About this banner
Good Afternoon - Today was: Wednesday, 2 July 2025 17:05:23 NZST
Current: 10.8°C, Max: 14.4°C, Min: 1.3°C. It feels like 9.8°C
FORECAST: Partly cloudy skies this evening will give way to occasional showers overnight. Low around 5C. Winds ESE at 10 to 15 km/h. Chance of rain 40%. It feels like 9.8°C. 3 clothing layers recommended.
Station Forecast: Settled fine | Sunrise: 07:42 | Sunset: 17:02 | Dawn: 07:11 | Dusk: 17:33
Weather Forecast
Temperature : Current trend is Falling, changing by -0.5 °C/hr 10.8°C, 72%   Pressure : Current trend is Steady, changing by -0.0 hPa/hr 1025.6hPa
Based upon today's weather there is a Low Fire Danger (restrictions may apply)
Fire Danger
Wind Speed :  WSW  Current wind speed is Calm (F0) from WSW (247°) 0km/h   Wind Gust : Current trend is Steady 1km/h
Air Quality :  49 AQI  11.9ug/m3   Rainfall : Current trend is Steady 0.0mm
Sun Light : 0Lux, 6.2hrs   Solar UV :  0.0UVI  0W/m2
Last weather station contact: Wednesday, 02 July 2025 at 17:05:17. Updated in seconds

 New Zealand Newsroom
News 🌏 02 Jul 2025 2:51PM: Baby's body found in bin in Auckland (rnz.co.nz) 1/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 1:50PM: Civil Defence warns Nelson-Tasman flood-affected residents to plan for the worst (rnz.co.nz) 2/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 3:44PM: 'Levin invasion': Twelve more arrests over violent King's Birthday boyracer event (rnz.co.nz) 3/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 4:41PM: Invercargill Mayor Nobby Clark has minor stroke (rnz.co.nz) 4/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 2:54PM: Helen Gregory murder trial: Forensic evidence cannot confirm vase as murder weapon (rnz.co.nz) 5/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 12:43PM: New Cook Strait ferry due in Wellington (rnz.co.nz) 6/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 4:38PM: Cost blowout renews call to scrap council's Akaroa wastewater plans (rnz.co.nz) 7/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 2:43PM: Lachlan Jones probe: New team to reinvestigate toddler's death revealed (rnz.co.nz) 8/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 3:58PM: Thieves steal railway bells, copper from rail bridge (rnz.co.nz) 9/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 3:51PM: NIWA says weather agencies' merger set to fix gaps exposed by Cyclone Gabrielle (rnz.co.nz) 10/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 3:07PM: Prescription confusion may have contributed to woman's death - coroner (rnz.co.nz) 11/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 12:33PM: Flood-hit Nelson-Tasman braces for next big storm (rnz.co.nz) 12/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 2:49PM: 'Pretty scary scene': Ponsonby residents shocked by homicide investigation (rnz.co.nz) 13/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 2:27PM: Racer who struck pregnant woman, killing baby, sent to jail (rnz.co.nz) 14/15 🌏 02 Jul 2025 10:38AM: Police officer caught going 150 kilometres per hour with no sirens or lights on (rnz.co.nz) 15/15

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 2016
                   Annual Climatological Summary for 2016

Name: City Centre   City: Palmerston North   State: Manawatu
Elevation: 25 m  Lat: S 40 20 57   Lon: E 175 36 55

                  Temperature (°C), Heat Base: 18.3  Cool Base: 18.3
                          Dep.  Heat  Cool                       Max  Max  Min  Min
        Mean  Mean        From  Deg   Deg                        >=   <=   <=   <=
 YR MO  Max   Min   Mean  Norm  Days  Days  Hi  Date  Low  Date 27.0  0.0  0.0 -18.0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 16  1  25.6  15.6  20.0   2.1    21    75  32.1  17   9.7    5    8    0    0    0
 16  2  28.2  17.7  22.0   3.8     5   107  32.9   3  10.7   26   20    0    0    0
 16  3  24.5  14.0  18.4   1.8    51    53  33.7   7   8.6   13   10    0    0    0
 16  4  20.8  10.7  15.3   1.2   102    12  24.3   1   5.0   14    0    0    0    0
 16  5  17.9  10.7  13.9   2.5   126     3  22.3   4   4.9   23    0    0    0    0
 16  6  14.8   6.8   9.7   0.4   252     0  18.1  22   1.4    8    0    0    0    0
 16  7  14.2   5.6   9.7   1.1   266     0  19.6  23   1.0    1    0    0    0    0
 16  8  14.4   5.8   9.7   0.3   267     0  17.9  30  -1.0    8    0    0    1    0
 16  9  16.4   9.1  12.2   1.1   183     0  21.3  30   2.8    1    0    0    0    0
 16 10  19.1   9.6  13.7   1.0   146     3  22.6  24   4.3   30    0    0    0    0
 16 11  19.7  11.6  15.0   0.6   103     5  23.0  15   5.9    1    0    0    0    0
 16 12  22.7  12.5  17.1   0.7    72    66  28.5   9   6.8   13    2    0    0    0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        19.9  10.8  14.7   1.4  1594   324  33.7 Mar  -1.0  Aug   40    0    1    0

                                Precipitation (mm)

              Dep.   Max        Days of Rain
              From   Obs.           >=
 YR MO Total  Norm   Day Date  0.2  2.0 20.0
---------------------------------------------
 16  1  59.1  -5.9  18.0  19    10    7    0
 16  2  29.3 -32.7   9.3  18     7    5    0
 16  3  63.9 -10.1  36.0  17     9    5    1
 16  4  36.6 -39.4  12.9   2     7    4    0
 16  5 194.1 145.1  53.4   5    21   16    1
 16  6  61.2 -25.8  14.1  12    15    6    0
 16  7  88.8  -5.2  17.4  14    17   10    0
 16  8  89.9   7.9  27.0  27    12    7    2
 16  9  70.7 -12.3  13.2  18    14   10    0
 16 10  88.6  -1.4  21.6   9    19   13    1
 16 11 128.8  50.8  45.3   7    19   13    1
 16 12  59.2 -33.8  28.8  15    12    7    1
---------------------------------------------
       970.2  37.2  53.4  May  162  103    7

                                Wind Speed (km/h)
                          Dom
 YR MO   Avg.  Hi   Date  Dir
------------------------------
 16  1   6.1  61.3   15   WSW
 16  2   3.8  60.6   19     S
 16  3   4.1  55.5   10   ENE
 16  4   4.1  88.7    3    NW
 16  5   5.4  67.8    2     W
 16  6   3.5  54.8   11    NW
 16  7   6.6  94.4   24     W
 16  8   6.4  85.3    6   ESE
 16  9   6.9  72.8    5     W
 16 10   5.6  85.1    8     W
 16 11   7.4 116.1   27     W
 16 12   6.5  96.6   15     W
------------------------------
         5.5 116.1  Nov     W