Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
South Kempsey.

September leads for comfortable weather in South Kempsey: typically 24.1°C by day, 9.2°C at night, with 47 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24.1°C

Typical low9.2°C

Rain in September47 mm

Comfort

September

September · October · April

86climate match

Beach

January

January · December · February

68climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · September

89climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 51 against September’s 86 — 176 mm of rain falls, and days average 28.8°C, 5° 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

5729.2° / 18.4°

Feb

5128.8° / 18.4°

Mar

6127.6° / 16.9°

Apr

8125.4° / 13.8°

May

7722.6° / 10.3°

Jun

6220.3° / 7.8°

Jul

6819.9° / 6.3°

Aug

7221.5° / 6.3°

Sep

8624.1° / 9.2°

Oct

8225.5° / 12°

Nov

7226.5° / 15.1°

Dec

6628° / 16.9°

Monthly climate evidence for South Kempsey — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 28 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	29.2°C	18.4°C	131 mm	9.9	25.0°C	13 h 58	57	Good coverage
February	28.8°C	18.4°C	176 mm	10.8	25.7°C	13 h 14	51	Good coverage
March	27.6°C	16.9°C	154 mm	11	25.5°C	12 h 22	61	Good coverage
April	25.4°C	13.8°C	89 mm	8.1	24.6°C	11 h 22	81	Good coverage
May	22.6°C	10.3°C	76 mm	7.1	23.2°C	10 h 34	77	Good coverage
June	20.3°C	7.8°C	103 mm	7	21.7°C	10 h 08	62	Good coverage
July	19.9°C	6.3°C	43 mm	5.3	20.6°C	10 h 18	68	Good coverage
August	21.5°C	6.3°C	55 mm	4.3	20.4°C	11 h	72	Good coverage
September	24.1°C	9.2°C	47 mm	5	20.6°C	11 h 57	86	Good coverage
October	25.5°C	12°C	63 mm	6.9	21.3°C	12 h 54	82	Good coverage
November	26.5°C	15.1°C	125 mm	10.9	22.6°C	13 h 45	72	Good coverage
December	28°C	16.9°C	114 mm	10.3	23.9°C	14 h 09	66	Good coverage

Records at KEMPSEY (WIDE STREET), 1965–2014
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	43.0°C8 Jan 1994	8.3°C9 Jan 1967	223 mm4 Jan 1995	571 mm1974 · driest 17 mm in 2014	47
February	43.0°C21 Feb 2004	9.4°C18 Feb 1988	186 mm17 Feb 2009	664 mm2009 · driest 32 mm in 1987	46
March	39.5°C19 Mar 2002	6.6°C23 Mar 1991	267 mm11 Mar 1974	594 mm1974 · driest 16 mm in 1991	46
April	36.5°C5 Apr 1986	4.5°C29 Apr 2008	131 mm6 Apr 1990	503 mm1988 · driest 10 mm in 2006	46
May	31.0°C4 May 2007	1.0°C30 May 2004	187 mm19 May 1977	481 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 2006	45
June	27.5°C26 Jun 1991	-1.8°C14 Jun 1993	149 mm4 Jun 1974	558 mm1967 · driest 7 mm in 1981	45
July	28.2°C18 Jul 1974	-1.6°C31 Jul 1982	172 mm10 Jul 1985	257 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 1995	46
August	34.5°C24 Aug 2009	-1.5°C4 Aug 1995	166 mm6 Aug 1967	275 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1991	47
September	36.1°C26 Sep 1965	0.9°C14 Sep 1996	90 mm6 Sep 2008	198 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 2003	48
October	39.9°C31 Oct 1965	1.8°C6 Oct 1988	193 mm11 Oct 1982	587 mm1972 · driest 7 mm in 1989	47
November	42.6°C28 Nov 1980	4.5°C4 Nov 1974	136 mm7 Nov 2009	276 mm1996 · driest 24 mm in 1980	47
December	41.0°C1 Dec 2004	7.4°C28 Dec 1993	105 mm29 Dec 1971	247 mm1971 · driest 17 mm in 1966	47

Typical days per month at KEMPSEY (WIDE STREET), 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	28	13	0	4
February	26	11	0	4
March	26	5	0	4
April	18	1	0	3
May	5	<1	0	2
June	<1	0	<1	3
July	<1	0	<1	1
August	4	<1	<1	1
September	11	2	0	2
October	17	4	0	2
November	20	5	0	3
December	26	8	0	3

How often, not how much — every day in KEMPSEY (WIDE STREET)’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	67%	30%	12%	36%	27.5–30.1°C
February	61%	35%	14%	46%	27.2–30.2°C
March	63%	34%	13%	42%	26.3–28.6°C
April	70%	28%	10%	32%	24.2–26.4°C
May	67%	22%	8%	25%	21.3–23.6°C
June	45%	20%	8%	21%	19.2–21.2°C
July	39%	16%	5%	17%	18.9–20.6°C
August	59%	16%	5%	14%	19.8–22.4°C
September	77%	17%	5%	16%	22.1–25.5°C
October	74%	23%	6%	24%	23.8–26.6°C
November	67%	27%	9%	31%	25.1–27.8°C
December	68%	28%	10%	33%	26.9–29.8°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.

1965Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 44-year average. Warmest: 1973. Coolest: 1994.2014

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 11704302
NOAA station: ASN00059017 · KEMPSEY (WIDE STREET)
Station distance: 5.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -31.12°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 28 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.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from KEMPSEY (WIDE STREET) is what differs

Kempsey→West Kempsey→Crescent Head→Frederickton→East Kempsey→Green Hill→

Or put two places side by side: South Kempsey vs Kempsey

Best time to visitSouth Kempsey.