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Arthur's Pass in January

Mild and wet, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

January in Arthur's Pass is mild: highs near 68°F, lows near 48°F. Rain falls on about four days a week, and the days shorten by 33 minutes from the first week to the last.January in Arthur's Pass is mild: highs near 20°C, lows near 9°C. Rain falls on about four days a week, and the days shorten by 33 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
68°F20°Caverage
Low
48°F9°Caverage
Wet days
4a week · 50% of days
Daylight
14h 58mon average

Is January a good time to visit Arthur's Pass?

A good month, just outside Arthur's Pass's best months, which run from February.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How January sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 68°F in January, against 43°F to 69°F through the year.Highs near 20°C in January, against 6°C to 21°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

50% of days in January, against 42% to 61% through the year.

Cloud cover

58% cover in January, against 55% to 67% through the year.

Daylight

14h 58m in January, against 9h 03m to 15h 19m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with January shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. December65°18°low 46°low 8°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  2. January68°20°low 48°low 9°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  3. February69°21°low 49°low 9°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Arthur's Pass sits, in January

Pacific/Auckland
this place
typical high in January 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-January
6:11 AMsets 9:12 PM
Above the sea
650 mupland
Latitude
43.1°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Omarama219 km south-west

The land around Arthur's Pass, shaded by its typical high in January, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in New Zealand in January

high · low · wet days
See January on the planning mapThe whole year in Arthur's Pass

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Arthur's Pass. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (650 m) against the climate model's (917 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (650 m) against the climate model's (917 m). Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.