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Te Awanga in May

Mild and damp, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Te Awanga is mild: highs near 62°F, lows near 49°F. Rain falls on about two days a week, and the days shorten by 49 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Te Awanga is mild: highs near 17°C, lows near 9°C. Rain falls on about two days a week, and the days shorten by 49 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
62°F17°Caverage
Low
49°F9°Caverage
Wet days
2a week · 32% of days
Daylight
9h 58mon average

Is May a good time to visit Te Awanga?

May sits outside Te Awanga's best months, which run from December to March. Expect mild days and rain on about two days a week.

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 May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 62°F in May, against 56°F to 73°F through the year.Highs near 17°C in May, against 13°C to 23°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

32% of days in May, against 27% to 42% through the year.

Cloud cover

46% cover in May, against 43% to 51% through the year.

Daylight

9h 58m in May, against 9h 25m to 14h 56m through the year.

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

Either side

  1. April66°19°low 53°low 12°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  2. May62°17°low 49°low 9°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  3. June57°14°low 46°low 8°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Te Awanga sits, in May

Pacific/Auckland
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
7:08 AMsets 5:08 PM
Above the sea
230 mlow-lying
Latitude
39.6°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Taupō131 km north-west

The land around Te Awanga, shaded by its typical high in May, 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 May

high · low · wet days
See May on the planning mapThe whole year in Te Awanga

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), read 7 km south of Te Awanga. Its own grid square is mostly sea and holds only a daily average, so the page reads the nearest square with a true high and low near the town's height. 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 (230 m) against the climate model's (90 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 (230 m) against the climate model's (90 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.