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Sunshine hours for selected cities in North America and Central America Country ... New Zealand Wellington 240.3 205.0 194.7 153.8 126.0 102.3 111.4 137.2
This is partly due to the country's relatively little air pollution compared to many other countries and the high sunshine hours. New Zealand has very high sunshine hours with most areas receiving over 2000 hours per year. The sunniest areas are Nelson/Marlborough and the Bay of Plenty with 2,400 hours per year. [59]
A true-colour image of the South Island, after a powerful winter storm swept across New Zealand on 12 June 2006 Lake Ōhau Aoraki / Mount Cook is the tallest mountain in New Zealand. The South Island , with an area of 150,437 km 2 (58,084 sq mi), [ 1 ] is the largest landmass of New Zealand; it contains about one-quarter of the New Zealand ...
Auckland and Wellington both receive a yearly average of more than 2,000 hours of sunshine. Snow is rare at sea level in North Island. Snow has accumulated in Wellington on rare occasions, including in 2011. [12] [13] Wellington is also the windiest city in the world. [14] Smog can occur on calm winter days in Auckland. [15]
Foxton has an average of about 2,000 sunshine hours a year, and average precipitation of about 900 mm annually. [33] The prevailing winds in the area are west-northwest and have driven the sand back from the coast to create the most extensive transgressive sand dune system in New Zealand. [34]
Sunshine hours approximate the national average for much of the region (1,800-2,000 hours per annum) but Palmerston North is defined as cloudy with an average of 1,725 sunshine hours. In the winter the minimum mid-winter daily average for coastal areas is 4.0 to 7.9 °C (39.2 to 46.2 °F), while inland areas are considerably colder.
Tarras is a small farming settlement in Central Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. Tarras is located on the slopes above the upper reaches of the Clutha Valley , on State Highway 8 . It is the first village reached by travellers heading south through the Lindis Pass , and is close to the junction where travellers from Aoraki / Mount ...
Lake Tekapo (Māori: Takapō) is the second-largest of three roughly parallel lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand (the others are Lake Pukaki and Lake Ōhau). It covers an area of 83 km 2 (32 sq mi) and is at an altitude of 710 m (2,330 ft) above sea level.