Average June Rainfall for New Zealand

The tables below list monthly averages for rainfall during June at cities, towns, beaches and islands throughout New Zealand.

Each place has a total for how many days of wet weather it usually gets a year and for the normal amount of precipitation. The calculation of days only includes the days when rain totalled at least one millimetre (0.04 inches).

The month's precipitation statistics are long-term historical averages of weather data collected during 1991 to 2020.

North Island

Average monthly precipitation in June
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
14 Auckland 4.7 119
13 Cape Reinga 3.9 99
10 Gisborne 3.8 97
13 Great Barrier Island 6.5 166
13 Hamilton 4.6 118
15 Kaikohe 6.9 175
15 Kaitaia 5.9 150
14 Kerikeri 7.8 198
12 Masterton 3.6 91
8 Napier 3.1 79
15 New Plymouth 5.7 144
12 Palmerston North 3.8 96
11 Rotorua 5.2 132
11 Taupo 3.7 93
11 Tauranga 4.7 121
13 Thames 5.1 129
14 Waiheke Island 5.5 139
13 Wellington 4.9 124
17 Whakapapa Village, Tongariro 10.7 272
13 Whangaparaoa 4.3 108
14 Whangarei 5.6 142
14 Whitianga 7.3 185
12 Whanganui 3.7 95

South Island

June averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
12 Akaroa 4.4 111
15 Arthur's Pass 14.9 378
8 Blenheim 2.7 69
9 Christchurch 2.8 71
9 Dunedin 2.3 59
11 Farewell Spit 5.8 146
14 Franz Josef 17.9 456
15 Greymouth 9.2 233
14 Invercargill 3.4 85
8 Kaikoura  2.9 73
12 Lake Rotoiti 6.3 159
8 Lake Tekapo 2.1 52
12 Manapouri 3.6 91
15 Milford Sound 17.3 440
14 Mt Cook 11.5 291
9 Nelson 3.9 100
9 Queenstown 2.9 75
19 Secretary Island 11.7 297
5 Timaru 1.6 39
16 Westport 7.9 200

Other Islands

Rainfall averages for June
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
17 Auckland Islands 3.3 84
22 Campbell Island 4.5 114
16 Chatham Island 3.7 94
13 Raoul Island  5.4 138
18 Stewart Island, Oban 5.5 140
Reference

NIWA (New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research). The National Climate Database.

New Zealand Rainfall
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