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Great Barrier Island in December
goodbusy · a good time to go · the sunniest month of the year
The year in Great Barrier Island
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- JanJGreat Barrier Island in January: good, busy
- FebFGreat Barrier Island in February: sweet spot
- MarMGreat Barrier Island in March: sweet spot
- AprAGreat Barrier Island in April: ok
- MayMGreat Barrier Island in May: good
- JunJGreat Barrier Island in June: ok
- JulJGreat Barrier Island in July: ok
- AugAGreat Barrier Island in August: ok
- SepSGreat Barrier Island in September: good
- OctOGreat Barrier Island in October: sweet spot
- NovNGreat Barrier Island in November: ok, busy
- DecDGreat Barrier Island in December: good, busy
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 22°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 17°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 22°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 8 · 82 mm |
| Humidity | 77% |
| Sunshine | 12.1 h/day |
| Daylight | 14.6 h/day |
| Hiking | 23 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C good |
| Crowds | 45 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Tryphena: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in December
- Christmas Day 25 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day 26 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day (observed) 28 Dec 2026
- Christmas Day (observed) 27 Dec 2027
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Great Barrier Island in pictures
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David Baron, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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What to pack
- A packable rain jacket for the 8 or so rainy days.
- Sun protection: about 12 hours of sunshine a day.
- Humidity averages 77%; breathable fabrics dry faster.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type I plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the New zealand dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise normal security precautions. US State Department: Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions. Everything for New Zealand: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Great Barrier Island: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
December elsewhere
In December from
The other months at Great Barrier Island
- January good
- February sweet spot
- March sweet spot
- April ok
- May good
- June ok
- July ok
- August ok
- September good
- October sweet spot
- November ok
- December
← November · All twelve months at Great Barrier Island · January →
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