Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Shell Cove.

November leads for comfortable weather in Shell Cove: typically 24.2°C by day, 13.4°C at night, with 80 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortNovember

Typical high24.2°C

Typical low13.4°C

Rain in November80 mm

Comfort

November

November · December · April

86climate match

Beach

January

January · December · February

71climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · August

91climate match

The weakest month is June, scoring 55 against November’s 86 — days reach only 18.1°C, 6° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 7.3°C.

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

7627° / 17.1°

Feb

6726.3° / 17.2°

Mar

7725.3° / 15.6°

Apr

8323.3° / 12.2°

May

7420.6° / 8.8°

Jun

5518.1° / 7.3°

Jul

5917.8° / 6.3°

Aug

6318.8° / 6.5°

Sep

7721.3° / 8.5°

Oct

8123° / 10.9°

Nov

8624.2° / 13.4°

Dec

8525.7° / 15.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Shell Cove — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 4 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	27°C	17.1°C	76 mm	8	22.4°C	14 h 14	76	Good coverage
February	26.3°C	17.2°C	150 mm	8.8	23.0°C	13 h 24	67	Good coverage
March	25.3°C	15.6°C	124 mm	8.5	22.9°C	12 h 24	77	Good coverage
April	23.3°C	12.2°C	74 mm	7.3	21.8°C	11 h 16	83	Good coverage
May	20.6°C	8.8°C	54 mm	4.6	20.5°C	10 h 21	74	Good coverage
June	18.1°C	7.3°C	93 mm	6.5	19.1°C	9 h 51	55	Good coverage
July	17.8°C	6.3°C	55 mm	4.8	18.0°C	10 h 03	59	Good coverage
August	18.8°C	6.5°C	59 mm	4.4	17.5°C	10 h 50	63	Good coverage
September	21.3°C	8.5°C	42 mm	5.2	17.6°C	11 h 55	77	Good coverage
October	23°C	10.9°C	68 mm	6.9	18.5°C	13 h 01	81	Good coverage
November	24.2°C	13.4°C	80 mm	7.8	19.6°C	13 h 59	86	Good coverage
December	25.7°C	15.4°C	65 mm	8.1	21.0°C	14 h 28	85	Good coverage

Records at ALBION PARK (WOLLONGONG AIRPOR, 1999–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	45.0°C1 Jan 2006	8.6°C18 Jan 2018	122 mm29 Jan 2013	180 mm2026 · driest 3 mm in 2009	27
February	41.0°C5 Feb 2000	9.7°C7 Feb 2014	175 mm10 Feb 2020	356 mm2020 · driest 10 mm in 2000	27
March	39.6°C18 Mar 2018	5.0°C31 Mar 2008	249 mm22 Mar 2011	671 mm2022 · driest 2 mm in 2016	27
April	34.8°C12 Apr 2018	2.0°C23 Apr 2006	191 mm6 Apr 2024	261 mm2015 · driest 2 mm in 2021	27
May	28.0°C3 May 2007	-1.0°C20 May 2000	119 mm14 May 2003	399 mm2003 · driest 5 mm in 2008	27
June	25.0°C14 Jun 2004	-2.0°C15 Jun 2006	166 mm5 Jun 2016	340 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 2011	28
July	28.0°C30 Jul 2017	-1.7°C23 Jul 2018	177 mm3 Jul 2022	551 mm2022 · driest 1 mm in 2017	28
August	29.4°C30 Aug 2024	-2.0°C9 Aug 2009	159 mm25 Aug 2015	282 mm2014 · driest 1 mm in 2009	27
September	35.1°C19 Sep 2023	0.6°C3 Sep 2012	115 mm11 Sep 2025	129 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 2017	27
October	38.0°C13 Oct 2004	1.0°C2 Oct 2002	84 mm15 Oct 2011	272 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 2006	27
November	41.8°C28 Nov 2020	4.5°C12 Nov 2025	82 mm18 Nov 2017	222 mm2000 · driest 10 mm in 2002	27
December	43.4°C19 Dec 2019	6.1°C6 Dec 2012	70 mm26 Dec 2023	207 mm2023 · driest 2 mm in 2019	27

Typical days per month at ALBION PARK (WOLLONGONG AIRPOR, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	23	5	0	2
February	20	3	0	4
March	17	1	0	3
April	8	<1	0	2
May	2	0	<1	1
June	0	0	<1	2
July	<1	0	1	1
August	1	0	<1	1
September	5	1	0	1
October	9	3	0	2
November	11	3	0	3
December	18	4	0	2

How often, not how much — every day in ALBION PARK (WOLLONGONG AIRPOR’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	72%	28%	8%	33%	26.0–28.1°C
February	68%	32%	14%	41%	24.9–27.5°C
March	69%	31%	12%	35%	24.1–26.4°C
April	72%	24%	8%	25%	22.2–24.4°C
May	54%	18%	6%	19%	19.8–22.0°C
June	18%	21%	7%	22%	17.2–19.2°C
July	15%	17%	5%	12%	16.9–18.6°C
August	31%	15%	5%	14%	17.8–20.1°C
September	56%	18%	5%	18%	20.4–22.7°C
October	66%	23%	6%	24%	21.3–24.9°C
November	70%	27%	9%	32%	22.6–25.9°C
December	74%	26%	7%	26%	24.2–27.4°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.

2000Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 26-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 2008.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 7290238
NOAA station: ASN00068241 · ALBION PARK (WOLLONGONG AIRPOR
Station distance: 7.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 21 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -34.59°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 4 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 ALBION PARK (WOLLONGONG AIRPOR is what differs

Albion Park→Dapto→Horsley→Kiama→Albion Park Rail→Flinders→

Or put two places side by side: Shell Cove vs Albion Park

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Shell Cove.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.