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Best time to visit
Katherine East.

June leads for comfortable weather in Katherine East: typically 30.1°C by day, 13.8°C at night, with 0 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJune

Typical high30.1°C

Typical low13.8°C

Rain in June0 mm

Comfort

June

June · July · August

78climate match

Beach

April

April · May · June

83climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

63climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against June’s 78 — 291 mm of rain falls, and days average 34.3°C, 10° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

534.3° / 24.1°

Feb

1533.8° / 24.1°

Mar

2734.3° / 23°

Apr

5534° / 20.7°

May

7032.1° / 16.8°

Jun

7830.1° / 13.8°

Jul

7530.4° / 13°

Aug

7232.2° / 14.7°

Sep

5135.9° / 20.2°

Oct

4037.6° / 23.6°

Nov

2637.4° / 24.7°

Dec

1135.7° / 24.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Katherine East — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	34.3°C	24.1°C	291 mm	15.2	12 h 54	5	Good coverage
February	33.8°C	24.1°C	222 mm	14.1	12 h 35	15	Good coverage
March	34.3°C	23°C	166 mm	9.9	12 h 13	27	Good coverage
April	34°C	20.7°C	44 mm	2.8	11 h 48	55	Good coverage
May	32.1°C	16.8°C	3 mm	0.4	11 h 27	70	Good coverage
June	30.1°C	13.8°C	0 mm	0.2	11 h 17	78	Good coverage
July	30.4°C	13°C	0 mm	0	11 h 21	75	Good coverage
August	32.2°C	14.7°C	1 mm	0.2	11 h 38	72	Good coverage
September	35.9°C	20.2°C	4 mm	0.4	12 h 02	51	Good coverage
October	37.6°C	23.6°C	31 mm	2.7	12 h 27	40	Good coverage
November	37.4°C	24.7°C	97 mm	7.3	12 h 48	26	Good coverage
December	35.7°C	24.5°C	215 mm	12.2	12 h 59	11	Good coverage

Records at KATHERINE AVIATION MUSEUM, 1946–2011
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	40.9°C13 Jan 1992	19.0°C7 Jan 2005	228 mm11 Jan 2001	914 mm1998 · driest 71 mm in 1972	27
February	39.0°C21 Feb 1996	18.7°C6 Feb 1971	80 mm2 Feb 2009	470 mm2008 · driest 59 mm in 1996	26
March	39.8°C10 Mar 2005	15.5°C24 Mar 1997	130 mm22 Mar 2007	476 mm2007 · driest 3 mm in 1991	25
April	38.3°C12 Apr 1990	9.8°C13 Apr 1994	88 mm5 Apr 2011	228 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2007	25
May	36.5°C18 May 1990	6.3°C30 May 2006	57 mm21 May 1990	88 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 1997	26
June	36.1°C3 Jun 1970	3.8°C28 Jun 1999	6 mm29 Jun 1998	8 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 2008	27
July	36.0°C15 Jul 1995	4.2°C1 Jul 1994	0 mm2 Jul 2006	0 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2006	27
August	37.7°C23 Aug 1998	4.0°C17 Aug 2002	27 mm17 Aug 2007	32 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 2008	27
September	40.5°C28 Sep 1997	8.2°C5 Sep 2004	37 mm24 Sep 1998	49 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2004	27
October	41.6°C23 Oct 2002	13.3°C2 Oct 1946	72 mm19 Oct 2000	124 mm2001 · driest 0 mm in 1991	26
November	43.1°C4 Nov 1971	14.5°C14 Nov 1999	96 mm13 Nov 2001	239 mm2001 · driest 18 mm in 1946	26
December	41.5°C9 Dec 2009	19.3°C20 Dec 1971	204 mm23 Dec 2003	531 mm2003 · driest 45 mm in 1972	27

Typical days per month at KATHERINE AVIATION MUSEUM, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	31	29	9
February	28	27	8
March	31	30	5
April	30	29	1
May	31	26	<1
June	29	17	0
July	31	19	0
August	31	27	0
September	30	29	<1
October	30	30	1
November	30	30	3
December	30	30	7

How often, not how much — every day in KATHERINE AVIATION MUSEUM’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	49%	49%	26%	67%	33.0–36.2°C
February	44%	52%	26%	70%	32.5–35.6°C
March	62%	36%	16%	40%	32.9–35.8°C
April	89%	9%	4%	6%	32.7–35.7°C
May	98%	2%	<1%	0%	30.8–33.3°C
June	99%	<1%	0%	<1%	28.0–31.7°C
July	100%	<1%	<1%	<1%	29.7–31.5°C
August	99%	<1%	<1%	0%	31.1–33.7°C
September	99%	2%	<1%	<1%	34.6–36.7°C
October	91%	9%	3%	6%	36.7–38.7°C
November	74%	24%	10%	27%	36.4–38.9°C
December	57%	39%	19%	54%	34.6–37.3°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1971Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 24-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 2006.2010

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 11185808
NOAA station: ASN00014903 · KATHERINE AVIATION MUSEUM
Station distance: 2.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -14.47°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from KATHERINE AVIATION MUSEUM is what differs

Katherine→Katherine South→Cossack→Nitmiluk→Emugalan→Binjari→

Or put two places side by side: Katherine East vs Katherine

Best time to visitKatherine East.