Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Surfers Paradise.

September leads for comfortable weather in Surfers Paradise: typically 24°C by day, 14.8°C at night, with 42 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24°C

Typical low14.8°C

Rain in September42 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · May

96climate match

Beach

January

January · March · November

70climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · September

87climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 41 against September’s 96 — 204 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

5028.9° / 21.9°

Feb

4128.8° / 21.8°

Mar

5428° / 20.9°

Apr

7026° / 18.3°

May

8423.6° / 15.4°

Jun

7521.4° / 13.3°

Jul

8121.3° / 12°

Aug

8522.1° / 12.4°

Sep

9624° / 14.8°

Oct

8125.4° / 16.9°

Nov

6826.9° / 19°

Dec

5628° / 20.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Surfers Paradise — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 24 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	28.9°C	21.9°C	148 mm	9.3	26.1°C	13 h 44	50	Strong coverage
February	28.8°C	21.8°C	204 mm	11.2	26.5°C	13 h 06	41	Strong coverage
March	28°C	20.9°C	138 mm	11.4	26.2°C	12 h 20	54	Strong coverage
April	26°C	18.3°C	122 mm	8.9	25.3°C	11 h 28	70	Strong coverage
May	23.6°C	15.4°C	102 mm	8.7	23.8°C	10 h 45	84	Strong coverage
June	21.4°C	13.3°C	104 mm	7.4	22.5°C	10 h 23	75	Strong coverage
July	21.3°C	12°C	52 mm	5.2	21.4°C	10 h 31	81	Strong coverage
August	22.1°C	12.4°C	57 mm	4.4	21.0°C	11 h 08	85	Strong coverage
September	24°C	14.8°C	42 mm	5.3	21.4°C	11 h 58	96	Strong coverage
October	25.4°C	16.9°C	87 mm	6.5	22.5°C	12 h 49	81	Strong coverage
November	26.9°C	19°C	108 mm	8.3	23.7°C	13 h 33	68	Strong coverage
December	28°C	20.6°C	142 mm	9.4	25.0°C	13 h 54	56	Strong coverage

Records at GOLD COAST SEAWAY, 1992–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	38.5°C12 Jan 2002	16.7°C19 Jan 2018	255 mm18 Jan 2020	400 mm2012 · driest 4 mm in 2019	34
February	40.5°C21 Feb 2004	17.2°C1 Feb 2004	178 mm13 Feb 2020	631 mm2020 · driest 17 mm in 2005	34
March	36.3°C1 Mar 1993	12.8°C28 Mar 2026	307 mm29 Mar 2022	545 mm2025 · driest 13 mm in 1998	34
April	33.3°C4 Apr 2006	8.9°C29 Apr 2008	183 mm29 Apr 2012	386 mm2009 · driest 13 mm in 2007	35
May	29.4°C4 May 2007	6.6°C29 May 2004	126 mm15 May 2003	344 mm2026 · driest 16 mm in 2018	35
June	27.7°C21 Jun 2000	3.8°C21 Jun 2004	129 mm5 Jun 2016	307 mm1999 · driest 12 mm in 2010	35
July	28.9°C23 Jul 2016	2.5°C19 Jul 2007	101 mm1 Jul 2005	172 mm1999 · driest 1 mm in 2007	35
August	32.4°C25 Aug 2009	4.2°C10 Aug 2008	144 mm29 Aug 1999	204 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 1997	34
September	33.0°C10 Sep 2003	7.9°C2 Sep 2015	87 mm12 Sep 1998	164 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2017	33
October	38.0°C27 Oct 2025	9.4°C18 Oct 2016	127 mm8 Oct 1997	374 mm2010 · driest 2 mm in 2014	33
November	35.5°C28 Nov 1995	8.2°C17 Nov 2006	150 mm7 Nov 2004	441 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 2019	33
December	39.4°C26 Dec 2001	14.7°C19 Dec 2005	112 mm27 Dec 2010	490 mm2010 · driest 21 mm in 2013	33

Typical days per month at GOLD COAST SEAWAY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	30	9	3
February	27	8	4
March	29	5	3
April	21	1	3
May	7	0	3
June	1	0	3
July	1	0	1
August	4	<1	1
September	11	<1	1
October	17	2	3
November	23	3	3
December	27	6	4

How often, not how much — every day in GOLD COAST SEAWAY’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%	33%	13%	43%	27.1–30.3°C
February	60%	39%	16%	50%	27.3–30.4°C
March	61%	39%	13%	49%	27.0–29.0°C
April	68%	32%	11%	40%	24.6–27.4°C
May	68%	30%	10%	35%	22.7–24.6°C
June	65%	23%	9%	25%	20.5–22.5°C
July	67%	19%	6%	17%	20.1–22.2°C
August	77%	15%	5%	17%	20.8–23.6°C
September	79%	18%	4%	14%	22.2–25.4°C
October	79%	21%	9%	22%	23.3–27.2°C
November	71%	29%	11%	38%	25.5–28.1°C
December	69%	31%	15%	38%	26.1–29.2°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.

1993Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 33-year average. Warmest: 2005. Coolest: 1994.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2147849
NOAA station: ASN00040764 · GOLD COAST SEAWAY
Station distance: 7.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -28.00°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 24 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 GOLD COAST SEAWAY is what differs

Gold Coast→Southport→Upper Coomera→Labrador→Helensvale→Pacific Pines→

Or put two places side by side: Surfers Paradise vs Gold Coast

Best time to visitSurfers Paradise.