Seasonal climate hub

Welcome to the seasonal climate hub of the Greater Wellington Regional Council. On this page you will find our seasonal climate and water summaries, containing the latest information available on the climate drivers that can influence our region.

Greater Wellington measures rainfall, river flows, groundwater levels, temperature, and soil moisture at many locations around the Wellington Region. To provide a summary of climate and water resources for each season we analyse the latest information from a combination of council, NIWA and MetService monitoring sites.

Daily climate maps

Check the current rainfall and soil moisture anomalies (updated daily).

Drought check

Read and interact with the latest information on the seasonal climate tendency (updated every time there is a new seasonal outlook).

Current seasonal summary

The current seasonal summary is for Summer 2022 (updated every season).

Previous summaries

Compare the climatic patterns over the last decade.

2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021

Wellington Region climate drivers

Learn about the impacts of climate drivers such as El Niño, Indian Ocean Dipole and Southern Annular Mode on our seasonal climate.

Speak to the climate scientist

Send a message to our climate scientist if you have comments or enquiries about the content in our seasonal hub.

Climate change

For climate change information, please refer to our climate change page.