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When to go to Queenstown
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What the averages say
No month in Queenstown averages a high of 18°C or more; the warmest, January, averages 16°C.
- Cold months (a mean high under 10°C): May to October.
- The warmest month is January (16°C) and the coolest July (3°C). The wettest is January (121 mm) and the driest August (89 mm); about 1,279 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
- MayCold
- JunCold
- JulCold
- AugCold
- SeptCold
- OctCold
- NovCool
- DecCool
Month by month
Every month in Queenstown
| Month | High | Low | Rain | Humidity | Cloud | Sunlight (kWh/m²/day) | High in Dubai | What it is like |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16°C | 6°C | 121 mm | 78% | 70% | 6.2 | 23°C | Cool |
| February | 16°C | 6°C | 100 mm | 79% | 66% | 5.4 | 24°C | Cool |
| March | 14°C | 4°C | 95 mm | 82% | 65% | 4.1 | 27°C | Cool |
| April | 10°C | 2°C | 98 mm | 87% | 65% | 2.7 | 31°C | Cool |
| May | 6°C | 0°C | 121 mm | 92% | 66% | 1.6 | 35°C | Cold |
| June | 3°C | -2°C | 103 mm | 94% | 64% | 1.2 | 37°C | Cold |
| July | 3°C | -3°C | 96 mm | 93% | 63% | 1.4 | 39°C | Cold |
| August | 5°C | -2°C | 89 mm | 91% | 66% | 2.2 | 39°C | Cold |
| September | 7°C | -1°C | 110 mm | 87% | 68% | 3.4 | 37°C | Cold |
| October | 9°C | 0°C | 117 mm | 84% | 70% | 4.8 | 34°C | Cold |
| November | 12°C | 2°C | 109 mm | 81% | 72% | 5.8 | 29°C | Cool |
| December | 15°C | 5°C | 120 mm | 79% | 73% | 6.3 | 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.
The model's grid cell sits about 635 m higher than the town, so real temperatures there run a little warmer than these.
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