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Best time to visit
Wurrumiyanga.

July leads for comfortable weather in Wurrumiyanga: typically 31.5°C by day, 18.5°C at night, with 2 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high31.5°C

Typical low18.5°C

Rain in July2 mm

Comfort

July

July · June · August

69climate match

Beach

May

May · June · July

88climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

50climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 69 — 428 mm of rain falls.

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

532.2° / 24.8°

Feb

532° / 24.6°

Mar

532.3° / 24.1°

Apr

2733° / 23.2°

May

6032.6° / 21.3°

Jun

6831.5° / 19.1°

Jul

6931.5° / 18.5°

Aug

6532.4° / 19°

Sep

5633.7° / 21.6°

Oct

4134.1° / 23.1°

Nov

2134° / 24.2°

Dec

533.1° / 24.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Wurrumiyanga — 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	32.2°C	24.8°C	428 mm	18.6	30.2°C	12 h 45	5	Strong coverage
February	32°C	24.6°C	397 mm	18.7	29.7°C	12 h 30	5	Strong coverage
March	32.3°C	24.1°C	338 mm	17.9	29.8°C	12 h 12	5	Strong coverage
April	33°C	23.2°C	195 mm	10.3	29.8°C	11 h 51	27	Strong coverage
May	32.6°C	21.3°C	22 mm	2.5	28.8°C	11 h 35	60	Strong coverage
June	31.5°C	19.1°C	1 mm	0.2	27.2°C	11 h 26	68	Strong coverage
July	31.5°C	18.5°C	2 mm	0.4	26.2°C	11 h 30	69	Strong coverage
August	32.4°C	19°C	3 mm	0.5	26.3°C	11 h 43	65	Strong coverage
September	33.7°C	21.6°C	23 mm	2.2	27.6°C	12 h 03	56	Strong coverage
October	34.1°C	23.1°C	85 mm	6.9	29.1°C	12 h 23	41	Strong coverage
November	34°C	24.2°C	183 mm	12.4	30.3°C	12 h 40	21	Strong coverage
December	33.1°C	24.8°C	373 mm	17.2	30.6°C	12 h 49	5	Strong coverage

Records at PIRLANGIMPI, 1979–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	36.4°C19 Jan 2016	19.2°C25 Jan 1998	195 mm25 Jan 1993	737 mm2014 · driest 144 mm in 1994	44
February	36.5°C23 Feb 2017	20.0°C21 Feb 1992	153 mm19 Feb 2008	879 mm2008 · driest 106 mm in 2025	44
March	36.7°C1 Mar 2016	18.0°C29 Mar 1998	226 mm2 Mar 1997	706 mm1984 · driest 28 mm in 2025	46
April	37.1°C3 Apr 2015	15.7°C21 Apr 1996	337 mm9 Apr 1992	771 mm1992 · driest 5 mm in 2003	46
May	35.9°C7 May 2023	14.0°C7 May 1996	53 mm17 May 1987	97 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 2002	45
June	35.0°C5 Jun 2014	10.5°C28 Jun 1994	36 mm5 Jun 2022	45 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 1998	45
July	35.1°C23 Jul 1998	11.5°C6 Jul 1990	25 mm26 Jul 1986	45 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 2021	45
August	36.6°C22 Aug 2024	10.0°C3 Aug 1990	38 mm20 Aug 1988	72 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 2020	44
September	38.3°C19 Sep 2014	14.3°C3 Sep 1986	83 mm16 Sep 1993	139 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 2006	44
October	38.8°C15 Oct 2023	18.2°C12 Oct 1982	67 mm12 Oct 2022	227 mm2022 · driest 1 mm in 1982	43
November	38.7°C8 Nov 2015	20.6°C1 Nov 2014	105 mm22 Nov 2008	408 mm2017 · driest 39 mm in 1982	42
December	37.2°C7 Dec 2015	21.0°C14 Dec 1990	231 mm9 Dec 1998	853 mm1998 · driest 83 mm in 2012	44

Typical days per month at PIRLANGIMPI, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	30	27	11
February	27	24	11
March	29	27	9
April	28	27	5
May	30	28	<1
June	29	24	0
July	30	26	0
August	29	28	<1
September	28	28	<1
October	29	29	3
November	29	28	6
December	29	28	9

How often, not how much — every day in PIRLANGIMPI’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	37%	63%	37%	84%	31.1–32.7°C
February	34%	65%	39%	88%	30.3–33.0°C
March	42%	60%	31%	81%	31.1–33.2°C
April	65%	33%	16%	35%	31.8–34.0°C
May	91%	8%	2%	4%	31.7–33.6°C
June	99%	1%	<1%	<1%	30.0–32.6°C
July	98%	1%	<1%	<1%	29.8–32.5°C
August	98%	2%	<1%	<1%	31.3–33.6°C
September	92%	8%	2%	5%	32.4–34.9°C
October	78%	23%	10%	28%	32.8–35.3°C
November	58%	42%	22%	61%	32.9–34.9°C
December	45%	54%	31%	77%	31.8–34.2°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.

1980Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 38-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1982.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8347917
NOAA station: ASN00014142 · PIRLANGIMPI
Station distance: 45.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -11.76°, 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 PIRLANGIMPI is what differs

Milikapiti→Pirlangimpi→Tiwi Islands→Gribbles Settlement→Fort Dundas→Melville Island→

Or put two places side by side: Wurrumiyanga vs Milikapiti

Best time to visitWurrumiyanga.

July

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July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Wurrumiyanga.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.