Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Petford.

June leads for comfortable weather in Petford: typically 23.8°C by day, 14.3°C at night, with 14 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJune

Typical high23.8°C

Typical low14.3°C

Rain in June14 mm

Comfort

June

June · July · August

98climate match

Beach

October

October · November · April

87climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

84climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 31 against June’s 98 — 255 mm of rain falls.

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

3530.1° / 20.4°

Feb

3129.3° / 20.6°

Mar

5128.3° / 19.7°

Apr

7926.9° / 18.2°

May

9225.3° / 16.1°

Jun

9823.8° / 14.3°

Jul

9523.5° / 13°

Aug

9424.8° / 13.2°

Sep

8827.5° / 14.8°

Oct

7929.4° / 16.7°

Nov

6830.6° / 18.4°

Dec

5130.9° / 19.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Petford — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	30.1°C	20.4°C	218 mm	13.3	13 h 04	35	Strong coverage
February	29.3°C	20.6°C	255 mm	14.9	12 h 41	31	Strong coverage
March	28.3°C	19.7°C	171 mm	11.2	12 h 14	51	Strong coverage
April	26.9°C	18.2°C	47 mm	7.6	11 h 44	79	Strong coverage
May	25.3°C	16.1°C	20 mm	4.9	11 h 19	92	Strong coverage
June	23.8°C	14.3°C	14 mm	3.5	11 h 06	98	Strong coverage
July	23.5°C	13°C	14 mm	3	11 h 11	95	Strong coverage
August	24.8°C	13.2°C	10 mm	2.4	11 h 32	94	Strong coverage
September	27.5°C	14.8°C	8 mm	1.6	12 h 01	88	Strong coverage
October	29.4°C	16.7°C	22 mm	3	12 h 31	79	Strong coverage
November	30.6°C	18.4°C	54 mm	4.5	12 h 57	68	Strong coverage
December	30.9°C	19.9°C	117 mm	8.9	13 h 10	51	Strong coverage

What has changed

Petford runs +0.7°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

+0.5

Feb

+0.6

Mar

+1.1

Apr

+1.3

May

+0.8

Jun

+1.0

Jul

+0.9

Aug

+0.3

Sep

+0.5

Oct

+0.8

Nov

+0.4

Dec

+0.6

June daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.3°C.

Records at WALKAMIN RESEARCH STATION, 1968–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	39.8°C6 Jan 1994	14.1°C9 Jan 1997	134 mm3 Jan 1979	817 mm1979 · driest 23 mm in 1988	58
February	36.4°C12 Feb 1990	14.5°C5 Feb 1990	285 mm28 Feb 2000	894 mm2000 · driest 32 mm in 1990	58
March	35.0°C7 Mar 2022	13.8°C27 Mar 1977	242 mm7 Mar 1977	649 mm1972 · driest 7 mm in 1993	58
April	32.6°C5 Apr 2003	9.9°C15 Apr 1994	113 mm20 Apr 2006	219 mm2006 · driest 2 mm in 2008	58
May	31.5°C26 May 2010	5.6°C26 May 1974	64 mm16 May 1977	115 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 2001	58
June	32.0°C17 Jun 2002	3.4°C21 Jun 1975	45 mm6 Jun 1990	54 mm1989 · driest 1 mm in 2009	58
July	31.7°C14 Jul 1995	2.6°C4 Jul 1984	30 mm6 Jul 2022	67 mm2022 · driest 1 mm in 1972	59
August	33.9°C29 Aug 1968	3.6°C19 Aug 1989	34 mm2 Aug 2005	70 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 2001	58
September	35.8°C30 Sep 1996	7.7°C4 Sep 1985	31 mm8 Sep 1975	50 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 2011	58
October	38.8°C12 Oct 2011	8.9°C12 Oct 1982	56 mm21 Oct 1985	107 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 2002	58
November	39.8°C19 Nov 1990	10.3°C15 Nov 2025	105 mm26 Nov 2008	258 mm1981 · driest 0 mm in 2019	58
December	38.3°C25 Dec 2019	12.6°C5 Dec 1998	178 mm17 Dec 2023	733 mm2023 · driest 2 mm in 2013	58

Typical days per month at WALKAMIN RESEARCH STATION, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	29	15	6
February	27	11	7
March	28	7	4
April	25	2	<1
May	16	<1	<1
June	8	<1	<1
July	7	<1	<1
August	13	1	<1
September	24	5	<1
October	28	12	<1
November	28	16	2
December	29	20	4

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 95); on 2011–2025 it is June (98). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in WALKAMIN RESEARCH STATION’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	55%	44%	22%	60%	28.7–31.6°C
February	48%	52%	23%	70%	27.8–30.4°C
March	59%	41%	17%	50%	27.2–29.5°C
April	71%	28%	5%	32%	25.5–28.2°C
May	82%	18%	2%	17%	24.2–26.2°C
June	85%	13%	1%	10%	22.4–25.3°C
July	88%	9%	<1%	6%	22.3–24.5°C
August	91%	8%	<1%	6%	23.4–26.5°C
September	93%	7%	<1%	3%	25.7–28.4°C
October	90%	10%	2%	7%	28.1–31.0°C
November	82%	18%	7%	22%	29.2–32.0°C
December	68%	32%	13%	42%	29.5–32.3°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.

1969Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 52-year average. Warmest: 2010. Coolest: 1982.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2153364
NOAA station: ASN00031108 · WALKAMIN RESEARCH STATION
Station distance: 57.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -17.35°, 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 WALKAMIN RESEARCH STATION is what differs

Tolga→Dimbulah→Walkamin→Mutchilba→Chillagoe→Almaden→

Or put two places side by side: Petford vs Tolga

Best time to visitPetford.