Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Federal.

September leads for comfortable weather in Federal: typically 22.1°C by day, 15.3°C at night, with 48 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high22.1°C

Typical low15.3°C

Rain in September48 mm

Comfort

September

September · October · May

89climate match

Beach

January

January · November · December

67climate match

Outdoors

August

August · September · July

85climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 47 against September’s 89 — 193 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

5228° / 21.3°

Feb

4727.5° / 21.2°

Mar

5726.6° / 20.1°

Apr

6824.1° / 17.8°

May

7621.4° / 15.1°

Jun

5419.3° / 13.2°

Jul

6718.9° / 12.3°

Aug

7620.1° / 13.1°

Sep

8922.1° / 15.3°

Oct

8223.7° / 17°

Nov

7625.4° / 18.6°

Dec

6126.7° / 20.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Federal — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 17 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	28°C	21.3°C	154 mm	10.4	25.9°C	13 h 47	52	Good coverage
February	27.5°C	21.2°C	193 mm	12.2	26.3°C	13 h 08	47	Good coverage
March	26.6°C	20.1°C	155 mm	12.6	26.1°C	12 h 20	57	Good coverage
April	24.1°C	17.8°C	169 mm	11.9	25.2°C	11 h 27	68	Good coverage
May	21.4°C	15.1°C	102 mm	10.2	23.7°C	10 h 43	76	Good coverage
June	19.3°C	13.2°C	176 mm	11.5	22.3°C	10 h 20	54	Good coverage
July	18.9°C	12.3°C	86 mm	8.3	21.2°C	10 h 29	67	Good coverage
August	20.1°C	13.1°C	72 mm	5.5	20.7°C	11 h 06	76	Good coverage
September	22.1°C	15.3°C	48 mm	5.7	21.2°C	11 h 57	89	Good coverage
October	23.7°C	17°C	90 mm	8.8	22.3°C	12 h 50	82	Good coverage
November	25.4°C	18.6°C	94 mm	8.3	23.5°C	13 h 35	76	Good coverage
December	26.7°C	20.1°C	137 mm	10.7	24.7°C	13 h 57	61	Good coverage

Records at BYRON BAY (CAPE BYRON AWS), 2002–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	34.0°C11 Jan 2012	16.5°C10 Jan 2005	134 mm19 Jan 2006	444 mm2006 · driest 3 mm in 2019	24
February	34.0°C21 Feb 2004	16.0°C3 Feb 2004	275 mm7 Feb 2020	772 mm2020 · driest 26 mm in 2014	24
March	32.8°C12 Mar 2019	14.5°C28 Mar 2026	164 mm30 Mar 2022	629 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 2009	24
April	29.8°C12 Apr 2014	10.9°C29 Apr 2008	146 mm16 Apr 2006	396 mm2003 · driest 39 mm in 2020	23
May	26.9°C6 May 2015	9.0°C31 May 2019	90 mm2 May 2015	305 mm2026 · driest 10 mm in 2016	24
June	25.0°C3 Jun 2004	6.5°C11 Jun 2009	178 mm30 Jun 2005	367 mm2005 · driest 2 mm in 2023	24
July	27.1°C23 Jul 2016	7.1°C19 Jul 2007	91 mm1 Jul 2005	159 mm2013 · driest 10 mm in 2017	24
August	28.3°C24 Aug 2009	6.6°C12 Aug 2008	93 mm30 Aug 2006	303 mm2014 · driest 2 mm in 2017	23
September	32.0°C27 Sep 2003	9.7°C2 Sep 2012	75 mm28 Sep 2024	199 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 2017	23
October	35.9°C27 Oct 2025	9.5°C17 Oct 2010	205 mm4 Oct 2010	369 mm2010 · driest 9 mm in 2006	23
November	33.3°C12 Nov 2004	11.8°C17 Nov 2006	92 mm14 Nov 2005	231 mm2023 · driest 12 mm in 2019	22
December	34.8°C14 Dec 2004	13.9°C29 Dec 2004	97 mm1 Dec 2024	464 mm2010 · driest 25 mm in 2023	23

Typical days per month at BYRON BAY (CAPE BYRON AWS), 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	27	7	4
February	24	4	4
March	22	2	4
April	11	0	5
May	2	0	3
June	<1	0	4
July	<1	0	2
August	<1	0	2
September	3	<1	1
October	10	<1	2
November	17	<1	3
December	23	3	4

How often, not how much — every day in BYRON BAY (CAPE BYRON 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	65%	35%	13%	49%	27.1–28.9°C
February	58%	42%	17%	59%	26.3–28.6°C
March	56%	43%	17%	56%	25.3–27.6°C
April	58%	41%	16%	54%	23.2–25.0°C
May	49%	37%	12%	48%	20.6–22.2°C
June	26%	33%	11%	44%	18.6–20.2°C
July	27%	27%	9%	30%	18.2–19.9°C
August	48%	20%	6%	25%	19.3–21.3°C
September	69%	19%	5%	21%	21.1–23.2°C
October	68%	30%	8%	36%	22.9–24.6°C
November	70%	31%	11%	43%	24.6–26.2°C
December	66%	34%	13%	39%	25.7–27.8°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.

2003Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 21-year average. Warmest: 2019. Coolest: 2003.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2166814
NOAA station: ASN00058216 · BYRON BAY (CAPE BYRON AWS)
Station distance: 18 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 17 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -28.65°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 17 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 BYRON BAY (CAPE BYRON AWS) is what differs

Byron Bay→Suffolk Park→Bangalow→Ewingsdale→Goonengerry→Broken Head→

Or put two places side by side: Federal vs Byron Bay

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