Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Stanley.

February leads for comfortable weather in Stanley: typically 22°C by day, 11.5°C at night, with 35 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortFebruary

Typical high22°C

Typical low11.5°C

Rain in February35 mm

Comfort

February

February · January · March

85climate match

Beach

February

February · January · March

50climate match

Outdoors

January

January · February · March

89climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 21 against February’s 85 — days reach only 13.1°C, 11° 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

8321.8° / 11.1°

Feb

8522° / 11.5°

Mar

7120.4° / 9.7°

Apr

5717.8° / 7.7°

May

3815.4° / 6.3°

Jun

3013.7° / 4.9°

Jul

2113.1° / 4.7°

Aug

2313.6° / 5.1°

Sep

3414.8° / 6.2°

Oct

4716.4° / 6.9°

Nov

6218.4° / 8.8°

Dec

6819.7° / 9.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Stanley — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 14 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	21.8°C	11.1°C	39 mm	5.6	17.3°C	14 h 47	83	Good coverage
February	22°C	11.5°C	35 mm	5.1	18.2°C	13 h 44	85	Good coverage
March	20.4°C	9.7°C	55 mm	8.1	18.0°C	12 h 29	71	Good coverage
April	17.8°C	7.7°C	61 mm	9.8	16.7°C	11 h 04	57	Good coverage
May	15.4°C	6.3°C	92 mm	13.7	15.1°C	9 h 54	38	Good coverage
June	13.7°C	4.9°C	97 mm	13.7	13.6°C	9 h 16	30	Good coverage
July	13.1°C	4.7°C	122 mm	17	12.4°C	9 h 31	21	Good coverage
August	13.6°C	5.1°C	123 mm	17.3	11.6°C	10 h 31	23	Good coverage
September	14.8°C	6.2°C	98 mm	15.7	11.8°C	11 h 53	34	Good coverage
October	16.4°C	6.9°C	75 mm	11.9	12.7°C	13 h 15	47	Good coverage
November	18.4°C	8.8°C	58 mm	8.7	14.1°C	14 h 29	62	Good coverage
December	19.7°C	9.7°C	56 mm	8.9	15.8°C	15 h 05	68	Strong coverage

Records at SMITHTON AERODROME, 1996–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	36.6°C30 Jan 2009	0.4°C19 Jan 2004	41 mm22 Jan 1997	119 mm1997 · driest 3 mm in 2026	30
February	30.5°C3 Feb 2000	1.2°C13 Feb 2005	36 mm9 Feb 1997	95 mm1999 · driest 5 mm in 2007	30
March	32.5°C7 Mar 2013	-0.4°C5 Mar 2011	39 mm16 Mar 2012	110 mm2012 · driest 9 mm in 2002	30
April	27.5°C1 Apr 2005	-3.0°C25 Apr 1997	49 mm12 Apr 2003	118 mm2020 · driest 10 mm in 2002	30
May	21.7°C5 May 2025	-3.4°C18 May 2024	62 mm20 May 2017	175 mm2016 · driest 19 mm in 2024	30
June	18.3°C2 Jun 2014	-4.5°C19 Jun 2024	50 mm1 Jun 2006	228 mm2023 · driest 35 mm in 1997	30
July	17.6°C16 Jul 2006	-3.8°C18 Jul 2015	82 mm21 Jul 2000	235 mm2016 · driest 35 mm in 2020	30
August	18.8°C17 Aug 2024	-3.2°C10 Aug 2020	38 mm10 Aug 2001	287 mm2013 · driest 50 mm in 2006	29
September	21.8°C29 Sep 2001	-2.3°C1 Sep 2015	55 mm9 Sep 2016	182 mm2003 · driest 23 mm in 2015	29
October	25.5°C12 Oct 2006	-1.2°C17 Oct 2000	45 mm31 Oct 2010	164 mm2021 · driest 5 mm in 2015	29
November	27.1°C19 Nov 2009	-0.5°C2 Nov 2024	35 mm1 Nov 1997	135 mm2013 · driest 5 mm in 2003	29
December	30.1°C10 Dec 2006	1.0°C27 Dec 1996	32 mm22 Dec 2003	119 mm2008 · driest 15 mm in 2021	30

Typical days per month at SMITHTON AERODROME, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	4	0	1
February	3	0	<1
March	1	0	2
April	<1	<1	2
May	0	1	3
June	0	3	3
July	0	3	4
August	0	2	4
September	0	1	3
October	<1	<1	2
November	<1	0	2
December	1	0	2

How often, not how much — every day in SMITHTON AERODROME’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	71%	18%	4%	17%	21.0–23.2°C
February	72%	18%	3%	13%	20.6–23.1°C
March	52%	25%	5%	30%	19.2–22.0°C
April	15%	33%	6%	44%	17.0–19.1°C
May	<1%	43%	9%	56%	14.7–16.6°C
June	0%	46%	11%	66%	13.1–14.5°C
July	0%	54%	13%	75%	12.6–13.9°C
August	0%	56%	13%	75%	13.0–14.3°C
September	<1%	53%	9%	72%	14.2–15.5°C
October	4%	39%	8%	56%	15.5–17.0°C
November	22%	30%	7%	40%	17.4–20.0°C
December	40%	28%	5%	32%	18.8–20.9°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.

1997Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 29-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 2006.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2148528
NOAA station: ASN00091292 · SMITHTON AERODROME
Station distance: 19.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -40.76°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 14 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 SMITHTON AERODROME is what differs

Smithton→Forest→Scotchtown→Edith Creek→Mengha→Mawbanna→

Or put two places side by side: Stanley vs Smithton

Best time to visitStanley.

February

February

January

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Stanley.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.