Highest temperature in Wellington on August 6?

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Market context

The event is whether Wellington International Airport records its warmest reading on 6 August 2026, with settlement tied to the highest Celsius temperature shown for that day rather than any forecast at the start of the session. A crowd-implied 0% YES suggests traders are treating the upper temperature bands as effectively unreachable, which is consistent with Wellington’s winter climatology: August is typically one of the city’s coldest months, with average highs around the low teens Celsius and occasional warmer intrusions still far below summer levels.[6][12][13]

That is the right lens for reading comparables. Historical summaries for Wellington Airport and nearby weather archives show August highs usually clustering around 9–13°C, with record warmth for the month only modestly above that range, while the absolute city record sits well below heatwave territory.[2][6][12] In practical terms, markets like this tend to reprice only if a rare warm-air surge appears in the forecast; absent that, the distribution stays concentrated around a narrow winter band, which makes very high temperature bins remote rather than impossible.[4][6][15]

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