Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
South Mission Beach.

July leads for comfortable weather in South Mission Beach: typically 24.7°C by day, 15.1°C at night, with 37 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high24.7°C

Typical low15.1°C

Rain in July37 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

95climate match

Beach

October

October · September · June

88climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

73climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 95 — 429 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

531.4° / 23.8°

Feb

531.3° / 23.9°

Mar

930.7° / 22.9°

Apr

4429° / 21.1°

May

6926.9° / 18.8°

Jun

9025.2° / 16.4°

Jul

9524.7° / 15.1°

Aug

9325.5° / 15.6°

Sep

8027.4° / 17.7°

Oct

6928.6° / 20.1°

Nov

4930° / 22°

Dec

2931.1° / 23.4°

Monthly climate evidence for South Mission Beach — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 9 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	31.4°C	23.8°C	429 mm	16.7	29.0°C	13 h 06	5	Strong coverage
February	31.3°C	23.9°C	491 mm	15.9	29.1°C	12 h 43	5	Strong coverage
March	30.7°C	22.9°C	347 mm	14.9	28.5°C	12 h 15	9	Strong coverage
April	29°C	21.1°C	167 mm	13.9	27.2°C	11 h 43	44	Strong coverage
May	26.9°C	18.8°C	91 mm	10.2	25.5°C	11 h 17	69	Strong coverage
June	25.2°C	16.4°C	36 mm	6.4	23.8°C	11 h 04	90	Strong coverage
July	24.7°C	15.1°C	37 mm	5.8	22.9°C	11 h 09	95	Strong coverage
August	25.5°C	15.6°C	24 mm	4.7	23.0°C	11 h 31	93	Strong coverage
September	27.4°C	17.7°C	52 mm	4.5	24.4°C	12 h 01	80	Strong coverage
October	28.6°C	20.1°C	65 mm	6.1	26.0°C	12 h 32	69	Strong coverage
November	30°C	22°C	126 mm	9	27.4°C	12 h 59	49	Strong coverage
December	31.1°C	23.4°C	208 mm	12	28.5°C	13 h 12	29	Strong coverage

What has changed

South Mission Beach 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

-1.0

Feb

-0.7

Mar

-0.6

Apr

-0.6

May

-0.9

Jun

-1.0

Jul

-1.0

Aug

-1.1

Sep

-1.0

Oct

-1.4

Nov

-0.9

Dec

-1.0

July daytime highs, 2011–2023. Last recorded: 24.5°C.

Records at CARDWELL MARINE PDE, 1957–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	41.7°C29 Jan 1967	17.2°C15 Jan 1961	400 mm31 Jan 1994	1836 mm1981 · driest 35 mm in 1985	70
February	41.8°C21 Feb 2019	16.8°C6 Feb 1990	326 mm2 Feb 2025	1225 mm1991 · driest 57 mm in 2005	69
March	38.7°C2 Mar 1981	14.4°C31 Mar 1970	368 mm9 Mar 1983	1064 mm1983 · driest 59 mm in 1993	68
April	34.7°C1 Apr 1977	11.0°C15 Apr 1994	307 mm13 Apr 2014	561 mm1990 · driest 15 mm in 2008	68
May	31.7°C5 May 1967	6.1°C19 May 1960	206 mm18 May 1963	347 mm1977 · driest 1 mm in 2001	67
June	31.1°C13 Jun 1962	3.3°C27 Jun 1960	115 mm6 Jun 1990	155 mm1967 · driest 1 mm in 1961	66
July	30.2°C28 Jul 1974	2.8°C15 Jul 1963	86 mm18 Jul 2016	191 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1963	68
August	32.5°C18 Aug 1981	4.2°C4 Aug 1957	62 mm31 Aug 1998	112 mm1966 · driest 0 mm in 1976	67
September	36.0°C7 Sep 1976	6.5°C24 Sep 1969	174 mm2 Sep 2006	336 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 1967	66
October	36.6°C19 Oct 1971	9.2°C1 Oct 1982	185 mm19 Oct 2017	321 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1972	66
November	40.0°C28 Nov 2018	14.4°C21 Nov 1986	173 mm20 Nov 1988	653 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 1990	69
December	41.8°C30 Dec 1984	15.1°C11 Dec 1964	335 mm7 Dec 1964	1052 mm2018 · driest 26 mm in 1984	69

Typical days per month at CARDWELL MARINE PDE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	30	25	9
February	27	21	10
March	29	21	7
April	28	8	4
May	26	<1	3
June	17	0	<1
July	13	0	<1
August	20	<1	<1
September	27	2	1
October	29	5	2
November	28	13	3
December	29	23	5

How often, not how much — every day in CARDWELL MARINE PDE’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	48%	48%	28%	64%	30.4–32.9°C
February	41%	55%	32%	71%	30.2–32.5°C
March	48%	50%	26%	65%	29.7–31.9°C
April	51%	44%	17%	58%	28.3–30.4°C
May	64%	32%	9%	40%	26.1–28.1°C
June	79%	21%	4%	23%	24.3–26.5°C
July	83%	16%	2%	15%	23.8–26.1°C
August	85%	15%	2%	15%	24.9–27.3°C
September	85%	15%	3%	15%	26.9–28.8°C
October	80%	18%	5%	21%	28.2–30.3°C
November	70%	26%	10%	33%	29.3–31.8°C
December	64%	34%	15%	43%	30.2–32.8°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.

1958Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 61-year average. Warmest: 1973. Coolest: 1965.2022

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2206564
NOAA station: ASN00032004 · CARDWELL MARINE PDE
Station distance: 34.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -17.95°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 9 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 CARDWELL MARINE PDE is what differs

Cardwell→Abergowrie→Tully Heads→Murray Upper→Carruchan→Ellerbeck→

Or put two places side by side: South Mission Beach vs Cardwell

Best time to visitSouth Mission Beach.

July

October

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

South Mission Beach runs -0.9°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
South Mission Beach.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

South Mission Beach runs -0.9°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.