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Tauranga in October

sweet spot · the best month to go

The year in Tauranga

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  1. Tauranga in January: good, busy
  2. Tauranga in February: sweet spot, busy
  3. Tauranga in March: ok, busy
  4. Tauranga in April: ok
  5. Tauranga in May: sweet spot
  6. Tauranga in June: ok
  7. Tauranga in July: ok
  8. Tauranga in August: ok
  9. Tauranga in September: sweet spot
  10. Tauranga in October: sweet spot
  11. Tauranga in November: ok, busy
  12. Tauranga in December: ok, busy
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  • Busy
October at Tauranga is 17°C by day and 11°C at night, with 10 rainy days and about 10 hours of sun a day. 17C max, 10 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high17°C
Nightly low11°C
Feels like, afternoon16°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more10 · 130 mm
Humidity80%
Sunshine9.7 h/day
Daylight13.1 h/day
Crowds100 / 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 Mount Maunganui, the beach side, 8 km from the city centre: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

October: quiet. Busiest from November to February; quietest in April, May, June, July, August and October.

Public holidays in October

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Tauranga in pictures

What to pack

  • Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 11°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 10 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 80%; 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 Tauranga: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

October elsewhere

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