Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Rutherglen.

March leads for comfortable weather in Rutherglen: typically 27.6°C by day, 10.7°C at night, with 37 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMarch

Typical high27.6°C

Typical low10.7°C

Rain in March37 mm

Comfort

March

March · April · November

80climate match

Beach

February

February · January · December

72climate match

Outdoors

April

April · October · May

85climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 32 against March’s 80 — days reach only 12.9°C, 11° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 2.2°C.

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

7032.3° / 14.5°

Feb

7331.1° / 14.1°

Mar

8027.6° / 10.7°

Apr

7922.6° / 6.6°

May

5517.5° / 3.9°

Jun

3814° / 2.5°

Jul

3212.9° / 2.2°

Aug

3814.4° / 2.3°

Sep

5217.5° / 3.7°

Oct

7121.8° / 5.7°

Nov

7826.2° / 9°

Dec

7229.6° / 11.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Rutherglen — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	32.3°C	14.5°C	39 mm	4.5	14 h 21	70	Strong coverage
February	31.1°C	14.1°C	44 mm	4	13 h 28	73	Strong coverage
March	27.6°C	10.7°C	37 mm	3.4	12 h 25	80	Strong coverage
April	22.6°C	6.6°C	32 mm	4.1	11 h 14	79	Strong coverage
May	17.5°C	3.9°C	43 mm	5.8	10 h 15	55	Strong coverage
June	14°C	2.5°C	50 mm	7.6	9 h 43	38	Strong coverage
July	12.9°C	2.2°C	56 mm	8.9	9 h 56	32	Strong coverage
August	14.4°C	2.3°C	54 mm	8.3	10 h 46	38	Strong coverage
September	17.5°C	3.7°C	54 mm	6.9	11 h 55	52	Strong coverage
October	21.8°C	5.7°C	49 mm	6.1	13 h 04	71	Strong coverage
November	26.2°C	9°C	52 mm	5.4	14 h 06	78	Strong coverage
December	29.6°C	11.6°C	45 mm	5.1	14 h 36	72	Strong coverage

What has changed

Rutherglen runs +1.1°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

+1.6

Feb

+0.3

Mar

+0.7

Apr

+0.9

May

+0.7

Jun

+0.5

Jul

+1.1

Aug

+0.9

Sep

+1.4

Oct

+2.0

Nov

+1.7

Dec

+1.7

March daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 31.0°C.

Records at RUTHERGLEN RESEARCH, 1965–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	46.5°C9 Jan 1979	1.9°C3 Jan 1986	95 mm30 Jan 2023	182 mm1974 · driest 0 mm in 2017	62
February	45.6°C1 Feb 1968	1.6°C27 Feb 1985	114 mm5 Feb 2011	250 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1968	62
March	40.2°C7 Mar 1983	0.0°C22 Mar 1965	81 mm1 Mar 2012	171 mm2012 · driest 0 mm in 1995	62
April	35.5°C4 Apr 1986	-3.2°C26 Apr 1981	64 mm16 Apr 1969	150 mm1974 · driest 1 mm in 2019	62
May	28.7°C3 May 2018	-4.7°C30 May 2021	64 mm18 May 1988	173 mm1988 · driest 3 mm in 2009	62
June	21.8°C7 Jun 2005	-7.5°C14 Jun 2006	43 mm2 Jun 2013	146 mm1981 · driest 7 mm in 2003	62
July	22.5°C28 Jul 1975	-6.9°C1 Jul 2017	45 mm3 Jul 1986	176 mm1981 · driest 10 mm in 1982	62
August	24.9°C29 Aug 1982	-5.7°C28 Aug 2018	39 mm14 Aug 2003	132 mm1970 · driest 8 mm in 2014	61
September	31.0°C19 Sep 2023	-4.9°C7 Sep 1982	52 mm25 Sep 1992	141 mm1966 · driest 9 mm in 1972	61
October	35.1°C13 Oct 2006	-5.1°C11 Oct 1982	53 mm15 Oct 2010	183 mm2022 · driest 1 mm in 2006	61
November	42.6°C28 Nov 2020	-2.8°C27 Nov 1967	68 mm12 Nov 1998	157 mm2022 · driest 1 mm in 1967	61
December	43.6°C30 Dec 2019	0.0°C4 Dec 1984	56 mm2 Dec 2017	154 mm1975 · driest 1 mm in 1979	61

Typical days per month at RUTHERGLEN RESEARCH, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	28	21	0	1
February	25	18	0	1
March	22	9	0	1
April	9	<1	1	<1
May	<1	0	7	1
June	0	0	10	2
July	0	0	11	2
August	0	0	11	1
September	<1	0	7	2
October	7	1	3	2
November	17	7	<1	2
December	25	15	0	1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was November (scoring 83); on 2011–2025 it is April (82). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in RUTHERGLEN RESEARCH’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	86%	13%	4%	9%	29.2–34.5°C
February	87%	13%	4%	10%	28.9–33.3°C
March	86%	13%	4%	12%	25.2–29.5°C
April	67%	17%	4%	17%	20.8–24.3°C
May	21%	23%	5%	26%	16.1–18.7°C
June	<1%	28%	6%	34%	12.4–15.1°C
July	<1%	31%	6%	39%	11.5–13.9°C
August	4%	31%	5%	38%	13.0–16.1°C
September	18%	25%	6%	26%	15.5–18.8°C
October	52%	24%	6%	24%	19.0–24.0°C
November	75%	18%	5%	17%	23.4–28.8°C
December	83%	15%	5%	10%	27.1–31.3°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.

1965Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 58-year average. Warmest: 2007. Coolest: 1984.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2150788
NOAA station: ASN00082039 · RUTHERGLEN RESEARCH
Station distance: 7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -36.05°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
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 RUTHERGLEN RESEARCH is what differs

Beechworth→Howlong→Chiltern→Barnawartha→Springhurst→Byawatha→

Or put two places side by side: Rutherglen vs Beechworth

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