Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Parkes.

April leads for comfortable weather in Parkes: typically 24.4°C by day, 10.5°C at night, with 28 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high24.4°C

Typical low10.5°C

Rain in April28 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · March

90climate match

Beach

March

March · February · January

79climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · April

89climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 43 against April’s 90 — days reach only 14.6°C, 9° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 3.9°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

5933.4° / 18.5°

Feb

6231.9° / 18.2°

Mar

8228.7° / 14.7°

Apr

9024.4° / 10.5°

May

6819.4° / 6.8°

Jun

4915.6° / 5.1°

Jul

4314.6° / 3.9°

Aug

5216.7° / 4.5°

Sep

6820.2° / 7.3°

Oct

8624.2° / 10.4°

Nov

7728.1° / 13.9°

Dec

6930.9° / 16°

Monthly climate evidence for Parkes — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	33.4°C	18.5°C	47 mm	5.3	14 h 07	59	Good coverage
February	31.9°C	18.2°C	61 mm	5.6	13 h 20	62	Good coverage
March	28.7°C	14.7°C	42 mm	4.4	12 h 23	82	Good coverage
April	24.4°C	10.5°C	28 mm	3.1	11 h 19	90	Good coverage
May	19.4°C	6.8°C	41 mm	5.1	10 h 26	68	Good coverage
June	15.6°C	5.1°C	49 mm	7	9 h 58	49	Good coverage
July	14.6°C	3.9°C	51 mm	7.1	10 h 09	43	Good coverage
August	16.7°C	4.5°C	49 mm	6.3	10 h 54	52	Good coverage
September	20.2°C	7.3°C	50 mm	6.5	11 h 56	68	Good coverage
October	24.2°C	10.4°C	54 mm	6	12 h 58	86	Good coverage
November	28.1°C	13.9°C	68 mm	6.7	13 h 53	77	Good coverage
December	30.9°C	16°C	63 mm	5.8	14 h 20	69	Good coverage

Records at PARKES (MACARTHUR STREET), 1957–2012
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	45.2°C15 Jan 2001	6.8°C12 Jan 2012	113 mm30 Jan 1971	252 mm1978 · driest 1 mm in 1965	56
February	45.5°C21 Feb 2004	6.0°C23 Feb 1993	101 mm19 Feb 1959	218 mm1959 · driest 1 mm in 1965	56
March	40.0°C19 Mar 2002	4.5°C29 Mar 2008	70 mm24 Mar 1982	161 mm2012 · driest 0 mm in 1995	56
April	35.4°C4 Apr 1986	0.5°C22 Apr 2006	69 mm2 Apr 1959	299 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 1967	56
May	27.8°C13 May 1957	-1.5°C16 May 2011	96 mm28 May 1977	205 mm1977 · driest 3 mm in 2005	56
June	26.7°C15 Jun 1965	-4.0°C15 Jun 2006	39 mm23 Jun 1998	105 mm1981 · driest 1 mm in 1972	56
July	23.3°C29 Jul 1975	-4.2°C13 Jul 1997	45 mm21 Jul 1959	133 mm1984 · driest 4 mm in 1970	56
August	27.8°C23 Aug 1995	-3.6°C9 Aug 1994	63 mm31 Aug 1996	114 mm1987 · driest 1 mm in 1982	55
September	34.0°C30 Sep 1980	-2.0°C6 Sep 1995	55 mm2 Sep 1997	128 mm2005 · driest 2 mm in 1957	55
October	37.7°C21 Oct 1988	1.0°C8 Oct 2009	79 mm28 Oct 1973	162 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 2002	55
November	44.0°C30 Nov 2004	3.0°C3 Nov 2003	127 mm8 Nov 2005	186 mm1961 · driest 0 mm in 1975	55
December	42.5°C18 Dec 1990	6.2°C20 Dec 2010	51 mm9 Dec 1988	213 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1979	55

Typical days per month at PARKES (MACARTHUR STREET), 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	30	25	0	2
February	26	20	0	2
March	26	12	0	1
April	15	2	0	<1
May	2	0	<1	1
June	0	0	3	2
July	0	0	6	2
August	<1	0	4	2
September	4	<1	<1	2
October	14	4	0	2
November	22	11	0	2
December	28	19	0	2

How often, not how much — every day in PARKES (MACARTHUR STREET)’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	83%	15%	6%	12%	29.4–35.3°C
February	82%	16%	5%	15%	28.9–33.8°C
March	84%	15%	5%	14%	26.9–30.0°C
April	76%	15%	4%	13%	22.1–25.9°C
May	38%	18%	5%	20%	17.1–20.4°C
June	6%	24%	5%	26%	13.7–16.7°C
July	2%	24%	5%	27%	12.5–15.4°C
August	13%	23%	5%	23%	14.1–18.5°C
September	38%	20%	4%	20%	17.0–21.8°C
October	66%	20%	5%	18%	20.9–26.0°C
November	77%	17%	5%	14%	24.7–30.1°C
December	82%	16%	6%	13%	28.2–33.0°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.

1957Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 54-year average. Warmest: 2009. Coolest: 1992.2011

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2153778
NOAA station: ASN00065026 · PARKES (MACARTHUR STREET)
Station distance: 1.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -33.14°, 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 PARKES (MACARTHUR STREET) is what differs

Goonumbla→Tichborne→Gunningbland→Nelungaloo→Parkesborough→Nanardine→

Or put two places side by side: Parkes vs Goonumbla

Best time to visitParkes.

April

March

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Parkes.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.