Ideal weather days in Christchurch
The best time to visit Christchurch for warm, dry weather is December to March, with 15 to 18 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Christchurch's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in December to March.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Christchurch, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold185
- Too wet78
- Too windy54
- Too hot1
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Christchurch averaged 125 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in New Zealand, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in December (up to 10 a month, 27 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April (up to 10 a month, 54 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 185 a year, mostly in May to August. Another 78 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in February to April and June to July. A day can fail more than one test.
Christchurch weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22 °C 72 °F | 6 | 8 | 17 of 31 |
| February | 22 °C 72 °F | 7 | 6 | 18 of 28 |
| March | 20 °C 67 °F | 9 | 3 | 18 of 31 |
| April | 18 °C 64 °F | 7 | 4 | 11 of 30 |
| May | 15 °C 58 °F | 6 | 0 | 6 of 31 |
| June | 12 °C 54 °F | 10 | 3 | 1 of 30 |
| July | 12 °C 53 °F | 8 | 3 | 1 of 31 |
| August | 12 °C 54 °F | 7 | 3 | 3 of 31 |
| September | 18 °C 64 °F | 8 | 5 | 11 of 30 |
| October | 18 °C 64 °F | 6 | 5 | 11 of 31 |
| November | 19 °C 65 °F | 7 | 7 | 12 of 30 |
| December | 22 °C 72 °F | 8 | 8 | 15 of 31 |
| Year | 87 | 54 | 125 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h. Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month. This station doesn't report cloud cover reliably, so clear days aren’t counted here.
Year by year
- 2023 116 warm, dry days
- 2024 131 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Christchurch for good weather?
The best time to visit Christchurch for warm, dry weather is December to March, with 15 to 18 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in December (up to 10 a month, 27 a year). Counted from measured days at Christchurch Aero Aws station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Christchurch?
On average 87 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was June (10 rain days), the driest January (6).
How warm does Christchurch get?
The median daily high ranged from 12 °C (53 °F) in July to 22 °C (72 °F) in January.
Nearby
- Queenstown360 km101 days
- Auckland760 km131 days
- Hobart2050 km, Australia120 days
- Sydney2150 km, Australia206 days
- Suva2880 km, Fiji182 days
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Source: Christchurch Aero Aws weather station (93781099999), 11 km from the centre of Christchurch, 37 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.