Wellington Climate Shift Score
New Zealand · Oceania · Climate Shift score
This page ranks Wellington's own 50 year weather trend against every other live world capital, using the same full-record regression already shown on its Meteo Future Trends page. For where that trend has already gone, see the Climate Capitals trend history, or for current and historical day-to-day weather, see Meteo Capital Cities.See the full ranking of all live world capitals on the interactive map.
Score based on complete years through 2025.
Frequently asked questions about Wellington's Climate Shift Index score
How fast is Wellington's climate changing compared to other capitals?
Wellington ranks 204 of 245 world capitals for how fast its climate is shifting. That places the city in the slowest-changing third, which does not mean nothing is changing here, only that it is moving more slowly than elsewhere. The ranking measures pace of change, not how hot or how pleasant a city is.
What is changing fastest in Wellington?
The fastest-shifting variable in Wellington is wind speed, at +0.5 kt/decade. That is the change per decade, fitted as a linear trend across 1976 to 2025, so over 50 years of measured data rather than two isolated years.
How much is Wellington warming per decade?
Wellington is warming at +0.34°C/decade across 1976 to 2025. Over thirty years that works out at roughly 1.0°C. The trend accounts for 53% of the variation between years; the rest is ordinary year-to-year swing.
Is Wellington getting more extreme heat days?
Days above 30°C are increasing by +0.0 days/decade in Wellington. That is a small figure, which usually means the city either rarely passes 30°C at all or already did so often enough to leave little room to grow.
Is Wellington losing its winter?
Frost days are declining by +0.0 days/decade in Wellington. Frost days are often the fastest-shifting variable in this dataset: cold extremes tend to warm faster than hot ones, which bears directly on anything sized for a cold season.
What does Wellington's Climate Shift Index score actually mean?
The score folds six variables (temperature, tropical days, frost days, precipitation, sunshine hours and wind speed) into one number, converting each into a percentile against every other ranked capital. Wellington scores 31.1. A low score does not mean nothing is changing, only that other capitals are shifting faster, and the score says nothing about how liveable or how warm a city is.
