Today
Has it rained enough in Dunedin?
Rain soaked in yesterday, and the ground is still holding it.
Dunedin has had 81.6mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 84mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
6 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Dunedin through a normal year
Across a normal year Dunedin gets about 795.4mm of rain, most of it in December (96.1mm) and least in August (41.4mm).
A normal October in Dunedin has rain on 19 days. Only 12 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Dunedin one of the drier places this site covers in New Zealand in October — 6th of 8, against Nelson at the wet end (138.7mm) and Christchurch at the dry end (58.8mm).
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.