New member from California planning to move to NZ! (Disco)

[Disco]

Yeah something like those country homes is EXACTLY what I'm looking for. Clean fresh air and water, open countryside, a friendly community, growing my own food...and quiet. Ahhhh....

[Disco]

Ok guys, I was thinking of visiting in June with the family, but the cold weather and snow is making us reconsider. We want to visit the warm, green, lush place we see in pictures. Is the weather in June pretty cold? Should we just wait and visit in the Spring or Summer?

[oneblackflag]

Ok guys, I was thinking of visiting in June with the family, but the cold weather and snow is making us reconsider. We want to visit the warm, green, lush place we see in pictures. Is the weather in June pretty cold? Should we just wait and visit in the Spring or Summer?

Late spring I would think would be best to see lush grass, leaves on trees, snow on mountain tops. Decent weather.

[Ocean1]

Ok guys, I was thinking of visiting in June with the family, but the cold weather and snow is making us reconsider. We want to visit the warm, green, lush place we see in pictures. Is the weather in June pretty cold? Should we just wait and visit in the Spring or Summer?

Most of NZ is pretty green and lush most of the year. But it's a long skinny place spread over a fair bit of longitude, so while the weather isn't as varied as the US it does make quite a difference where you are.

The middle of the south island is where a lot of tourist brochure pics are taken, and that's quite hot through summer but bloody chilly through winter. You won't normally see snow anywhere in the country outside of ski resorts even mid-winter, but we're not protected from weather extremes by a large continental mass, which means weather, not climate is what dictates conditions. You shouldn't expect day to day conditions to be as predictably balmy as SD, for example, and weather forecasts are pretty much works of fiction no matter what the season.

In short, if you want to play tourist to gauge suitability of different places to live then it's at least as good to know how bad it can get as it is to know the good, so it wouldn't matter. If you want to sell your family or yourself on a particular location to settle then wait for summer.

[Disco]

Thanks Ocean1, thats very helpful. Spring it is! It will give us a little more time to prepare and find some good accommodations.