Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Central Coast.

October leads for comfortable weather in Central Coast: typically 23.9°C by day, 10.8°C at night, with 71 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23.9°C

Typical low10.8°C

Rain in October71 mm

Comfort

October

October · November · September

84climate match

Beach

January

January · December · February

69climate match

Outdoors

August

August · September · May

83climate match

The weakest month is June, scoring 49 against October’s 84 — days reach only 18.3°C, 6° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 6.7°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

6728.1° / 17.3°

Feb

6127.4° / 17.2°

Mar

7226° / 15.5°

Apr

7223.4° / 12.1°

May

6220.5° / 8.6°

Jun

4918.3° / 6.7°

Jul

5217.6° / 5.5°

Aug

6219.4° / 5.6°

Sep

7622.2° / 8.2°

Oct

8423.9° / 10.8°

Nov

8025.1° / 13.8°

Dec

7426.7° / 15.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Central Coast — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 22 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	28.1°C	17.3°C	102 mm	9.1	22.7°C	14 h 08	67	Good coverage
February	27.4°C	17.2°C	168 mm	9	23.2°C	13 h 21	61	Good coverage
March	26°C	15.5°C	144 mm	8.9	23.1°C	12 h 23	72	Good coverage
April	23.4°C	12.1°C	144 mm	8.4	22.3°C	11 h 18	72	Good coverage
May	20.5°C	8.6°C	112 mm	8	20.9°C	10 h 25	62	Good coverage
June	18.3°C	6.7°C	123 mm	8.2	19.5°C	9 h 57	49	Good coverage
July	17.6°C	5.5°C	80 mm	7.2	18.5°C	10 h 08	52	Good coverage
August	19.4°C	5.6°C	59 mm	5.6	18.1°C	10 h 53	62	Good coverage
September	22.2°C	8.2°C	62 mm	5.8	18.2°C	11 h 56	76	Good coverage
October	23.9°C	10.8°C	71 mm	6.8	19.1°C	12 h 59	84	Good coverage
November	25.1°C	13.8°C	94 mm	9.3	20.0°C	13 h 54	80	Good coverage
December	26.7°C	15.7°C	111 mm	8.7	21.3°C	14 h 21	74	Good coverage

Records at GOSFORD (NARARA RESEARCH STATI, 1965–2013
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	44.8°C18 Jan 2013	7.5°C12 Jan 1965	197 mm29 Jan 2013	370 mm1972 · driest 6 mm in 2003	30
February	43.0°C1 Feb 1977	9.7°C18 Feb 1998	131 mm17 Feb 1967	402 mm2008 · driest 32 mm in 1978	30
March	40.1°C6 Mar 1965	5.8°C15 Mar 1965	203 mm4 Mar 1977	360 mm1976 · driest 6 mm in 1965	30
April	32.9°C5 Apr 2006	1.5°C23 Apr 2006	110 mm2 Apr 1999	377 mm1999 · driest 6 mm in 2006	30
May	28.8°C1 May 2013	0.1°C27 May 1967	114 mm31 May 2011	431 mm2003 · driest 7 mm in 2004	31
June	25.0°C6 Jun 1997	-1.5°C30 Jun 2010	229 mm9 Jun 2007	644 mm2007 · driest 5 mm in 2001	30
July	25.5°C29 Jul 1975	-4.2°C16 Jul 1970	82 mm14 Jul 1999	241 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1970	30
August	29.9°C23 Aug 2012	-1.1°C6 Aug 1968	144 mm20 Aug 2007	364 mm1998 · driest 3 mm in 2005	30
September	36.1°C26 Sep 1965	-0.6°C1 Sep 1967	110 mm6 Sep 2008	201 mm1978 · driest 3 mm in 2003	30
October	38.0°C14 Oct 2004	1.1°C12 Oct 1968	83 mm21 Oct 2004	305 mm2004 · driest 2 mm in 1971	30
November	41.8°C30 Nov 2004	3.9°C13 Nov 1965	155 mm9 Nov 1966	248 mm1966 · driest 28 mm in 1997	29
December	43.0°C30 Dec 1972	6.0°C7 Dec 2002	125 mm12 Dec 2011	314 mm2007 · driest 3 mm in 2000	30

Typical days per month at GOSFORD (NARARA RESEARCH STATI, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	23	8	0	3
February	20	6	0	5
March	19	4	0	4
April	8	<1	0	4
May	1	0	0	3
June	<1	0	<1	4
July	<1	0	<1	3
August	1	0	<1	2
September	7	2	0	1
October	11	4	0	3
November	13	5	0	3
December	20	6	0	3

How often, not how much — every day in GOSFORD (NARARA RESEARCH STATI’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	68%	29%	11%	34%	25.6–29.2°C
February	63%	32%	13%	41%	25.9–29.2°C
March	65%	30%	12%	37%	24.6–27.4°C
April	67%	28%	11%	33%	22.5–24.9°C
May	48%	25%	9%	27%	19.3–21.7°C
June	16%	26%	11%	30%	17.2–19.1°C
July	13%	21%	7%	21%	16.6–18.6°C
August	32%	20%	6%	20%	17.7–20.0°C
September	54%	21%	6%	23%	19.6–23.4°C
October	62%	23%	7%	25%	21.9–25.9°C
November	62%	27%	9%	31%	23.3–26.6°C
December	73%	26%	9%	29%	25.1–28.8°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.

1965Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 27-year average. Warmest: 2009. Coolest: 1970.2012

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8310663
NOAA station: ASN00061087 · GOSFORD (NARARA RESEARCH STATI
Station distance: 5.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 16 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -33.43°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 22 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 GOSFORD (NARARA RESEARCH STATI is what differs

Umina Beach→Bateau Bay→Terrigal→Woy Woy→Wyoming→Berkeley Vale→

Or put two places side by side: Central Coast vs Umina Beach

Best time to visitCentral Coast.