For the final cruise ship arrival of the season on Monday, sunny Napier overlooked the "sunny" part but that did not hinder or bother the hundreds of passengers who poured into the city from the liner Noordam.
"Weather can never spoil a really nice place," an American passenger who gave his name as George "from the west" said as he and his wife admired the bronze statue of the waving lady in Emerson St.
It was more a case of jackets and windbreakers, and the occasional scarf was spotted, for the visitors as the temperature struggled to make it to 16C by noon.
Cloudy skies and brisk southwesterly winds welcomed the last coach loads of passengers to town.
The Noordam, with 1924 passengers and 800 crew aboard, arrived in Napier Port from Wellington about 6am and was scheduled to depart at 2pm for Tauranga.