Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Clifton Beach.

July leads for comfortable weather in Clifton Beach: typically 26.2°C by day, 17.2°C at night, with 34 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high26.2°C

Typical low17.2°C

Rain in July34 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

86climate match

Beach

September

September · October · August

92climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

65climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 86 — 376 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

531.7° / 24°

Feb

531.5° / 24.1°

Mar

930.9° / 23.3°

Apr

3829.6° / 22°

May

6428° / 20.1°

Jun

8126.6° / 18.5°

Jul

8626.2° / 17.2°

Aug

8427° / 17.3°

Sep

7628.7° / 18.8°

Oct

6429.9° / 20.9°

Nov

5131.1° / 22.5°

Dec

3331.8° / 23.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Clifton Beach — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 16 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	31.7°C	24°C	376 mm	15.7	29.0°C	13 h 01	5	Strong coverage
February	31.5°C	24.1°C	482 mm	16	29.1°C	12 h 40	5	Strong coverage
March	30.9°C	23.3°C	344 mm	14.7	28.5°C	12 h 14	9	Strong coverage
April	29.6°C	22°C	180 mm	14.7	27.3°C	11 h 44	38	Strong coverage
May	28°C	20.1°C	83 mm	10.2	25.6°C	11 h 21	64	Strong coverage
June	26.6°C	18.5°C	42 mm	7	24.2°C	11 h 08	81	Strong coverage
July	26.2°C	17.2°C	34 mm	5.5	23.4°C	11 h 13	86	Strong coverage
August	27°C	17.3°C	27 mm	4.6	23.5°C	11 h 33	84	Strong coverage
September	28.7°C	18.8°C	28 mm	4.2	24.7°C	12 h 01	76	Strong coverage
October	29.9°C	20.9°C	57 mm	6.2	26.0°C	12 h 30	64	Strong coverage
November	31.1°C	22.5°C	86 mm	8.3	27.4°C	12 h 55	51	Strong coverage
December	31.8°C	23.7°C	170 mm	11.1	28.5°C	13 h 07	33	Strong coverage

What has changed

Clifton 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

+0.4

Feb

+0.7

Mar

+0.8

Apr

+1.0

May

+0.7

Jun

+0.9

Jul

+0.9

Aug

+0.9

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+1.0

Nov

+1.1

Dec

+0.9

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 28.3°C.

Records at CAIRNS AERO, 1942–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	40.4°C29 Jan 1967	18.2°C10 Jan 1943	368 mm8 Jan 1972	1417 mm1981 · driest 86 mm in 1967	84
February	40.0°C15 Feb 2020	17.9°C1 Feb 1975	286 mm4 Feb 1967	1287 mm2000 · driest 30 mm in 1990	84
March	37.7°C18 Mar 1993	17.7°C31 Mar 2009	403 mm12 Mar 1967	1128 mm1945 · driest 28 mm in 1993	84
April	36.8°C2 Apr 1988	13.0°C15 Apr 1994	204 mm21 Apr 2021	845 mm2021 · driest 3 mm in 2018	84
May	31.3°C2 May 2016	10.1°C26 May 1953	118 mm22 May 2016	322 mm1964 · driest 3 mm in 2001	84
June	30.8°C17 Jun 2002	6.2°C23 Jun 1946	70 mm6 Jun 1967	178 mm2015 · driest 1 mm in 2018	84
July	30.1°C18 Jul 1964	7.3°C19 Jul 1965	75 mm5 Jul 2022	145 mm1969 · driest 0 mm in 1958	84
August	31.5°C30 Aug 2025	7.8°C7 Aug 1953	63 mm6 Aug 1947	140 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 1990	83
September	33.9°C7 Sep 1976	9.3°C5 Sep 2019	80 mm27 Sep 1988	148 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 1948	83
October	36.0°C24 Oct 2002	12.4°C1 Oct 1946	137 mm20 Oct 2011	205 mm1964 · driest 0 mm in 1962	84
November	38.8°C29 Nov 2018	14.6°C26 Nov 1947	185 mm23 Nov 1989	372 mm1989 · driest 1 mm in 2019	84
December	40.5°C20 Dec 1995	17.1°C13 Dec 1972	268 mm17 Dec 2023	919 mm1973 · driest 9 mm in 1951	84

Typical days per month at CAIRNS AERO, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	31	27	8
February	28	23	10
March	31	24	7
April	30	14	5
May	30	2	2
June	26	<1	1
July	25	0	<1
August	28	<1	<1
September	30	5	<1
October	31	16	1
November	30	25	2
December	31	27	4

How often, not how much — every day in CAIRNS AERO’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	49%	51%	27%	70%	30.5–32.5°C
February	43%	57%	33%	76%	30.0–32.4°C
March	49%	52%	27%	67%	29.7–31.6°C
April	51%	49%	17%	63%	28.5–30.5°C
May	66%	34%	9%	42%	27.0–28.6°C
June	77%	23%	4%	26%	24.9–27.2°C
July	82%	18%	3%	19%	25.0–26.9°C
August	84%	16%	2%	16%	25.7–27.9°C
September	84%	16%	3%	17%	27.2–29.1°C
October	82%	18%	3%	20%	28.7–30.7°C
November	74%	26%	8%	32%	30.0–32.0°C
December	66%	34%	14%	45%	30.6–32.6°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.

1943Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 83-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1972.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 6692725
NOAA station: ASN00031011 · CAIRNS AERO
Station distance: 14.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -16.76°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 16 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 CAIRNS AERO is what differs

Redlynch→Cairns North→Manoora→Trinity Beach→Kewarra Beach→Brinsmead→

Or put two places side by side: Clifton Beach vs Redlynch

Best time to visitClifton Beach.

July

September

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Clifton Beach runs +0.9°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Clifton Beach.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,
and named.