Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Palm Island.

August leads for comfortable weather in Palm Island: typically 23.9°C by day, 18.9°C at night, with 28 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high23.9°C

Typical low18.9°C

Rain in August28 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

92climate match

Beach

September

September · October · May

90climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

76climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 23 against August’s 92 — 241 mm of rain falls, and days average 30.3°C, 6° 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

3130.1° / 25.4°

Feb

2330.3° / 25.2°

Mar

3429.6° / 24.8°

Apr

6027.8° / 23.3°

May

7625.9° / 21.2°

Jun

9023.8° / 19.3°

Jul

9123.1° / 18.1°

Aug

9223.9° / 18.9°

Sep

8425.7° / 20.9°

Oct

7627° / 23°

Nov

6028.3° / 24.2°

Dec

4829.5° / 25.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Palm Island — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 13 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	30.1°C	25.4°C	188 mm	12.1	28.9°C	13 h 08	31	Strong coverage
February	30.3°C	25.2°C	241 mm	12.9	29.1°C	12 h 44	23	Good coverage
March	29.6°C	24.8°C	190 mm	12.2	28.4°C	12 h 15	34	Strong coverage
April	27.8°C	23.3°C	80 mm	10.1	27.2°C	11 h 42	60	Good coverage
May	25.9°C	21.2°C	54 mm	7.3	25.4°C	11 h 15	76	Good coverage
June	23.8°C	19.3°C	33 mm	5.2	23.7°C	11 h 01	90	Strong coverage
July	23.1°C	18.1°C	19 mm	3.3	22.8°C	11 h 06	91	Good coverage
August	23.9°C	18.9°C	28 mm	3.4	22.9°C	11 h 29	92	Strong coverage
September	25.7°C	20.9°C	27 mm	2.8	24.3°C	12 h 01	84	Strong coverage
October	27°C	23°C	26 mm	3.4	25.8°C	12 h 33	76	Strong coverage
November	28.3°C	24.2°C	87 mm	5.3	27.2°C	13 h 01	60	Strong coverage
December	29.5°C	25.3°C	114 mm	7.7	28.3°C	13 h 15	48	Strong coverage

Records at LUCINDA POINT, 1980–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	37.0°C7 Jan 1994	19.7°C25 Jan 1986	174 mm17 Jan 1981	855 mm1981 · driest 0 mm in 2002	34
February	38.5°C20 Feb 2019	18.7°C4 Feb 2015	213 mm25 Feb 2018	543 mm2009 · driest 15 mm in 2001	34
March	35.9°C1 Mar 1981	21.0°C12 Mar 2003	175 mm17 Mar 2000	684 mm2016 · driest 36 mm in 2008	33
April	33.1°C14 Apr 1981	16.7°C24 Apr 2003	134 mm11 Apr 2006	292 mm2006 · driest 9 mm in 1994	33
May	31.0°C12 May 1992	13.9°C24 May 2020	94 mm21 May 1981	196 mm1981 · driest 1 mm in 2001	32
June	29.9°C1 Jun 1981	11.7°C24 Jun 1982	42 mm26 Jun 2010	98 mm2016 · driest 3 mm in 2004	33
July	28.4°C27 Jul 1998	11.2°C6 Jul 1984	30 mm2 Jul 2018	55 mm2016 · driest 1 mm in 2000	34
August	29.5°C18 Aug 1981	12.5°C2 Aug 2003	81 mm31 Aug 1998	139 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 2008	35
September	32.5°C22 Sep 1986	13.0°C26 Sep 1996	65 mm20 Sep 2010	151 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1980	35
October	31.0°C20 Oct 1986	14.0°C25 Oct 1990	106 mm21 Oct 2010	224 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2001	36
November	34.4°C28 Nov 2018	20.4°C4 Nov 2009	132 mm2 Nov 2013	607 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2019	35
December	37.0°C6 Dec 1991	20.3°C24 Dec 1985	130 mm31 Dec 2025	476 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 2001	36

Typical days per month at LUCINDA POINT, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	29	15	5
February	27	15	6
March	29	10	4
April	27	1	2
May	22	<1	2
June	7	0	<1
July	3	0	<1
August	8	0	<1
September	19	0	<1
October	27	<1	<1
November	29	2	2
December	29	9	3

How often, not how much — every day in LUCINDA POINT’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	59%	40%	19%	57%	29.3–31.2°C
February	54%	46%	22%	60%	28.9–31.2°C
March	60%	40%	15%	48%	28.9–30.8°C
April	66%	34%	9%	40%	27.1–28.9°C
May	76%	25%	6%	28%	25.1–26.9°C
June	83%	17%	3%	14%	22.8–25.0°C
July	87%	11%	1%	7%	22.4–24.1°C
August	90%	10%	2%	6%	22.9–24.8°C
September	90%	9%	3%	7%	24.9–26.7°C
October	89%	11%	2%	7%	26.4–27.9°C
November	84%	18%	7%	16%	27.6–29.2°C
December	77%	24%	8%	30%	29.0–30.7°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.

1981Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 24-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 2000.2020

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8310762
NOAA station: ASN00032141 · LUCINDA POINT
Station distance: 31.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 23 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -18.74°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 13 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 LUCINDA POINT is what differs

Lucinda→Halifax→Taylors Beach→Cassidy→Hinchinbrook→Orpheus Island→

Or put two places side by side: Palm Island vs Lucinda

Best time to visitPalm Island.