I've lived here in Auckland since 2010, being originally from the north of England. I am yet to see a 'winter' in Auckland. Every year it gets a bit more rainy in the winter months and the temperature drops to around 3 or 4C at night...that's it, it's still in double digits in the daytime. Although I am coming from a place where it rained all year and had snowy -10C winters. I remember not long after I arrived in NZ there was one freak weather day where there was sleet in the city for about 60 seconds and everyone lost their minds as it hadn't snowed in 50 years or something.....those who had never left the city were experiencing snow for the first time....it baffled me how much of a big deal it was. I haven't worn a coat for the past year and I've downgraded to one pair of jeans as I'm always in shorts and jandals. This place really is part of the 'winterless-north'.

I meant generally, in regards to the comment about places in the US having colder/wetter winters.