Ideal weather days in Queenstown
The best time to visit Queenstown for warm, dry weather is January and February, with about 21 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Queenstown's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in January and February.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Queenstown, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold223
- Too wet93
- Too windy25
- Too hot0
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), Queenstown averaged 101 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 January (up to 7 a month, 13 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in March and April (up to 11 a month, 56 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 223 a year, mostly in April to October. Another 93 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in September to December. A day can fail more than one test.
Queenstown weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24 °C 74 °F | 6 | 5 | 21 of 31 |
| February | 23 °C 73 °F | 5 | 1 | 21 of 28 |
| March | 20 °C 67 °F | 8 | 3 | 14 of 31 |
| April | 17 °C 62 °F | 8 | 2 | 7 of 30 |
| May | 13 °C 55 °F | 9 | 1 | 2 of 31 |
| June | 9 °C 47 °F | 7 | 0 | 0 of 30 |
| July | 9 °C 48 °F | 5 | 1 | 0 of 31 |
| August | 10 °C 50 °F | 8 | 1 | 0 of 31 |
| September | 14 °C 56 °F | 15 | 1 | 2 of 30 |
| October | 16 °C 61 °F | 11 | 3 | 7 of 31 |
| November | 19 °C 65 °F | 10 | 4 | 11 of 30 |
| December | 21 °C 70 °F | 11 | 4 | 15 of 31 |
| Year | 101 | 25 | 101 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 103 warm, dry days
- 2024 92 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Queenstown for good weather?
The best time to visit Queenstown for warm, dry weather is January and February, with about 21 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in January (up to 7 a month, 13 a year). Counted from measured days at Queenstown Aerodrome station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Queenstown?
On average 101 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was September (15 rain days), the driest February (5).
How warm does Queenstown get?
The median daily high ranged from 9 °C (47 °F) in June to 24 °C (74 °F) in January.
Nearby
- Christchurch360 km125 days
- Auckland1040 km131 days
- Hobart1720 km, Australia120 days
- Sydney1950 km, Australia206 days
- Suva3130 km, Fiji182 days
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Source: Queenstown Aerodrome weather station (93831099999), 6 km from the centre of Queenstown, 358 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.