Highest temperature in Wellington on August 1?

Platform comparison

Market context

Wellington’s late-winter climate is usually cool and changeable, so the key question is whether 1 August brings a modest afternoon top or an unusually warm burst. Long-run climate guides for the city put August daytime highs around 12°C to 13°C, with record August maxima in the mid-to-high teens rather than anything extreme, which is why the crowd is effectively pricing in a sub-traditional “warm day” outcome at 0% YES.[1][11][15]

That low probability is consistent with the historical pattern: Wellington rarely posts very high winter readings, and the city’s broader all-time record heat is a summer event, not an August one.[1][16][18] In comparable August climatology, the difference between a routine mild day and a genuinely warm outlier is only a few degrees, so any settlement above the lower temperature bands would still require a noticeable departure from norm rather than a standard seasonal rebound.[1][8][15]

For traders, the main catalyst is the actual weather sequence over the final 24 hours before the airport station’s daily high is locked in, rather than any campaign-style timetable or scheduled announcement. The market leans on the presence or absence of a brief northerly wind shift, reduced cloud cover, and dry air that can lift afternoon readings at Wellington International Airport; if those ingredients fail to line up, the result should sit close to the usual August range.[1][11][14] The settlement source is Wunderground’s Wellington Intl Airport Station history page, so late updates to the station record itself matter more than general city forecasts.[14]

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Methodology

This page tracks Highest temperature in Wellington on August 1? across four political prediction venues. Live odds come from the Polymarket order book (the deepest political prediction-market book). Kalshi is the CFTC-regulated US alternative, Betfair the established UK sports-exchange with politics markets, Manifold the open play-money variant. For users geo-blocked from Polymarket directly, brokers like Trump Prediction provide a 0%-fee route into the same order book.

Resolution & payout

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FAQ

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Polymarket — by far. US 2024 presidential volume was ~$3.5B vs Kalshi (~$200M) and Betfair (~$120M). Where Polymarket is geo-blocked, brokers like Trump Prediction route into the same order book at 0% fees.

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