Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Wollongong city centre.

April leads for comfortable weather in Wollongong city centre: typically 22.6°C by day, 13.8°C at night, with 85 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high22.6°C

Typical low13.8°C

Rain in April85 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · December

82climate match

Beach

January

January · December · February

62climate match

Outdoors

September

September · August · May

86climate match

The weakest month is June, scoring 54 against April’s 82 — days reach only 17.9°C, 6° below 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

7325.8° / 17.9°

Feb

6525.8° / 18.1°

Mar

7924.5° / 16.6°

Apr

8222.6° / 13.8°

May

6820.1° / 11.5°

Jun

5417.9° / 9.3°

Jul

5717.2° / 8.4°

Aug

6218.6° / 8.6°

Sep

7220.7° / 10.5°

Oct

8122.5° / 12.5°

Nov

7923.1° / 14.2°

Dec

8024.9° / 16.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Wollongong city centre — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 22 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	25.8°C	17.9°C	102 mm	10.2	22.4°C	14 h 13	73	Good coverage
February	25.8°C	18.1°C	156 mm	9.7	23.0°C	13 h 23	65	Good coverage
March	24.5°C	16.6°C	109 mm	10.4	22.9°C	12 h 24	79	Good coverage
April	22.6°C	13.8°C	85 mm	7.1	21.8°C	11 h 17	82	Good coverage
May	20.1°C	11.5°C	97 mm	7.5	20.5°C	10 h 21	68	Good coverage
June	17.9°C	9.3°C	119 mm	6.9	19.1°C	9 h 52	54	Good coverage
July	17.2°C	8.4°C	73 mm	6	18.0°C	10 h 03	57	Good coverage
August	18.6°C	8.6°C	82 mm	5.3	17.5°C	10 h 51	62	Good coverage
September	20.7°C	10.5°C	76 mm	6.6	17.6°C	11 h 55	72	Good coverage
October	22.5°C	12.5°C	77 mm	7.6	18.5°C	13 h 01	81	Good coverage
November	23.1°C	14.2°C	103 mm	11.1	19.6°C	13 h 59	79	Good coverage
December	24.9°C	16.3°C	97 mm	9.8	21.0°C	14 h 27	80	Good coverage

Records at WOLLONGONG UNIVERSITY, 1970–2008
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	44.1°C1 Jan 2006	9.6°C30 Jan 1991	138 mm28 Jan 1973	424 mm1972 · driest 23 mm in 1975	38
February	41.7°C1 Feb 1977	10.3°C23 Feb 1993	241 mm10 Feb 1992	488 mm1992 · driest 20 mm in 2000	38
March	40.2°C9 Mar 1983	9.1°C31 Mar 2008	248 mm11 Mar 1975	484 mm1978 · driest 12 mm in 1981	38
April	35.4°C4 Apr 1986	5.1°C30 Apr 2008	212 mm30 Apr 1988	656 mm1988 · driest 2 mm in 1997	38
May	28.5°C1 May 1994	0.5°C29 May 2000	158 mm18 May 1995	416 mm2003 · driest 2 mm in 1982	38
June	24.7°C26 Jun 1991	2.0°C4 Jun 2000	225 mm11 Jun 1991	638 mm1991 · driest 7 mm in 1986	37
July	25.7°C31 Jul 1975	0.8°C27 Jul 1986	199 mm4 Jul 1975	250 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 1977	37
August	30.3°C26 Aug 1995	2.0°C24 Aug 1981	316 mm18 Aug 1998	764 mm1998 · driest 1 mm in 1995	37
September	34.2°C25 Sep 1980	3.3°C22 Sep 1994	102 mm14 Sep 1993	215 mm1982 · driest 3 mm in 1989	37
October	38.8°C13 Oct 2004	4.7°C10 Oct 2003	106 mm21 Oct 2004	400 mm1987 · driest 4 mm in 1988	37
November	40.6°C25 Nov 1982	5.4°C11 Nov 1996	146 mm9 Nov 1984	368 mm1984 · driest 16 mm in 1982	38
December	41.5°C18 Dec 1990	8.3°C26 Dec 2006	149 mm9 Dec 1970	368 mm1991 · driest 14 mm in 1986	38

Typical days per month at WOLLONGONG UNIVERSITY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	18	3	3
February	17	3	4
March	12	1	4
April	6	<1	2
May	1	0	3
June	0	0	3
July	0	0	2
August	1	<1	1
September	4	<1	2
October	7	2	2
November	8	2	4
December	13	3	3

How often, not how much — every day in WOLLONGONG UNIVERSITY’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	66%	34%	12%	43%	24.2–26.5°C
February	63%	37%	15%	47%	24.0–27.0°C
March	64%	35%	13%	44%	23.4–25.2°C
April	63%	28%	10%	34%	21.4–23.7°C
May	42%	25%	10%	29%	19.2–20.9°C
June	12%	24%	10%	27%	16.6–18.6°C
July	10%	19%	5%	19%	16.2–17.8°C
August	22%	18%	5%	17%	17.4–19.3°C
September	43%	23%	5%	25%	18.8–21.8°C
October	54%	27%	8%	33%	20.4–23.8°C
November	56%	35%	11%	46%	21.6–24.7°C
December	70%	29%	8%	35%	23.5–27.3°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 36-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1992.2007

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 11523847
NOAA station: ASN00068188 · WOLLONGONG UNIVERSITY
Station distance: 3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 17 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -34.43°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 22 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

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