Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Essendon.

March leads for comfortable weather in Essendon: typically 25°C by day, 13.5°C at night, with 34 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMarch

Typical high25°C

Typical low13.5°C

Rain in March34 mm

Comfort

March

March · February · January

92climate match

Beach

January

January · February · March

77climate match

Outdoors

April

April · October · May

90climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 45 against March’s 92 — days reach only 13.8°C, 10° 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

8627.6° / 15°

Feb

8926.7° / 14.9°

Mar

9225° / 13.5°

Apr

7821.1° / 10.6°

May

6117.2° / 8.5°

Jun

4814.4° / 6.5°

Jul

4513.8° / 6.2°

Aug

4815° / 6.5°

Sep

6117.7° / 7.7°

Oct

7320.7° / 9.3°

Nov

8423.4° / 11.6°

Dec

8525.7° / 13°

Monthly climate evidence for Essendon — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 14 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	27.6°C	15°C	38 mm	4.8	20.1°C	14 h 30	86	Good coverage
February	26.7°C	14.9°C	45 mm	4.2	20.7°C	13 h 34	89	Good coverage
March	25°C	13.5°C	34 mm	4.9	19.9°C	12 h 27	92	Good coverage
April	21.1°C	10.6°C	44 mm	6.4	17.7°C	11 h 10	78	Good coverage
May	17.2°C	8.5°C	38 mm	7.7	15.2°C	10 h 07	61	Good coverage
June	14.4°C	6.5°C	40 mm	7.9	13.0°C	9 h 34	48	Good coverage
July	13.8°C	6.2°C	38 mm	8.5	11.6°C	9 h 47	45	Good coverage
August	15°C	6.5°C	42 mm	9.7	11.1°C	10 h 41	48	Good coverage
September	17.7°C	7.7°C	43 mm	8	12.1°C	11 h 54	61	Good coverage
October	20.7°C	9.3°C	43 mm	7.6	14.3°C	13 h 08	73	Good coverage
November	23.4°C	11.6°C	62 mm	7.5	16.5°C	14 h 14	84	Good coverage
December	25.7°C	13°C	51 mm	6.6	18.5°C	14 h 46	85	Good coverage

Records at ESSENDON AIRPORT, 1939–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	45.8°C31 Jan 1968	5.7°C22 Jan 1940	113 mm29 Jan 1963	224 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 2009	56
February	47.3°C7 Feb 2009	5.3°C20 Feb 1963	118 mm3 Feb 2005	187 mm2005 · driest 1 mm in 1965	57
March	40.7°C11 Mar 1940	3.7°C26 Mar 2005	68 mm20 Mar 1970	154 mm1970 · driest 2 mm in 1948	57
April	35.2°C10 Apr 2005	0.6°C30 Apr 2009	57 mm22 Apr 1947	153 mm1960 · driest 7 mm in 2019	58
May	27.0°C1 May 2026	0.1°C24 May 2008	34 mm30 May 1969	101 mm1969 · driest 7 mm in 2005	58
June	22.6°C8 Jun 2005	-3.3°C17 Jun 1969	69 mm1 Jun 2013	115 mm2013 · driest 12 mm in 2006	58
July	21.9°C18 Jul 2013	-2.6°C4 Jul 1963	39 mm14 Jul 1963	96 mm1963 · driest 15 mm in 2018	57
August	24.4°C27 Aug 2007	-2.4°C29 Aug 2018	30 mm17 Aug 1961	92 mm1939 · driest 15 mm in 1944	56
September	30.3°C12 Sep 2009	-1.6°C17 Sep 1949	50 mm29 Sep 2011	113 mm1960 · driest 10 mm in 2023	56
October	36.4°C12 Oct 2006	-0.3°C9 Oct 1939	55 mm31 Oct 2010	137 mm2022 · driest 7 mm in 2006	56
November	41.5°C21 Nov 2019	2.2°C4 Nov 1970	61 mm7 Nov 1971	137 mm1971 · driest 8 mm in 1967	56
December	44.4°C20 Dec 2019	4.0°C3 Dec 1955	39 mm26 Dec 2011	150 mm2017 · driest 6 mm in 2019	56

Typical days per month at ESSENDON AIRPORT, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	18	10	0	1
February	16	8	0	1
March	14	6	0	<1
April	5	<1	0	1
May	<1	0	0	1
June	0	0	<1	<1
July	0	0	<1	<1
August	0	0	<1	<1
September	<1	<1	0	1
October	6	2	0	1
November	11	5	0	2
December	14	7	0	2

How often, not how much — every day in ESSENDON AIRPORT’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	77%	16%	5%	13%	24.0–28.7°C
February	77%	16%	4%	13%	23.6–28.3°C
March	69%	19%	3%	17%	22.5–26.3°C
April	43%	25%	6%	31%	18.6–22.4°C
May	13%	27%	4%	33%	14.9–18.2°C
June	<1%	27%	3%	30%	12.7–14.9°C
July	<1%	28%	2%	33%	12.1–14.4°C
August	3%	32%	3%	40%	13.4–15.9°C
September	19%	30%	4%	36%	15.5–18.5°C
October	39%	29%	6%	34%	17.4–21.8°C
November	50%	27%	6%	31%	20.1–24.0°C
December	65%	23%	5%	22%	23.0–26.7°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.

1940Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 53-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1949.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2167208
NOAA station: ASN00086038 · ESSENDON AIRPORT
Station distance: 2.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 17 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -37.75°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 14 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 ESSENDON AIRPORT is what differs

Coburg→Glenroy→Pascoe Vale→Moonee Ponds→Keilor East→Brunswick West→

Or put two places side by side: Essendon vs Coburg

Best time to visitEssendon.