Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Rainbow Beach.

September leads for comfortable weather in Rainbow Beach: typically 24.3°C by day, 13.9°C at night, with 57 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24.3°C

Typical low13.9°C

Rain in September57 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · October

92climate match

Beach

November

November · December · January

76climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · September

84climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 40 against September’s 92 — 208 mm of rain falls, and days average 28.8°C, 5° above 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

4728.9° / 22.1°

Feb

4028.8° / 22.1°

Mar

5228° / 20.5°

Apr

6726.1° / 17.5°

May

7423.8° / 14.3°

Jun

6921.6° / 11.6°

Jul

7421.3° / 10.3°

Aug

8022.3° / 10.9°

Sep

9224.3° / 13.9°

Oct

8025.5° / 16.7°

Nov

7327.1° / 18.9°

Dec

5828.3° / 20.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Rainbow Beach — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 5 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	28.9°C	22.1°C	161 mm	10.1	26.1°C	13 h 35	47	Good coverage
February	28.8°C	22.1°C	208 mm	11.3	26.6°C	13 h 01	40	Good coverage
March	28°C	20.5°C	153 mm	12.4	26.2°C	12 h 19	52	Good coverage
April	26.1°C	17.5°C	125 mm	12.3	25.2°C	11 h 31	67	Good coverage
May	23.8°C	14.3°C	150 mm	11.5	23.7°C	10 h 52	74	Good coverage
June	21.6°C	11.6°C	111 mm	10.1	22.3°C	10 h 32	69	Good coverage
July	21.3°C	10.3°C	69 mm	7.6	21.2°C	10 h 40	74	Good coverage
August	22.3°C	10.9°C	66 mm	5.6	21.0°C	11 h 13	80	Good coverage
September	24.3°C	13.9°C	57 mm	5.2	21.7°C	11 h 58	92	Good coverage
October	25.5°C	16.7°C	97 mm	6.5	22.7°C	12 h 45	80	Good coverage
November	27.1°C	18.9°C	85 mm	6.2	23.8°C	13 h 25	73	Good coverage
December	28.3°C	20.7°C	123 mm	8.8	25.1°C	13 h 45	58	Good coverage

Records at RAINBOW BEACH, 1992–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	37.2°C12 Jan 2002	15.2°C17 Jan 1997	141 mm2 Jan 2024	465 mm2011 · driest 17 mm in 2007	33
February	37.0°C23 Feb 2008	14.8°C15 Feb 1996	242 mm5 Feb 2003	674 mm1999 · driest 19 mm in 2017	33
March	35.2°C1 Mar 1993	12.3°C15 Mar 1994	194 mm28 Mar 2025	500 mm2025 · driest 34 mm in 2000	33
April	32.3°C4 Apr 2006	7.0°C13 Apr 1994	125 mm14 Apr 2009	316 mm1994 · driest 40 mm in 2020	33
May	29.3°C6 May 2015	2.0°C31 May 2000	166 mm11 May 1999	559 mm2022 · driest 31 mm in 2001	33
June	27.1°C9 Jun 2016	2.3°C26 Jun 1992	83 mm3 Jun 2012	284 mm1999 · driest 25 mm in 2011	34
July	27.3°C23 Jul 2016	-1.0°C19 Jul 2007	97 mm25 Jul 1999	286 mm1999 · driest 3 mm in 2002	34
August	30.2°C30 Aug 2009	0.4°C10 Aug 1995	154 mm25 Aug 2007	250 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 2013	34
September	32.4°C4 Sep 2019	2.0°C21 Sep 1994	108 mm6 Sep 2010	202 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2019	34
October	35.2°C7 Oct 2005	6.7°C9 Oct 1994	264 mm22 Oct 2022	365 mm2022 · driest 4 mm in 2013	33
November	36.0°C7 Nov 1994	9.2°C3 Nov 2022	86 mm30 Nov 2017	298 mm2021 · driest 5 mm in 1994	34
December	37.2°C16 Dec 2019	11.4°C11 Dec 1992	110 mm13 Dec 2010	536 mm2010 · driest 18 mm in 2012	34

Typical days per month at RAINBOW BEACH, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	31	7	4
February	28	6	4
March	30	3	4
April	24	<1	4
May	7	0	4
June	1	0	4
July	<1	0	2
August	3	0	2
September	10	<1	2
October	17	2	2
November	26	4	3
December	30	5	3

How often, not how much — every day in RAINBOW BEACH’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	66%	34%	13%	44%	28.0–29.9°C
February	59%	40%	16%	55%	28.0–29.9°C
March	59%	41%	15%	56%	27.3–29.1°C
April	59%	41%	13%	58%	25.5–26.8°C
May	61%	38%	14%	49%	23.1–24.4°C
June	58%	32%	11%	40%	20.9–22.5°C
July	60%	26%	7%	28%	20.5–22.1°C
August	76%	19%	5%	21%	21.5–23.4°C
September	82%	18%	5%	15%	23.3–25.4°C
October	77%	23%	8%	24%	24.7–26.5°C
November	77%	23%	10%	26%	26.0–28.5°C
December	71%	28%	11%	32%	26.8–29.6°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.

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 6955345
NOAA station: ASN00040856 · RAINBOW BEACH
Station distance: 0.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 16 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -25.90°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 5 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 RAINBOW BEACH is what differs

Tin Can Bay→Poona→Inskip→Tinnanbar→

Or put two places side by side: Rainbow Beach vs Tin Can Bay

Best time to visitRainbow Beach.