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Best time to visit
Nhulunbuy.

July leads for comfortable weather in Nhulunbuy: typically 28.1°C by day, 20.1°C at night, with 17 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high28.1°C

Typical low20.1°C

Rain in July17 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

77climate match

Beach

June

June · July · August

95climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

57climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 9 against July’s 77 — 284 mm of rain falls, and days average 32.1°C, 8° 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

932.1° / 24.9°

Feb

1231.7° / 24.7°

Mar

1431.4° / 24.1°

Apr

2231° / 23.4°

May

5330° / 22.8°

Jun

7128.5° / 21.5°

Jul

7728.1° / 20.1°

Aug

7728.8° / 19.1°

Sep

7030.6° / 19.8°

Oct

6232° / 21.7°

Nov

5433.2° / 23.6°

Dec

2633.1° / 24.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Nhulunbuy — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 12 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	32.1°C	24.9°C	284 mm	16.3	29.7°C	12 h 46	9	Strong coverage
February	31.7°C	24.7°C	275 mm	15.4	29.6°C	12 h 31	12	Strong coverage
March	31.4°C	24.1°C	273 mm	15.7	29.7°C	12 h 12	14	Strong coverage
April	31°C	23.4°C	252 mm	13	29.3°C	11 h 51	22	Strong coverage
May	30°C	22.8°C	91 mm	8.8	28.0°C	11 h 34	53	Strong coverage
June	28.5°C	21.5°C	29 mm	5.5	26.4°C	11 h 25	71	Strong coverage
July	28.1°C	20.1°C	17 mm	3.4	25.3°C	11 h 28	77	Strong coverage
August	28.8°C	19.1°C	6 mm	1.5	25.1°C	11 h 43	77	Strong coverage
September	30.6°C	19.8°C	8 mm	0.8	26.3°C	12 h 03	70	Strong coverage
October	32°C	21.7°C	10 mm	1.3	27.7°C	12 h 23	62	Strong coverage
November	33.2°C	23.6°C	37 mm	2.6	29.1°C	12 h 41	54	Strong coverage
December	33.1°C	24.8°C	183 mm	9.8	29.8°C	12 h 50	26	Strong coverage

Records at GOVE AIRPORT, 1966–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	37.1°C2 Jan 1991	19.8°C25 Jan 1972	120 mm22 Jan 1987	740 mm2003 · driest 28 mm in 2016	47
February	36.7°C22 Feb 2019	20.1°C11 Feb 2012	149 mm18 Feb 2015	571 mm2004 · driest 65 mm in 1986	47
March	36.1°C3 Mar 2016	16.9°C31 Mar 1971	195 mm12 Mar 2005	515 mm1988 · driest 33 mm in 1993	47
April	35.1°C12 Apr 2014	17.8°C26 Apr 1990	437 mm22 Apr 1999	1080 mm1999 · driest 7 mm in 1969	47
May	34.0°C2 May 1988	13.2°C27 May 1967	187 mm19 May 2004	373 mm2004 · driest 3 mm in 2002	47
June	32.8°C16 Jun 2002	13.0°C9 Jun 1967	70 mm19 Jun 1969	113 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 2011	47
July	31.1°C30 Jul 2021	11.5°C28 Jul 1996	47 mm14 Jul 1990	79 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2007	46
August	33.4°C30 Aug 2021	11.1°C11 Aug 1986	16 mm6 Aug 1999	28 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 2025	46
September	35.2°C7 Sep 1997	11.4°C1 Sep 1967	60 mm20 Sep 2010	86 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2004	46
October	37.2°C30 Oct 2020	14.1°C7 Oct 1966	42 mm17 Oct 2010	191 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2014	45
November	38.0°C10 Nov 2015	16.7°C26 Nov 2003	121 mm30 Nov 2000	190 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 1992	46
December	38.7°C4 Dec 2018	19.6°C3 Dec 2009	161 mm26 Dec 2021	544 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2019	46

Typical days per month at GOVE AIRPORT, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	31	27	8
February	28	24	8
March	31	25	8
April	30	24	6
May	31	17	2
June	29	3	<1
July	31	2	<1
August	31	6	<1
September	30	22	<1
October	31	30	<1
November	30	30	1
December	31	29	5

How often, not how much — every day in GOVE AIRPORT’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	50%	50%	27%	68%	31.1–33.1°C
February	46%	55%	27%	73%	30.5–33.2°C
March	49%	51%	27%	65%	30.3–32.3°C
April	57%	43%	21%	54%	29.8–31.9°C
May	73%	26%	7%	30%	29.2–30.7°C
June	82%	18%	2%	17%	27.3–29.3°C
July	88%	12%	1%	9%	27.1–28.8°C
August	96%	4%	<1%	1%	27.9–29.8°C
September	98%	2%	<1%	<1%	29.6–31.4°C
October	96%	4%	<1%	3%	31.1–32.9°C
November	92%	9%	4%	10%	32.5–34.1°C
December	71%	30%	15%	41%	31.9–34.5°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.

1967Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 44-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1972.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2064735
NOAA station: ASN00014508 · GOVE AIRPORT
Station distance: 11.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -12.18°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 12 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 GOVE AIRPORT is what differs

Yirrkala→Gunyangara→Rurrangala→Gurkawur→Bukudal→Wandawuy→

Or put two places side by side: Nhulunbuy vs Yirrkala

Best time to visitNhulunbuy.

July

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July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Nhulunbuy.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.