Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Adelaide.

November leads for comfortable weather in Adelaide: typically 25.4°C by day, 14.1°C at night, with 31 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortNovember

Typical high25.4°C

Typical low14.1°C

Rain in November31 mm

Comfort

November

November · March · April

92climate match

Beach

February

February · January · December

88climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · October

86climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 46 against November’s 92 — days reach only 15.6°C, 8° 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

7630° / 17.6°

Feb

7729.7° / 17.5°

Mar

9026.6° / 15.3°

Apr

9023° / 12.7°

May

6619° / 10.2°

Jun

5016.2° / 8.3°

Jul

4615.6° / 7.7°

Aug

5116.7° / 8.1°

Sep

6619.3° / 9.9°

Oct

8622.5° / 11.8°

Nov

9225.4° / 14.1°

Dec

8527.6° / 15.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Adelaide — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 21 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	30°C	17.6°C	21 mm	3.1	21.3°C	14 h 16	76	Strong coverage
February	29.7°C	17.5°C	20 mm	2.3	21.8°C	13 h 25	77	Strong coverage
March	26.6°C	15.3°C	25 mm	3.5	21.1°C	12 h 24	90	Strong coverage
April	23°C	12.7°C	36 mm	5.2	19.3°C	11 h 16	90	Strong coverage
May	19°C	10.2°C	59 mm	8.8	17.2°C	10 h 19	66	Strong coverage
June	16.2°C	8.3°C	76 mm	10.6	15.1°C	9 h 49	50	Strong coverage
July	15.6°C	7.7°C	70 mm	11.9	13.5°C	10 h 01	46	Strong coverage
August	16.7°C	8.1°C	67 mm	11.7	13.0°C	10 h 49	51	Strong coverage
September	19.3°C	9.9°C	60 mm	9.3	13.9°C	11 h 55	66	Strong coverage
October	22.5°C	11.8°C	40 mm	6	15.7°C	13 h 02	86	Strong coverage
November	25.4°C	14.1°C	31 mm	4.8	17.7°C	14 h 01	92	Strong coverage
December	27.6°C	15.8°C	27 mm	4.4	19.7°C	14 h 29	85	Strong coverage

Records at ADELAIDE (KENT TOWN), 1977–2020
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	47.7°C24 Jan 2019	9.2°C12 Jan 1983	28 mm22 Jan 1997	53 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 2019	43
February	44.7°C2 Feb 2014	9.5°C22 Feb 1993	75 mm14 Feb 2014	98 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 2007	44
March	42.2°C1 Mar 2019	7.2°C28 Mar 1984	52 mm16 Mar 1985	106 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1994	44
April	36.9°C11 Apr 2018	4.3°C24 Apr 1999	39 mm27 Apr 2007	106 mm1998 · driest 1 mm in 1981	44
May	31.1°C8 May 2013	1.5°C22 May 1985	41 mm23 May 1999	128 mm1987 · driest 8 mm in 2005	44
June	25.4°C8 Jun 2005	-0.4°C8 Jun 1982	55 mm21 Jun 2005	175 mm1981 · driest 9 mm in 2017	44
July	23.1°C27 Jul 2002	0.4°C16 Jul 1982	38 mm5 Jul 2016	160 mm1986 · driest 21 mm in 2020	44
August	30.4°C30 Aug 2007	0.9°C4 Aug 2014	43 mm30 Aug 1992	129 mm1992 · driest 11 mm in 2006	43
September	34.3°C26 Sep 1987	2.6°C1 Sep 1987	43 mm2 Sep 2001	151 mm1992 · driest 12 mm in 2008	43
October	39.0°C31 Oct 1987	4.7°C9 Oct 2003	56 mm31 Oct 1997	105 mm1980 · driest 1 mm in 2006	43
November	43.0°C19 Nov 2009	5.3°C1 Nov 2010	45 mm8 Nov 2005	107 mm1992 · driest 1 mm in 1996	43
December	45.2°C19 Dec 2019	7.9°C2 Dec 2015	66 mm8 Dec 2010	87 mm2010 · driest 6 mm in 1991	43

Typical days per month at ADELAIDE (KENT TOWN), 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	23	15	<1
February	21	13	<1
March	17	8	<1
April	9	2	1
May	2	0	2
June	<1	0	2
July	0	0	2
August	<1	0	2
September	4	<1	2
October	9	3	1
November	14	7	<1
December	18	10	<1

How often, not how much — every day in ADELAIDE (KENT TOWN)’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	90%	9%	2%	5%	26.4–32.1°C
February	92%	8%	2%	4%	27.3–32.1°C
March	85%	12%	3%	8%	24.5–28.6°C
April	65%	18%	4%	18%	20.5–24.8°C
May	30%	30%	6%	39%	17.7–20.3°C
June	4%	36%	8%	50%	15.3–17.0°C
July	4%	39%	7%	55%	14.3–16.3°C
August	14%	38%	6%	51%	15.2–18.5°C
September	32%	31%	6%	36%	17.4–20.8°C
October	55%	21%	3%	20%	20.7–24.2°C
November	73%	16%	3%	13%	22.9–27.7°C
December	83%	14%	2%	9%	25.3–28.9°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.

1978Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 42-year average. Warmest: 2007. Coolest: 1978.2019

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2078025
NOAA station: ASN00023090 · ADELAIDE (KENT TOWN)
Station distance: 2.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -34.93°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 21 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 ADELAIDE (KENT TOWN) is what differs

Adelaide city centre→Prospect→Athelstone→Magill→Campbelltown→North Adelaide→

Or put two places side by side: Adelaide vs Adelaide city centre

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Adelaide.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.