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Best time to visit
Canberra.

March leads for comfortable weather in Canberra: typically 25.1°C by day, 9.8°C at night, with 42 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMarch

Typical high25.1°C

Typical low9.8°C

Rain in March42 mm

Comfort

March

March · November · February

84climate match

Beach

January

January · February · December

69climate match

Outdoors

April

April · March · October

87climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 30 against March’s 84 — days reach only 12.4°C, 12° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -0.9°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

7229.5° / 13.1°

Feb

7528° / 12.5°

Mar

8425.1° / 9.8°

Apr

7121° / 5.3°

May

5116.6° / 1.9°

Jun

3213.2° / 0.3°

Jul

3012.4° / -0.9°

Aug

3413.9° / -0.2°

Sep

4917.4° / 2.3°

Oct

6520.9° / 5.2°

Nov

7724.2° / 8.3°

Dec

7527.1° / 11°

Monthly climate evidence for Canberra — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	29.5°C	13.1°C	61 mm	5.8	14 h 17	72	Strong coverage
February	28°C	12.5°C	70 mm	6.1	13 h 26	75	Good coverage
March	25.1°C	9.8°C	42 mm	4.9	12 h 25	84	Strong coverage
April	21°C	5.3°C	33 mm	4.3	11 h 15	71	Strong coverage
May	16.6°C	1.9°C	34 mm	4.4	10 h 18	51	Strong coverage
June	13.2°C	0.3°C	54 mm	6.4	9 h 47	32	Strong coverage
July	12.4°C	-0.9°C	40 mm	5.9	9 h 59	30	Strong coverage
August	13.9°C	-0.2°C	49 mm	6.8	10 h 48	34	Strong coverage
September	17.4°C	2.3°C	59 mm	6.7	11 h 55	49	Good coverage
October	20.9°C	5.2°C	58 mm	7.2	13 h 03	65	Strong coverage
November	24.2°C	8.3°C	74 mm	7.9	14 h 02	77	Strong coverage
December	27.1°C	11°C	68 mm	6.4	14 h 31	75	Good coverage

What has changed

Canberra runs +1.9°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

+3.0

Feb

+1.6

Mar

+1.0

Apr

+1.3

May

+1.5

Jun

+1.2

Jul

+1.7

Aug

+1.7

Sep

+2.7

Oct

+2.7

Nov

+2.8

Dec

+2.1

March daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 28.2°C.

Records at CANBERRA FORESTRY, 1948–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	44.0°C4 Jan 2020	1.6°C12 Jan 2012	94 mm20 Jan 1995	218 mm1995 · driest 2 mm in 1965	71
February	42.7°C1 Feb 2020	0.0°C8 Feb 2002	78 mm4 Feb 2002	216 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 1978	71
March	37.5°C13 Mar 1998	-1.5°C31 Mar 1995	75 mm21 Mar 1978	323 mm1950 · driest 0 mm in 1954	71
April	31.8°C11 Apr 2018	-3.7°C25 Apr 1999	79 mm16 Apr 1969	196 mm1974 · driest 1 mm in 1997	71
May	24.5°C3 May 2018	-6.5°C16 May 2011	99 mm3 May 1948	165 mm1968 · driest 1 mm in 1976	71
June	20.4°C3 Jun 1957	-7.8°C22 Jun 1956	65 mm5 Jun 2016	146 mm2016 · driest 3 mm in 2017	71
July	19.7°C29 Jul 1975	-8.7°C1 Jul 2017	47 mm8 Jul 2005	129 mm1960 · driest 5 mm in 2019	71
August	22.4°C30 Aug 1977	-7.6°C5 Aug 2014	53 mm28 Aug 1974	142 mm1974 · driest 2 mm in 1994	71
September	30.2°C23 Sep 2017	-6.9°C16 Sep 2024	58 mm16 Sep 2013	153 mm1978 · driest 3 mm in 1994	70
October	32.1°C13 Oct 2006	-3.4°C18 Oct 2013	132 mm21 Oct 1959	193 mm2022 · driest 1 mm in 2021	70
November	39.0°C23 Nov 2014	-1.5°C4 Nov 2013	70 mm6 Nov 1989	152 mm1961 · driest 10 mm in 2002	70
December	41.1°C21 Dec 2019	0.9°C9 Dec 2022	87 mm2 Dec 2010	181 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1979	70

Typical days per month at CANBERRA FORESTRY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	22	13	0	2
February	19	9	0	2
March	14	4	0	1
April	3	<1	1	<1
May	0	0	7	<1
June	0	0	9	1
July	0	0	12	<1
August	0	0	10	1
September	<1	0	4	2
October	5	<1	1	2
November	12	4	<1	2
December	18	8	0	2

How often, not how much — every day in CANBERRA FORESTRY’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	78%	19%	6%	19%	25.4–31.5°C
February	78%	20%	7%	19%	25.0–29.9°C
March	76%	17%	5%	17%	22.8–27.1°C
April	49%	17%	5%	16%	18.6–22.4°C
May	8%	17%	5%	15%	13.9–17.3°C
June	<1%	20%	4%	19%	11.4–13.9°C
July	0%	20%	4%	19%	10.3–13.2°C
August	1%	24%	5%	25%	12.0–14.9°C
September	15%	23%	6%	25%	15.0–18.5°C
October	38%	25%	7%	29%	17.6–22.7°C
November	60%	24%	7%	25%	20.5–26.2°C
December	77%	20%	6%	16%	23.8–29.2°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.

1948Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 44-year average. Warmest: 1979. Coolest: 1956.2020

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2172517
NOAA station: ASN00070015 · CANBERRA FORESTRY
Station distance: 3.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 18 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -35.28°, 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 CANBERRA FORESTRY is what differs

Ngunnawal→Harrison→Bruce→Kaleen→Dunlop→Nicholls→

Or put two places side by side: Canberra vs Ngunnawal

Best time to visitCanberra.