Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Scotts Head.

September leads for comfortable weather in Scotts Head: typically 22.9°C by day, 14°C at night, with 52 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high22.9°C

Typical low14°C

Rain in September52 mm

Comfort

September

September · October · August

90climate match

Beach

January

January · December · February

72climate match

Outdoors

August

August · July · September

86climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 51 against September’s 90 — 178 mm of rain falls, and days average 27.9°C, 4° 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

6027.9° / 20.1°

Feb

5127.9° / 20°

Mar

5427° / 19.1°

Apr

7024.8° / 16.8°

May

7622.2° / 14.6°

Jun

6219.8° / 12.5°

Jul

7119.4° / 11.8°

Aug

7920.9° / 12.3°

Sep

9022.9° / 14°

Oct

8924.2° / 15.5°

Nov

7325.3° / 17°

Dec

6726.7° / 18.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Scotts Head — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 18 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	27.9°C	20.1°C	122 mm	9.5	24.8°C	13 h 56	60	Strong coverage
February	27.9°C	20°C	178 mm	11.2	25.6°C	13 h 13	51	Strong coverage
March	27°C	19.1°C	181 mm	12.6	25.4°C	12 h 22	54	Strong coverage
April	24.8°C	16.8°C	154 mm	10.6	24.4°C	11 h 23	70	Strong coverage
May	22.2°C	14.6°C	117 mm	8.9	23.1°C	10 h 35	76	Strong coverage
June	19.8°C	12.5°C	142 mm	8.5	21.6°C	10 h 10	62	Strong coverage
July	19.4°C	11.8°C	69 mm	6.4	20.5°C	10 h 20	71	Strong coverage
August	20.9°C	12.3°C	60 mm	5.4	20.1°C	11 h 01	79	Strong coverage
September	22.9°C	14°C	52 mm	5.7	20.4°C	11 h 57	90	Strong coverage
October	24.2°C	15.5°C	75 mm	7.9	21.1°C	12 h 54	89	Strong coverage
November	25.3°C	17°C	126 mm	9.7	22.4°C	13 h 43	73	Strong coverage
December	26.7°C	18.7°C	118 mm	10.1	23.7°C	14 h 08	67	Strong coverage

What has changed

Scotts Head runs +1.5°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

+1.8

Feb

+1.6

Mar

+1.6

Apr

+1.4

May

+1.4

Jun

+0.8

Jul

+1.2

Aug

+1.9

Sep

+1.9

Oct

+1.7

Nov

+1.7

Dec

+1.2

September daytime highs, 2011–2021. Last recorded: 22.7°C.

Records at SOUTH WEST ROCKS (SMOKY CAPE L, 1957–2023
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	39.5°C2 Jan 2002	13.3°C8 Jan 1965	179 mm3 Jan 1959	527 mm1962 · driest 8 mm in 2019	67
February	39.2°C21 Feb 2004	12.0°C19 Feb 1977	159 mm15 Feb 1988	508 mm2009 · driest 40 mm in 1962	67
March	34.3°C1 Mar 2011	11.0°C24 Mar 1998	350 mm20 Mar 2021	649 mm1963 · driest 38 mm in 1986	67
April	32.8°C8 Apr 1966	9.1°C22 Apr 1973	344 mm28 Apr 1963	703 mm1963 · driest 7 mm in 2006	67
May	29.5°C4 May 2007	5.9°C15 May 1968	228 mm8 May 1963	467 mm1996 · driest 1 mm in 2004	67
June	26.3°C26 Jun 1991	4.2°C27 Jun 1971	209 mm17 Jun 1986	531 mm2011 · driest 8 mm in 2022	67
July	28.3°C29 Jul 1958	4.4°C25 Jul 1971	164 mm14 Jul 1999	401 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 2002	66
August	31.5°C24 Aug 2009	4.0°C25 Aug 1997	136 mm22 Aug 1971	260 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 2022	67
September	35.6°C27 Sep 1965	4.4°C5 Sep 1971	101 mm15 Sep 2022	180 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 2023	66
October	37.7°C5 Oct 1988	7.8°C7 Oct 1966	143 mm31 Oct 1984	536 mm1972 · driest 2 mm in 1989	66
November	36.2°C2 Nov 1977	9.0°C17 Nov 2006	135 mm24 Nov 1996	435 mm1996 · driest 7 mm in 1957	66
December	37.8°C23 Dec 1972	9.4°C27 Dec 1962	197 mm13 Dec 2020	513 mm2020 · driest 20 mm in 2019	66

Typical days per month at SOUTH WEST ROCKS (SMOKY CAPE L, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	28	5	3
February	24	5	5
March	25	2	5
April	16	0	5
May	3	0	3
June	<1	0	4
July	<1	0	2
August	<1	<1	2
September	5	<1	2
October	11	<1	2
November	18	<1	3
December	24	2	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was November (scoring 86); on 2011–2025 it is September (95). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in SOUTH WEST ROCKS (SMOKY CAPE L’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%	12%	43%	26.0–28.6°C
February	58%	41%	17%	58%	26.0–28.6°C
March	58%	42%	16%	57%	25.1–27.6°C
April	62%	36%	15%	46%	23.3–25.7°C
May	59%	30%	11%	35%	20.6–22.8°C
June	35%	28%	12%	33%	18.6–20.7°C
July	28%	20%	7%	21%	18.0–20.0°C
August	49%	20%	6%	21%	18.9–21.4°C
September	69%	20%	6%	23%	20.7–23.8°C
October	70%	28%	9%	33%	22.1–25.0°C
November	68%	31%	10%	38%	23.4–26.1°C
December	66%	32%	11%	40%	25.1–27.5°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.

1957Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 58-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1984.2019

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8310776
NOAA station: ASN00059030 · SOUTH WEST ROCKS (SMOKY CAPE L
Station distance: 21.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -30.75°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 18 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 SOUTH WEST ROCKS (SMOKY CAPE L is what differs

Nambucca Heads→Nambucca→South West Rocks→Macksville→Stuarts Point→North Macksville→

Or put two places side by side: Scotts Head vs Nambucca Heads

Best time to visitScotts Head.