Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Hordern Vale.

February leads for comfortable weather in Hordern Vale: typically 21.2°C by day, 14.8°C at night, with 41 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortFebruary

Typical high21.2°C

Typical low14.8°C

Rain in February41 mm

Comfort

February

February · January · March

87climate match

Beach

February

February · January · March

56climate match

Outdoors

December

December · January · February

85climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 29 against February’s 87 — days reach only 13°C, 11° below 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

8521.2° / 14.1°

Feb

8721.2° / 14.8°

Mar

7720° / 13.8°

Apr

6417.7° / 12.1°

May

4815.5° / 10.6°

Jun

3713.6° / 9°

Jul

2913° / 8.3°

Aug

3013.6° / 8.4°

Sep

4115° / 9.1°

Oct

5516.8° / 10°

Nov

6518.1° / 11.4°

Dec

7319.4° / 12.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Hordern Vale — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 15 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	21.2°C	14.1°C	46 mm	5.9	17.6°C	14 h 36	85	Strong coverage
February	21.2°C	14.8°C	41 mm	5.4	18.3°C	13 h 37	87	Strong coverage
March	20°C	13.8°C	55 mm	8.2	18.0°C	12 h 27	77	Strong coverage
April	17.7°C	12.1°C	63 mm	9.7	16.6°C	11 h 08	64	Strong coverage
May	15.5°C	10.6°C	85 mm	13	15.6°C	10 h 03	48	Strong coverage
June	13.6°C	9°C	95 mm	13.9	14.7°C	9 h 28	37	Strong coverage
July	13°C	8.3°C	112 mm	16.3	14.0°C	9 h 42	29	Strong coverage
August	13.6°C	8.4°C	119 mm	16	13.6°C	10 h 38	30	Strong coverage
September	15°C	9.1°C	94 mm	14.3	13.5°C	11 h 54	41	Strong coverage
October	16.8°C	10°C	73 mm	11	13.9°C	13 h 11	55	Strong coverage
November	18.1°C	11.4°C	61 mm	8.8	14.8°C	14 h 19	65	Strong coverage
December	19.4°C	12.6°C	53 mm	7.8	16.2°C	14 h 52	73	Strong coverage

What has changed

Hordern Vale runs +0.6°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

-0.1

Mar

+0.3

Apr

+0.4

May

+0.3

Jun

+0.4

Jul

+0.6

Aug

+0.7

Sep

+0.8

Oct

+0.7

Nov

+0.8

Dec

+1.0

February daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.8°C.

Records at CAPE OTWAY LIGHTHOUSE, 1864–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	41.7°C22 Jan 1875	0.6°C28 Jan 1885	92 mm25 Jan 1952	135 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 1878	162
February	40.6°C15 Feb 1919	-0.6°C3 Feb 1885	81 mm2 Feb 1990	155 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 1870	162
March	40.0°C7 Mar 1891	-1.1°C8 Mar 1866	93 mm28 Mar 1932	189 mm1932 · driest 8 mm in 2024	162
April	33.3°C3 Apr 1886	1.7°C24 Apr 1869	79 mm6 Apr 1992	190 mm1961 · driest 1 mm in 1923	163
May	27.8°C14 May 1904	1.7°C22 May 1963	47 mm29 May 1971	224 mm1968 · driest 15 mm in 1932	163
June	23.9°C16 Jun 1891	1.7°C30 Jun 1922	61 mm15 Jun 1898	211 mm1922 · driest 25 mm in 1930	163
July	21.8°C29 Jul 1975	0.0°C17 Jul 1966	63 mm1 Jul 2007	214 mm1958 · driest 36 mm in 1877	163
August	25.0°C20 Aug 1995	1.1°C11 Aug 1866	49 mm11 Aug 2010	218 mm2010 · driest 29 mm in 1914	162
September	31.0°C26 Sep 1987	-1.1°C9 Sep 1890	48 mm20 Sep 1934	189 mm1912 · driest 23 mm in 1897	162
October	34.2°C24 Oct 1914	-0.6°C6 Oct 1900	68 mm3 Oct 1886	225 mm1949 · driest 7 mm in 1914	162
November	38.9°C10 Nov 1882	1.4°C14 Nov 1866	90 mm30 Nov 1933	147 mm1953 · driest 9 mm in 1911	162
December	40.0°C27 Dec 1880	3.3°C15 Dec 1866	59 mm2 Dec 1987	154 mm1875 · driest 3 mm in 1897	161

Typical days per month at CAPE OTWAY LIGHTHOUSE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	5	3	2
February	5	2	1
March	4	2	2
April	2	<1	2
May	<1	0	2
June	0	0	3
July	0	0	4
August	0	0	4
September	<1	0	3
October	2	<1	2
November	4	1	2
December	4	2	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was February (scoring 89); on 2011–2025 it is January (91). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in CAPE OTWAY LIGHTHOUSE’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	42%	20%	4%	20%	19.0–23.6°C
February	46%	20%	4%	20%	19.7–23.7°C
March	34%	27%	5%	34%	18.5–22.4°C
April	20%	37%	7%	51%	16.0–19.7°C
May	7%	45%	9%	64%	14.2–17.0°C
June	<1%	50%	9%	71%	12.5–14.9°C
July	<1%	53%	10%	77%	12.1–14.1°C
August	2%	54%	10%	77%	12.6–15.2°C
September	9%	49%	8%	69%	13.6–16.8°C
October	18%	40%	8%	55%	15.1–19.1°C
November	22%	33%	6%	41%	16.3–20.3°C
December	28%	27%	5%	30%	17.7–21.9°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.

1865Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 144-year average. Warmest: 1898. Coolest: 1949.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2163154
NOAA station: ASN00090015 · CAPE OTWAY LIGHTHOUSE
Station distance: 8.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -38.78°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 15 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 CAPE OTWAY LIGHTHOUSE is what differs

Apollo Bay→Marengo→Johanna→Cape Otway→Glenaire→Wattle Hill→

Or put two places side by side: Hordern Vale vs Apollo Bay

Best time to visitHordern Vale.

February

February

December

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Hordern Vale runs +0.6°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Hordern Vale.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Hordern Vale runs +0.6°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.