Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Paterson.

April leads for comfortable weather in Paterson: typically 24.5°C by day, 12.5°C at night, with 84 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high24.5°C

Typical low12.5°C

Rain in April84 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · September

83climate match

Beach

January

January · December · February

73climate match

Outdoors

August

August · May · September

92climate match

The weakest month is June, scoring 56 against April’s 83 — days reach only 18°C, 6° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 7.8°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

6130.6° / 18°

Feb

6029.5° / 17.8°

Mar

7127.4° / 15.9°

Apr

8324.5° / 12.5°

May

7421° / 9.6°

Jun

5618° / 7.8°

Jul

6017.8° / 6.5°

Aug

7019.8° / 6.7°

Sep

8123° / 9.2°

Oct

8225.7° / 11.7°

Nov

7727.3° / 14.4°

Dec

6829.1° / 16.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Paterson — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 39 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	30.6°C	18°C	86 mm	7.7	22.6°C	14 h 04	61	Strong coverage
February	29.5°C	17.8°C	117 mm	8.8	23.1°C	13 h 18	60	Strong coverage
March	27.4°C	15.9°C	114 mm	8.8	23.0°C	12 h 23	71	Strong coverage
April	24.5°C	12.5°C	84 mm	7.3	22.3°C	11 h 20	83	Strong coverage
May	21°C	9.6°C	61 mm	6.4	21.1°C	10 h 28	74	Strong coverage
June	18°C	7.8°C	84 mm	7.7	19.8°C	10 h 01	56	Strong coverage
July	17.8°C	6.5°C	41 mm	6.2	18.8°C	10 h 12	60	Strong coverage
August	19.8°C	6.7°C	35 mm	4.6	18.3°C	10 h 56	70	Strong coverage
September	23°C	9.2°C	52 mm	5.9	18.4°C	11 h 56	81	Strong coverage
October	25.7°C	11.7°C	60 mm	6.5	19.1°C	12 h 57	82	Strong coverage
November	27.3°C	14.4°C	80 mm	8.6	20.1°C	13 h 51	77	Strong coverage
December	29.1°C	16.4°C	92 mm	8.3	21.2°C	14 h 17	68	Strong coverage

What has changed

Paterson 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

+1.7

Feb

+1.4

Mar

+0.9

Apr

+0.6

May

+0.4

Jun

+0.4

Jul

+1.0

Aug

+1.2

Sep

+1.8

Oct

+1.7

Nov

+1.8

Dec

+0.6

April daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.0°C.

Records at PATERSON (TOCAL AWS), 1967–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	46.0°C4 Jan 2020	8.6°C14 Jan 1997	179 mm6 Jan 2016	449 mm2016 · driest 3 mm in 1985	57
February	47.0°C11 Feb 2017	9.4°C18 Feb 1998	194 mm3 Feb 1990	487 mm1990 · driest 8 mm in 1991	56
March	41.2°C9 Mar 1983	7.7°C31 Mar 2008	140 mm4 Mar 1977	350 mm2000 · driest 10 mm in 1981	56
April	37.3°C5 Apr 1986	1.3°C23 Apr 2006	243 mm21 Apr 2015	528 mm2015 · driest 2 mm in 1980	56
May	29.5°C10 May 1973	0.5°C29 May 1987	82 mm16 May 1977	226 mm1977 · driest 3 mm in 2018	56
June	26.1°C30 Jun 1970	-0.3°C21 Jun 2023	200 mm9 Jun 2007	413 mm2007 · driest 3 mm in 2001	57
July	27.3°C24 Jul 1990	-4.7°C16 Jul 1970	119 mm4 Jul 2022	297 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 1970	57
August	30.4°C21 Aug 1995	-1.5°C4 Aug 1994	92 mm3 Aug 2025	196 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 1995	56
September	36.2°C23 Sep 2003	-0.6°C2 Sep 1971	96 mm27 Sep 2018	169 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 1980	56
October	40.1°C21 Oct 1988	2.2°C13 Oct 1987	96 mm13 Oct 1985	288 mm1985 · driest 4 mm in 1988	56
November	43.9°C23 Nov 2014	5.3°C10 Nov 1971	171 mm18 Nov 2013	336 mm2013 · driest 11 mm in 1980	56
December	45.0°C21 Dec 2019	6.2°C7 Dec 1967	122 mm11 Dec 2002	223 mm1992 · driest 2 mm in 2019	57

Typical days per month at PATERSON (TOCAL AWS), 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	26	16	2
February	23	11	3
March	23	7	3
April	12	2	2
May	2	0	2
June	<1	0	2
July	<1	0	1
August	2	<1	1
September	9	2	2
October	16	6	2
November	19	9	3
December	23	13	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 88); on 2011–2025 it is September (85). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in PATERSON (TOCAL AWS)’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	72%	28%	10%	34%	27.3–32.4°C
February	68%	32%	11%	39%	26.9–31.5°C
March	69%	31%	12%	38%	25.5–29.3°C
April	72%	25%	8%	28%	23.0–26.0°C
May	52%	24%	7%	27%	19.7–21.8°C
June	14%	25%	7%	27%	16.8–19.0°C
July	13%	20%	4%	20%	16.4–18.8°C
August	37%	17%	4%	15%	18.0–21.0°C
September	63%	19%	5%	20%	20.5–24.5°C
October	70%	24%	6%	28%	23.4–27.9°C
November	69%	29%	9%	34%	24.5–29.8°C
December	75%	25%	8%	27%	27.1–32.0°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.

1972Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 51-year average. Warmest: 2019. Coolest: 1972.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2153701
NOAA station: ASN00061250 · PATERSON (TOCAL AWS)
Station distance: 3.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -32.61°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 39 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 PATERSON (TOCAL AWS) is what differs

Clarence Town→Wallalong→Seaham→Vacy→Brandy Hill→Duns Creek→

Or put two places side by side: Paterson vs Clarence Town

Best time to visitPaterson.