Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Slade Point.

August leads for comfortable weather in Slade Point: typically 23°C by day, 14.4°C at night, with 30 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high23°C

Typical low14.4°C

Rain in August30 mm

Comfort

August

August · September · July

95climate match

Beach

October

October · November · September

93climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

87climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 13 against August’s 95 — 328 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

2330.5° / 23.9°

Feb

1330.1° / 23.8°

Mar

2929° / 22.7°

Apr

5827° / 20.5°

May

8024.4° / 17.5°

Jun

8722.2° / 14.9°

Jul

8921.7° / 13.7°

Aug

9523° / 14.4°

Sep

9025.9° / 17.2°

Oct

7728.1° / 19.9°

Nov

5829.7° / 21.9°

Dec

3930.7° / 23.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Slade Point — 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	30.5°C	23.9°C	263 mm	11.2	28.2°C	13 h 17	23	Strong coverage
February	30.1°C	23.8°C	328 mm	14	28.3°C	12 h 49	13	Strong coverage
March	29°C	22.7°C	261 mm	12.9	27.6°C	12 h 16	29	Strong coverage
April	27°C	20.5°C	142 mm	11.6	26.2°C	11 h 38	58	Strong coverage
May	24.4°C	17.5°C	92 mm	9.9	24.3°C	11 h 08	80	Strong coverage
June	22.2°C	14.9°C	57 mm	7.5	22.2°C	10 h 51	87	Strong coverage
July	21.7°C	13.7°C	36 mm	4.3	21.0°C	10 h 58	89	Strong coverage
August	23°C	14.4°C	30 mm	3.3	21.1°C	11 h 24	95	Strong coverage
September	25.9°C	17.2°C	18 mm	2.5	22.8°C	12 h 00	90	Strong coverage
October	28.1°C	19.9°C	30 mm	4.1	24.7°C	12 h 37	77	Strong coverage
November	29.7°C	21.9°C	93 mm	6.1	26.3°C	13 h 09	58	Strong coverage
December	30.7°C	23.3°C	167 mm	8.9	27.6°C	13 h 24	39	Strong coverage

What has changed

Slade Point runs +1.0°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

+1.0

Mar

+1.3

Apr

+0.7

May

+0.4

Jun

+0.7

Jul

+0.9

Aug

+1.1

Sep

+1.1

Oct

+1.5

Nov

+1.5

Dec

+1.3

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 23.5°C.

Records at MACKAY M.O, 1959–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	37.6°C3 Jan 2018	17.2°C28 Jan 1988	286 mm5 Jan 1996	1034 mm1974 · driest 15 mm in 1985	67
February	38.7°C5 Feb 1990	17.8°C14 Feb 1972	356 mm15 Feb 2008	1071 mm1968 · driest 29 mm in 1983	67
March	35.0°C3 Mar 2025	13.1°C31 Mar 1970	389 mm26 Mar 1963	949 mm2011 · driest 36 mm in 1991	67
April	33.8°C2 Apr 1988	11.2°C29 Apr 2017	125 mm4 Apr 1989	521 mm1989 · driest 9 mm in 1974	67
May	30.3°C10 May 2016	7.1°C19 May 1960	178 mm21 May 1983	546 mm1983 · driest 3 mm in 2016	67
June	30.5°C17 Jun 2002	4.6°C27 Jun 1960	110 mm7 Jun 1967	392 mm1967 · driest 2 mm in 1968	67
July	29.7°C14 Jul 1995	3.8°C19 Jul 1965	170 mm5 Jul 1988	269 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 2007	67
August	30.6°C18 Aug 2018	5.0°C14 Aug 1960	99 mm30 Aug 1998	208 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2008	66
September	32.9°C15 Sep 2003	7.9°C4 Sep 1985	42 mm30 Sep 2010	115 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1980	66
October	35.4°C30 Oct 2003	10.6°C2 Oct 1982	103 mm17 Oct 1964	152 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 1982	67
November	38.2°C26 Nov 2018	14.9°C5 Nov 1960	326 mm17 Nov 2000	591 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1968	67
December	39.4°C16 Dec 1964	15.3°C11 Dec 1964	314 mm29 Dec 1990	1159 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 2005	67

Typical days per month at MACKAY M.O, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	31	19	5
February	28	14	7
March	31	7	5
April	27	2	4
May	11	<1	3
June	2	0	1
July	2	0	<1
August	6	<1	<1
September	19	1	<1
October	30	7	<1
November	30	14	2
December	31	20	4

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 95); on 2011–2025 it is August (98). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in MACKAY M.O’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	61%	39%	18%	53%	28.9–31.7°C
February	50%	50%	23%	68%	28.6–30.9°C
March	57%	44%	18%	58%	27.7–30.0°C
April	60%	40%	14%	53%	25.8–27.9°C
May	67%	32%	10%	41%	23.5–25.1°C
June	69%	21%	5%	22%	21.1–22.9°C
July	68%	15%	3%	13%	20.4–22.5°C
August	83%	11%	2%	10%	21.6–23.9°C
September	91%	8%	1%	5%	24.4–26.5°C
October	87%	13%	3%	11%	26.5–29.3°C
November	79%	21%	7%	23%	28.3–30.8°C
December	70%	30%	13%	40%	28.9–31.8°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.

1960Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 66-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1961.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2207295
NOAA station: ASN00033119 · MACKAY M.O
Station distance: 4.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -21.07°, 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 MACKAY M.O is what differs

Andergrove→North Mackay→Beaconsfield→Bucasia→Rural View→Mount Pleasant→

Or put two places side by side: Slade Point vs Andergrove

Best time to visitSlade Point.