.2   17:23  17.5   07:08   0.1   2.7   0.0   3.6  40.0   14:58     W
17  21.6  26.6   16:38  17.9   06:23   0.0   3.3   0.0   2.9  28.0   14:52   WSW
18  20.5  23.6   16:47  18.2   07:22   0.0   2.2   0.0   5.9  41.0   11:02   ENE
19  21.0  26.2   16:33  18.5   06:48   0.0   2.7   0.0   3.5  33.0   15:03     E
20  21.2  25.1   15:55  19.4   01:05   0.0   3.0   0.0   6.8  48.0   15:19   WNW
21  21.0  25.2   16:10  19.0   23:42   0.0   2.7   0.6   5.7  39.0   15:28     E
22  20.6  24.5   16:14  18.4   03:38   0.0   2.3   0.0   6.5  58.0   17:05     W
23  20.0  23.8   15:48  17.5   08:16   0.0   1.7   0.0   3.9  28.0   08:24     E
24  20.1  26.3   16:12  17.1   01:55   0.3   2.1   0.0   5.6  40.0   11:19   ENE
25  20.7  24.4   16:28  17.6   06:00   0.1   2.4   0.0   5.6  41.0   09:22    NE
26  22.1  27.6   16:27  19.3   03:48   0.0   3.8   0.0   3.3  28.0   18:19   WSW
27  20.7  23.6   13:38  19.5   06:39   0.0   2.4  14.0   1.8  25.0   13:48   ENE
29  20.6  26.1   15:17  18.3   05:16   0.0   4.7  19.8   5.4  40.0   08:41   ENE
30  22.6  25.8   16:09  20.1   07:23   0.0   4.3   8.2   3.1  24.0   16:16    SW
31  21.6  23.7   16:05  20.2   06:25   0.0   3.3   0.0   6.0  55.0   13:26    NE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    20.1  27.6    26    14.5     1     7.1  62.7  61.2   5.5  74.0     4     ENE

Max >=  27.0  1
Max <=   0.0  0
Min <=   0.0  0
Min <= -18.0  0
Max Rain: 19.8 on day 29
Days of Rain: 10 (>= 0.2 mm)  8 (>= 2.0 mm)  0 (>= 20.0 mm)
Heat Base: 18.3  Cool Base: 18.3  Method: Integration