Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Rockhampton.

June leads for comfortable weather in Rockhampton: typically 24.2°C by day, 11.9°C at night, with 37 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJune

Typical high24.2°C

Typical low11.9°C

Rain in June37 mm

Comfort

June

June · July · May

93climate match

Beach

April

April · October · November

92climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

87climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 41 against June’s 93 — days average 32°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

4432.6° / 22.7°

Feb

4132° / 22.7°

Mar

5531.2° / 21.3°

Apr

7629.2° / 18.6°

May

9126.6° / 14.8°

Jun

9324.2° / 11.9°

Jul

9223.9° / 10.6°

Aug

8925.5° / 11.4°

Sep

8528.4° / 14.6°

Oct

7230.1° / 17.7°

Nov

6231.6° / 19.9°

Dec

4832.6° / 21.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Rockhampton — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 38 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	32.6°C	22.7°C	104 mm	7.6	27.5°C	13 h 26	44	Strong coverage
February	32°C	22.7°C	133 mm	8.9	27.7°C	12 h 55	41	Strong coverage
March	31.2°C	21.3°C	91 mm	5.7	26.8°C	12 h 17	55	Strong coverage
April	29.2°C	18.6°C	34 mm	3.8	25.4°C	11 h 35	76	Strong coverage
May	26.6°C	14.8°C	31 mm	3.2	23.3°C	11 h 00	91	Strong coverage
June	24.2°C	11.9°C	37 mm	3.9	21.3°C	10 h 42	93	Strong coverage
July	23.9°C	10.6°C	30 mm	2.5	20.1°C	10 h 49	92	Strong coverage
August	25.5°C	11.4°C	27 mm	2.4	20.2°C	11 h 19	89	Strong coverage
September	28.4°C	14.6°C	25 mm	2.4	21.7°C	11 h 59	85	Strong coverage
October	30.1°C	17.7°C	50 mm	4.2	23.6°C	12 h 41	72	Strong coverage
November	31.6°C	19.9°C	57 mm	4.5	25.3°C	13 h 17	62	Strong coverage
December	32.6°C	21.7°C	95 mm	6.6	26.7°C	13 h 34	48	Strong coverage

What has changed

Rockhampton 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

+1.0

Feb

+1.3

Mar

+1.1

Apr

+0.6

May

+0.7

Jun

+1.0

Jul

+1.1

Aug

+1.4

Sep

+1.5

Oct

+1.3

Nov

+1.1

Dec

+1.1

June daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.0°C.

Records at ROCKHAMPTON AERO, 1939–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	42.5°C22 Jan 1987	16.3°C7 Jan 1958	348 mm25 Jan 2013	660 mm1974 · driest 2 mm in 2003	87
February	43.3°C11 Feb 1969	16.2°C5 Feb 1945	183 mm18 Feb 1961	478 mm2008 · driest 3 mm in 1965	87
March	42.1°C8 Mar 1995	11.0°C23 Mar 1943	172 mm4 Mar 1983	447 mm1990 · driest 2 mm in 1960	87
April	36.6°C13 Apr 2023	4.7°C30 Apr 1952	60 mm4 Apr 2025	199 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 1951	87
May	34.4°C27 May 2016	2.9°C24 May 1957	108 mm1 May 1948	304 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 2021	87
June	32.3°C1 Jun 1962	-1.0°C23 Jun 1949	80 mm11 Jun 2006	186 mm1967 · driest 0 mm in 1946	87
July	30.6°C15 Jul 1946	-0.9°C18 Jul 1963	136 mm17 Jul 2016	252 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 2007	87
August	35.1°C30 Aug 2009	-0.3°C15 Aug 1941	85 mm14 Aug 2024	228 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2018	87
September	37.2°C26 Sep 2013	3.4°C4 Sep 1948	57 mm23 Sep 2014	147 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1939	87
October	41.1°C31 Oct 1958	7.0°C3 Oct 1957	102 mm18 Oct 2017	199 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1977	87
November	45.3°C18 Nov 1990	9.4°C5 Nov 1960	111 mm17 Nov 1977	286 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 2020	87
December	41.9°C16 Dec 2019	10.2°C12 Dec 1942	272 mm20 Dec 1973	533 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 2019	87

Typical days per month at ROCKHAMPTON AERO, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	31	27	3
February	28	22	3
March	31	22	2
April	29	11	1
May	25	2	1
June	12	<1	1
July	9	0	<1
August	18	1	<1
September	27	8	<1
October	30	15	2
November	30	21	2
December	31	25	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was August (scoring 91); on 2011–2025 it is June (94). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in ROCKHAMPTON 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	73%	27%	11%	34%	30.1–33.9°C
February	68%	32%	12%	40%	29.8–33.4°C
March	77%	23%	9%	25%	29.2–32.4°C
April	86%	15%	5%	13%	27.6–30.2°C
May	87%	13%	4%	11%	25.0–27.4°C
June	83%	11%	4%	8%	22.2–25.1°C
July	84%	10%	3%	8%	22.0–24.5°C
August	90%	8%	2%	6%	23.5–26.3°C
September	91%	9%	3%	5%	26.0–29.0°C
October	85%	15%	5%	12%	27.9–31.7°C
November	82%	18%	7%	18%	29.7–33.0°C
December	77%	23%	9%	26%	30.5–33.8°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.

1940Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 86-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1960.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2151437
NOAA station: ASN00039083 · ROCKHAMPTON AERO
Station distance: 3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -23.38°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 38 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 ROCKHAMPTON AERO is what differs

Gracemere→Norman Gardens→Frenchville→Berserker→The Range→Park Avenue→

Or put two places side by side: Rockhampton vs Gracemere

Best time to visitRockhampton.

June

April

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Rockhampton runs +1.1°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Rockhampton.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Rockhampton runs +1.1°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.