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Great Barrier Island in February

sweet spot · the best month to go · the warmest month of the year, the driest month of the year

The year in Great Barrier Island

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  1. Great Barrier Island in January: good, busy
  2. Great Barrier Island in February: sweet spot
  3. Great Barrier Island in March: sweet spot
  4. Great Barrier Island in April: ok
  5. Great Barrier Island in May: good
  6. Great Barrier Island in June: ok
  7. Great Barrier Island in July: ok
  8. Great Barrier Island in August: ok
  9. Great Barrier Island in September: good
  10. Great Barrier Island in October: sweet spot
  11. Great Barrier Island in November: ok, busy
  12. Great Barrier Island in December: good, busy
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
February at Great Barrier Island is 23°C by day and 19°C at night, with 6 rainy days and about 11 hours of sun a day. 23C max, 6 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high23°C
Nightly low19°C
Feels like, afternoon24°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more6 · 102 mm
Humidity77%
Sunshine11.1 h/day
Daylight13.4 h/day
Hiking22 of 28 days dry and 10–27 °C good
Crowds81 / 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

February: busier than usual. Busiest from November to January; quietest in April, May, September and October.

Public holidays in February

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Great Barrier Island in pictures

What to pack

  • Sun protection: about 11 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. 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.

February elsewhere

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