Today
Has it rained enough in Tauranga?
Rain soaked properly in 4 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Tauranga has had 30.7mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 104.7mm — and the driest October in the last 30 years still managed 37.1mm. This is drier than anything on that record.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Tauranga through a normal year
Across a normal year Tauranga gets about 1438.9mm of rain, most of it in June (148.9mm) and least in November (101.7mm).
A normal October in Tauranga has rain on 16 days. Only 11 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Tauranga one of the wetter places this site covers in New Zealand in October — 3rd 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 basketsWorst hit, and first to suffer. Very little soil, fully exposed, and nothing to fall back on — in this weather they can empty in a day.
- Salad and leafy vegShallow-rooted and quick to bolt once they run dry. First priority of anything in the ground.
- Beds and bordersA long soak that reaches the roots is worth more than a daily sprinkle, which only wets the surface and is gone by lunchtime.
- Established shrubs and treesFine as they are. They draw from far deeper than a dry spell reaches.