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Hot Water Beach

Thames-Coromandel District, New Zealand · sea 21 °C at its warmest, in February

Hot Water Beach

Photo: W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sea temperature month by month

20Jan
21Feb
20.6Mar
19.6Apr
18.1May
16.6Jun
15.5Jul
14.9Aug
15Sep
15.6Oct
16.8Nov
18.5Dec

Monthly means in °C, NOAA OISST v2.1 climatology 1991–2020.

About

Hot Water Beach is a beach on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, just south of Mercury Bay.

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Questions

How warm is the sea at Hot Water Beach?

The sea off Hot Water Beach averages 21 °C at its warmest, in February, and 14.9 °C at its coolest. These are monthly means from NOAA's OISST v2.1 satellite and buoy record for 1991 to 2020, sampled at the beach's own coordinates.

When can you swim at Hot Water Beach?

The sea reaches 20 °C or more from January to March. Twenty degrees is where most swimmers stop calling water cold; below it, a wetsuit helps.

Where is Hot Water Beach?

Hot Water Beach is on the coast of Thames-Coromandel District, New Zealand, at -36.8798, 175.8189. The globe on this site flies straight to it.

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