Annual

Annual Climate Summaries from 2000 to present.

Read NIWA's annual climate summaries, going back to the year 2000. Each summary contains information on a single year's overall climate conditions, sunshine, temperature, soil moisture, and temperature. 

Issues

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    Annual Climate Summary 2023

    2023: New Zealand’s second warmest year on record
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    Annual Climate Summary 2022

    2022: New Zealand’s warmest year on record, again.
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    Annual Climate Summary 2021

    2021: New Zealand’s warmest year on record
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    Annual Climate Summary 2020

    2020: New Zealand’s 7th-warmest year on record
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    Annual Climate Summary 2019

    2019: New Zealand’s 4th-warmest year on record
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    Annual Climate Summary 2018

    2018: New Zealand’s equal-2nd warmest year on record
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    Annual Climate Summary 2017

    A year of weather extremes across New Zealand
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    Annual Climate Summary 2016

    The year 2016: New Zealand’s warmest on record
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    Annual Climate Summary 2015

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    Annual Climate Summary 2014

    Near normal rainfall and near average temperatures for most of the country.
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    Annual Climate Summary 2013

    Third-warmest year on record for New Zealand.
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    Annual Climate Summary 2012

    Slightly cooler than average for most areas .
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    Annual Climate Summary 2011

    The year 2011 will be remembered as one of extremes.
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    Annual Climate Summary 2010

    2010 Annual Climate Summary
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    2009

    New Zealand’s climate for 2009 was characterised by frequent see-saws in temperature.
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    2008

    sunny and warm, but a rollercoaster year for extremes.
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    2007

    Much drier than average in many places, but disastrous floods in Northland. Drought, destructive tornadoes, windstorms, variable temperatures.
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    2006

    Severe winter snowstorms; floods, wind storms, destructive tornadoes; variable temperatures, yet sunny overall.
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    2005

    Much warmer, with more anticyclones and less wind than normal; very low rainfall in the South Island; catastrophic floods and extremely high rainfall in Bay of Plenty; destructive tornadoes; an unseasonable late snowstorm.
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    2004

    Very stormy at times; devastating floods and extremely high rainfall in several North Island regions; high winds and late winter blizzards; very wet in some areas and cool.
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    2003

    Many extreme events; record low rainfall and cool in parts of Otago; wet in Coromandel; record sunshine in the South Island and in the lower North Island.
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    2002

    Numerous extreme events and El Niño returns; low rainfall in Bay of Plenty; Marlborough and Nelson cool inland; mild in Waikato and the northern South Island; average or above average sunshine.
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    2001

    Extremely low annual rainfall in the eastern South Island and parts of the lower North Island, despite wet end-of-year conditions; severe summer–autumn drought, mid-winter freeze; many other extreme events.
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    2000

    A sunny and slightly warmer than normal year; very wet in Canterbury and Otago; more anticyclones but many extreme events.