Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Ballarat.

February leads for comfortable weather in Ballarat: typically 25.8°C by day, 11.7°C at night, with 40 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortFebruary

Typical high25.8°C

Typical low11.7°C

Rain in February40 mm

Comfort

February

February · March · December

86climate match

Beach

February

February · January · March

62climate match

Outdoors

March

March · November · April

88climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 22 against February’s 86 — days reach only 10.6°C, 13° 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

8326.1° / 11.6°

Feb

8625.8° / 11.7°

Mar

8522.9° / 9.9°

Apr

6318.4° / 7.1°

May

4214.2° / 5.1°

Jun

2611.2° / 3.6°

Jul

2210.6° / 3°

Aug

2611.8° / 3.1°

Sep

3614.1° / 4.4°

Oct

5317.3° / 5.9°

Nov

6920.4° / 7.9°

Dec

8423.4° / 9.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Ballarat — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	26.1°C	11.6°C	46 mm	5.2	14 h 29	83	Strong coverage
February	25.8°C	11.7°C	40 mm	4.1	13 h 33	86	Strong coverage
March	22.9°C	9.9°C	32 mm	5.1	12 h 26	85	Strong coverage
April	18.4°C	7.1°C	42 mm	7.1	11 h 11	63	Strong coverage
May	14.2°C	5.1°C	50 mm	9.1	10 h 08	42	Strong coverage
June	11.2°C	3.6°C	60 mm	11.5	9 h 35	26	Strong coverage
July	10.6°C	3°C	61 mm	12.6	9 h 48	22	Strong coverage
August	11.8°C	3.1°C	65 mm	12.6	10 h 41	26	Strong coverage
September	14.1°C	4.4°C	69 mm	11.3	11 h 54	36	Strong coverage
October	17.3°C	5.9°C	54 mm	9.3	13 h 08	53	Strong coverage
November	20.4°C	7.9°C	54 mm	7.4	14 h 13	69	Strong coverage
December	23.4°C	9.5°C	45 mm	6.1	14 h 45	84	Strong coverage

What has changed

Ballarat runs +0.9°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

+1.8

Feb

+0.8

Mar

+0.9

Apr

+0.6

May

+0.4

Jun

+0.2

Jul

+0.7

Aug

+0.6

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+1.3

Nov

+1.2

Dec

+1.8

February daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 28.1°C.

Records at BALLARAT AERODROME, 1957–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	42.2°C27 Jan 2026	0.7°C3 Jan 2009	95 mm14 Jan 2011	206 mm2011 · driest 1 mm in 2009	70
February	44.1°C7 Feb 2009	-1.4°C3 Feb 1986	122 mm6 Feb 1973	240 mm1973 · driest 0 mm in 1983	70
March	37.9°C8 Mar 2016	-0.6°C25 Mar 1965	84 mm22 Mar 1968	132 mm1970 · driest 1 mm in 2024	70
April	32.2°C11 Apr 2018	-4.1°C21 Apr 1987	89 mm6 Apr 1989	136 mm1989 · driest 8 mm in 2008	70
May	26.1°C1 May 1988	-4.5°C21 May 1990	48 mm15 May 1974	173 mm1960 · driest 11 mm in 1990	70
June	21.6°C5 Jun 1957	-4.6°C13 Jun 1996	46 mm8 Jun 2023	170 mm1977 · driest 13 mm in 2006	70
July	19.1°C30 Jul 1975	-6.0°C21 Jul 1982	46 mm18 Jul 1990	122 mm1964 · driest 20 mm in 2001	70
August	23.0°C29 Aug 1982	-5.0°C8 Aug 1963	50 mm12 Aug 2010	161 mm2010 · driest 13 mm in 1982	69
September	27.9°C30 Sep 1961	-4.6°C1 Sep 2015	54 mm14 Sep 2016	178 mm2016 · driest 19 mm in 1972	69
October	33.4°C12 Oct 2006	-3.6°C22 Oct 2006	64 mm24 Oct 2000	205 mm2022 · driest 4 mm in 2015	69
November	37.3°C24 Nov 1982	-1.0°C1 Nov 1991	71 mm19 Nov 1978	131 mm1978 · driest 14 mm in 2002	69
December	43.5°C20 Dec 2019	-1.0°C5 Dec 1991	63 mm25 Dec 2023	138 mm1991 · driest 3 mm in 1972	69

Typical days per month at BALLARAT AERODROME, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	17	9	0	1
February	15	8	0	1
March	11	3	0	<1
April	2	<1	<1	1
May	0	0	2	1
June	0	0	4	2
July	0	0	5	2
August	0	0	5	1
September	<1	0	3	2
October	2	<1	1	2
November	7	2	<1	2
December	12	5	<1	1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was February (scoring 90); on 2011–2025 it is March (90). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in BALLARAT AERODROME’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	74%	16%	4%	13%	23.0–28.2°C
February	75%	16%	4%	15%	23.3–27.8°C
March	59%	19%	4%	20%	20.7–24.8°C
April	33%	27%	5%	33%	16.3–20.3°C
May	5%	35%	5%	48%	12.8–15.4°C
June	<1%	41%	5%	57%	10.2–12.0°C
July	0%	44%	5%	64%	9.4–11.3°C
August	<1%	45%	5%	65%	10.4–13.0°C
September	5%	41%	6%	58%	12.3–15.5°C
October	22%	35%	6%	47%	15.2–18.8°C
November	40%	29%	5%	35%	17.7–22.7°C
December	58%	23%	4%	22%	20.1–25.1°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 69-year average. Warmest: 2007. Coolest: 1986.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2177091
NOAA station: ASN00089002 · BALLARAT AERODROME
Station distance: 7.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -37.57°, 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.

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Ballarat runs +0.9°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Ballarat.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Ballarat runs +0.9°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.