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When to go to Invercargill
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What the averages say
No month in Invercargill averages a high of 18°C or more; the warmest, January, averages 17°C.
- Cold months (a mean high under 10°C): July.
- The warmest month is January (17°C) and the coolest July (9°C). The wettest is January (116 mm) and the driest August (88 mm); about 1,256 mm of rain falls in a year.
How these sentences are worded
Each sentence is written from the figures by fixed rules, and says no more than they do. Mild to warm: a mean daily high from 18°C up to 32°C. Hot: 32°C or more. Cool: 10°C up to 18°C. Cold: under 10°C. Dry: under 50 mm of rain in the month; wet: 150 mm or more. Humid: a high of 25°C or more with relative humidity of 70% or more. A month is described as good for going when it is mild to warm and not wet.
The year at a glance
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
- JanCool
- FebCool
- MarCool
- AprCool
- MayCool
- JunCool
- JulCold
- AugCool
- SeptCool
- OctCool
- NovCool
- DecCool
Month by month
Every month in Invercargill
| Month | High | Low | Rain | Humidity | Cloud | Sunlight (kWh/m²/day) | High in Dubai | What it is like |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17°C | 11°C | 116 mm | 78% | 75% | 5.8 | 23°C | Cool |
| February | 17°C | 11°C | 97 mm | 79% | 73% | 5 | 24°C | Cool |
| March | 16°C | 11°C | 102 mm | 80% | 71% | 3.6 | 27°C | Cool |
| April | 14°C | 10°C | 102 mm | 82% | 73% | 2.3 | 31°C | Cool |
| May | 12°C | 8°C | 116 mm | 85% | 72% | 1.4 | 35°C | Cool |
| June | 10°C | 7°C | 101 mm | 85% | 70% | 1 | 37°C | Cool |
| July | 9°C | 6°C | 97 mm | 85% | 68% | 1.2 | 39°C | Cold |
| August | 10°C | 6°C | 88 mm | 84% | 69% | 2 | 39°C | Cool |
| September | 12°C | 7°C | 103 mm | 81% | 71% | 3.2 | 37°C | Cool |
| October | 13°C | 8°C | 116 mm | 79% | 74% | 4.5 | 34°C | Cool |
| November | 14°C | 9°C | 113 mm | 78% | 77% | 5.5 | 29°C | Cool |
| December | 16°C | 10°C | 105 mm | 78% | 75% | 6.1 | 25°C | Cool |
The Dubai column is Dubai's mean daily high, for comparison.
Modelled averages for an area about 50 km across, not a weather station's record: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
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