NIWA produces a range of climate-related data. You can see some of it below, as well as related activities.
Climate data
Overview of New Zealand climate (Climate overview, rainfall and temperature graphs and for selected locations throughout New Zealand)
Climate summaries (Annual rain, temperature, sunshine, frost and wind data for selected locations throughout New Zealand)
Mean relative humidity
For selected locations throughout New Zealand, by month
Mean number of days of ground frost
For selected locations throughout New Zealand, by month
Mean monthly sunshine (hours)
For selected locations throughout New Zealand, by month
Mean 10cm earth temperature (°C)
For selected locations throughout New Zealand, by month
Mean daily maximum temperatures (°C)
For selected locations throughout New Zealand, by month
Mean monthly temperatures (°C)
For selected locations throughout New Zealand, by month
Mean daily minimum temperature (°C)
For selected locations throughout New Zealand, by month
Mean monthly rainfall (mm)
For selected locations throughout New Zealand
Mean monthly wet-days
For selected locations throughout New Zealand, by month
Mean daily global radiation (Mj/sq m)
For selected locations throughout New Zealand, by month
Worksheets
Graphing with Microsoft Excel (Drawing bar graphs – all levels)
Escape the winter blues all year round (Interpreting, processing and communicating information – MINZC: S3.2, S3.4)
Meteorologist for a day (Calculating means – MINZC: S4.7, S5.3)
How cold is the Antarctic? (Graphing data, communication – MINZC: N4.1, S4.3, S4.5, A5.3)
What is the chance of a warm summer in Invercargill? (Simulation, interpreting graphs – MINZC: S5.6, S5.7, S5.9, S5.10, S6.8; NCEA: 90194 [1.6])
Using trigonometric functions to model climate (Transformation of trigonometric functions – MINZC: M7.1, A8.15; NCEA: 90637 [C3.3])
What's up with the weather? (Reading graphs – MINZC: S4.5, A4.3, A5.3)
Winter in Queenstown (Negative numbers, reading a graph – MINZC: N4.1, A4.3, S5.7)
Weather plots: temperature and relative humidity (Describing trends and relationships - MINZC: A5.3, S5.7, S6.6)
Climate Stuff for Students
Climate and weather FAQs, and links to other websites
Ideas for projects using climate data
Reuse
The downloadable material and worksheets available on this webpage are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Related links
- Climate extremes (highest and lowest rainfall, temperature, sunshine and wind)
- Station details (station name, latitude, longitude, height, years of data)
- Australian monthly climate data (maps, graphs and tables of averages for selected locations provided by Bureau of Meteorology website)
- Worldwide monthly rainfall and temperature data (the WorldClimate website compiles climate data from many sources)
