Weather Forecast for Rotorua289m above sea level
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Next 24 Hours in Rotorua
Next 9 Days in Rotorua
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12km/h
chance
of rain
1.7mm
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25km/h
chance
of rain
18.3mm
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15km/h
chance
of rain
9.9mm
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18km/h
chance
of rain
9.2mm
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13km/h
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of rain
2.7mm
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Night
12km/h
chance
of rain
2.2mm
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12km/h
chance
of rain
3.1mm
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10km/h
chance
of rain
8.3mm
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11km/h
chance
of rain
11.9mm
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Grant on 25/12/2025 11:24pm
As a keen observer of weather in the North Island I and some of my friends and colleagues find weather forecasts over the past 3 to 4 months have been woeful !
I’m in my early 70s and have had an ongoing interest in weather in the North Island from Taupo north, the forecasting of late (last 6 months) have been woeful specifically in the greater Auckland Region
With all the weather specialists & all the techo goodies you have you’d like to think you could get some reliability and semblance of accuracy in forecasting !
When Wiroa Island had a weather station at Auckland Airport forecasts for Auckland were inherently reliable, these days it’s look out the window and guess, seems to be the basis of weather FORCASTING in the 21st Century!
Rgds, Grant Maconaghie
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WW Forecast Team on 26/12/2025 12:48am
Hi there, New Zealand has no open weather data – that’s why forecasts aren’t as accurate as we all wish they were. That simply means that no historical or current weather data is openly available for use, unlike Australia, USA, Canada, UK, Japan etc. I suggest you write to you local MP. Our forecasts in other nations are more accurate because we capture real time data including radar.
Have a nice day, thank you for using our free service when you tax fund both MetService and Niwa weather.
Regards
– WW
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Mary Jarvie on 25/12/2025 8:15am
Why are results from Westport Cananda showing up on this page ?! ie IWESTP58
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WW Forecast Team on 25/12/2025 9:44am
Hi Mary, where are you seeing it say Canada? IWESTP58 does appear to be incorrect, but it’s showing 21 degrees, not -3 (which it is there). We’ll take a look and remove that station in the next day or so.
– WW
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jet on 24/12/2025 11:06pm
Merry Christmas Phill and WW thanks for forecasting sunny weather in nelson you guys are epic
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Rob Curtis on 24/12/2025 7:52am
I have a theory. It will or will not rain.
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Jet on 23/12/2025 2:43am
Hi Phill When are you gonna do a cilmate outlook for January?
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WW Forecast Team on 23/12/2025 10:57pm
Hi Jet, we’ll have a long range outlook on New Year’s Eve, but not the usual ClimateWatch update, that returns on January 31st.
Cheers
– WW
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