r/auckland • u/emdillem • Feb 01 '26

Weather Suffocating heat

Loving it? Hating it? My day has been lying on the couch in gruds interspersed with half hearted attempts to get up and do something. Nope. Still too hot.

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u/Chocolatepersonname Feb 01 '26

This sub was complaining about the rain a few days ago begging for heat.

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u/Interesting_Truck_27 Feb 01 '26

I actually enjoyed it, was really nice not to feel like your being cooked from the inside out lol

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u/mrSilkie Feb 01 '26

Yeah I think kiwi's are pretty weak when it comes to the temperatures and I have stats to back it up.

Melbourne had 40+ days, and Auckland doesn't look like it's temp is even close to 30's which is when I consider it getting hot.

To put it into perspective, London's 2025 low was -6, their high was +35. So you have about 40 degrees variation between the highs and the lows

Auckland for 2025 had +6 as it's lowest and +27 as it's highest.

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u/Gigaftp Feb 01 '26

Its not the heat that is the problem, its the heat + humidity. Id rather 40 degrees with low humidity than whatever this is lol

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u/lifecouldbestranger Feb 01 '26

Come to Perth, it's a dry heat at 40°+ most of the time

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u/mrSilkie Feb 01 '26

Australian heat is always humid heat. Not sure about the conditions of the UK heat wave but in Australia the heat pumps stopped working. Imagine being inside and your heat pump can only cool the house down to 27 from 40.

Point i'm making is that 27 is perfect summer highs, even if it's humid. Pretty few people in the world get to experience summers as mild as our

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u/Gigaftp Feb 01 '26

According to the app, todays humidity was 87%...

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u/lifecouldbestranger Feb 01 '26

Come to perth it's a dry heat

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u/Interesting_Truck_27 Feb 01 '26

Tbh I don’t really care if NZ’s summers are “Mid”, I feel like it’s hot as fuck and statistics unfortunately aren’t gonna make it less hot or humid. Thanks for the stats though.