Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Townsville.

July leads for comfortable weather in Townsville: typically 25.7°C by day, 14°C at night, with 14 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high25.7°C

Typical low14°C

Rain in July14 mm

Comfort

July

July · June · August

93climate match

Beach

October

October · April · May

97climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

76climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 7 against July’s 93 — 333 mm of rain falls, and days average 31.7°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

1931.9° / 24.7°

Feb

731.7° / 24.7°

Mar

3931.3° / 23.5°

Apr

6530.2° / 21.1°

May

8128.2° / 18°

Jun

9226.2° / 15.3°

Jul

9325.7° / 14°

Aug

9126.5° / 14.8°

Sep

8028.4° / 17.9°

Oct

7029.8° / 21.1°

Nov

5731° / 23.1°

Dec

4131.9° / 24.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Townsville — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 17 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	31.9°C	24.7°C	253 mm	11.3	28.9°C	13 h 10	19	Strong coverage
February	31.7°C	24.7°C	333 mm	12.2	29.1°C	12 h 45	7	Strong coverage
March	31.3°C	23.5°C	157 mm	7.9	28.4°C	12 h 15	39	Strong coverage
April	30.2°C	21.1°C	54 mm	4.3	27.0°C	11 h 41	65	Strong coverage
May	28.2°C	18°C	26 mm	2.8	25.1°C	11 h 13	81	Strong coverage
June	26.2°C	15.3°C	18 mm	2.4	23.3°C	10 h 59	92	Strong coverage
July	25.7°C	14°C	14 mm	1.7	22.3°C	11 h 04	93	Strong coverage
August	26.5°C	14.8°C	20 mm	1.3	22.5°C	11 h 28	91	Strong coverage
September	28.4°C	17.9°C	10 mm	1.4	24.0°C	12 h 01	80	Strong coverage
October	29.8°C	21.1°C	24 mm	2.7	25.7°C	12 h 34	70	Strong coverage
November	31°C	23.1°C	61 mm	5.1	27.2°C	13 h 03	57	Strong coverage
December	31.9°C	24.5°C	123 mm	7.2	28.4°C	13 h 17	41	Strong coverage

What has changed

Townsville runs +0.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+0.7

Feb

+0.8

Mar

+0.7

Apr

+0.8

May

+0.7

Jun

+0.8

Jul

+1.0

Aug

+0.9

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+0.9

Nov

+0.7

Dec

+0.8

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.4°C.

Records at TOWNSVILLE AERO, 1940–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	39.8°C20 Jan 1971	18.7°C6 Jan 2001	549 mm11 Jan 1998	1142 mm1953 · driest 9 mm in 1947	86
February	40.7°C21 Feb 2019	17.9°C16 Feb 1951	318 mm1 Feb 1977	1198 mm2025 · driest 4 mm in 1983	86
March	37.6°C15 Mar 1993	16.7°C28 Mar 1951	367 mm3 Mar 1946	1005 mm2025 · driest 2 mm in 2008	86
April	35.8°C2 Apr 1988	10.9°C14 Apr 1994	272 mm4 Apr 2000	546 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1947	86
May	32.2°C1 May 1996	6.2°C23 May 1957	121 mm19 May 2017	181 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 2026	86
June	32.2°C17 Jun 2002	4.4°C20 Jun 1995	93 mm6 Jun 1990	111 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1946	86
July	31.6°C14 Jul 1964	3.5°C6 Jul 1984	90 mm10 Jul 2012	174 mm1950 · driest 0 mm in 2002	86
August	33.3°C28 Aug 1964	1.1°C9 Aug 1941	134 mm30 Aug 1998	258 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1945	85
September	36.5°C15 Sep 2003	7.7°C4 Sep 1985	65 mm20 Sep 2010	84 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1991	85
October	37.1°C25 Oct 1958	8.2°C3 Oct 1941	89 mm14 Oct 1975	253 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 1941	85
November	39.0°C30 Nov 1992	14.1°C21 Nov 1986	133 mm24 Nov 1950	345 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1990	86
December	40.8°C21 Dec 1995	17.9°C5 Dec 1998	207 mm31 Dec 2009	487 mm2024 · driest 0 mm in 2001	86

Typical days per month at TOWNSVILLE AERO, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	31	28	5
February	28	24	6
March	31	27	3
April	30	19	1
May	30	3	<1
June	23	<1	<1
July	23	<1	<1
August	27	<1	<1
September	30	4	<1
October	31	13	<1
November	30	25	2
December	31	28	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 95); on 2011–2025 it is July (94). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in TOWNSVILLE AERO’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	62%	38%	19%	50%	30.2–32.9°C
February	55%	45%	23%	59%	30.1–32.4°C
March	69%	31%	13%	37%	29.6–32.0°C
April	82%	18%	5%	17%	28.7–31.0°C
May	89%	12%	3%	8%	26.7–28.8°C
June	92%	8%	2%	4%	24.4–27.1°C
July	93%	6%	1%	5%	24.2–26.3°C
August	95%	5%	1%	3%	25.2–27.2°C
September	96%	4%	<1%	2%	27.0–28.9°C
October	91%	9%	2%	7%	28.6–30.7°C
November	84%	16%	5%	17%	29.9–31.8°C
December	76%	24%	10%	29%	30.4–32.6°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.

1941Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 85-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1941.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2146142
NOAA station: ASN00032040 · TOWNSVILLE AERO
Station distance: 4.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -19.27°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 17 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 TOWNSVILLE AERO is what differs

Kirwan→Kelso→Mount Louisa→Douglas→Annandale→Bushland Beach→

Or put two places side by side: Townsville vs Kirwan

Best time to visitTownsville.

July

October

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Townsville runs +0.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Townsville.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Townsville runs +0.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.