Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Tanilba Bay.

October leads for comfortable weather in Tanilba Bay: typically 23.1°C by day, 15.4°C at night, with 76 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23.1°C

Typical low15.4°C

Rain in October76 mm

Comfort

October

October · November · September

86climate match

Beach

January

January · February · December

77climate match

Outdoors

August

August · September · July

82climate match

The weakest month is June, scoring 46 against October’s 86 — 180 mm of rain falls, and days reach only 17.9°C, 6° below 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

6827.2° / 20.2°

Feb

6327° / 20.2°

Mar

6825.9° / 19.1°

Apr

7423.5° / 16.8°

May

6120.6° / 13.7°

Jun

4617.9° / 11.5°

Jul

5317.6° / 10.4°

Aug

6618.9° / 11.1°

Sep

7821.5° / 13.5°

Oct

8623.1° / 15.4°

Nov

8024.5° / 17.1°

Dec

7425.9° / 18.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Tanilba Bay — 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	27.2°C	20.2°C	88 mm	8.6	22.6°C	14 h 05	68	Good coverage
February	27°C	20.2°C	123 mm	9.2	23.1°C	13 h 19	63	Good coverage
March	25.9°C	19.1°C	119 mm	10.4	23.0°C	12 h 23	68	Good coverage
April	23.5°C	16.8°C	137 mm	10.1	22.3°C	11 h 20	74	Good coverage
May	20.6°C	13.7°C	163 mm	11	21.1°C	10 h 28	61	Good coverage
June	17.9°C	11.5°C	180 mm	11.4	19.8°C	10 h 00	46	Good coverage
July	17.6°C	10.4°C	119 mm	9.2	18.8°C	10 h 11	53	Good coverage
August	18.9°C	11.1°C	81 mm	7.1	18.3°C	10 h 55	66	Good coverage
September	21.5°C	13.5°C	82 mm	7.7	18.4°C	11 h 56	78	Good coverage
October	23.1°C	15.4°C	76 mm	8.2	19.1°C	12 h 58	86	Good coverage
November	24.5°C	17.1°C	101 mm	9.5	20.1°C	13 h 51	80	Good coverage
December	25.9°C	18.7°C	87 mm	9.1	21.2°C	14 h 18	74	Good coverage

Records at NELSON BAY (NELSON HEAD), 1968–2023
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	38.5°C18 Jan 2017	10.0°C2 Jan 2020	156 mm21 Jan 1971	375 mm1972 · driest 11 mm in 2003	26
February	39.1°C2 Feb 2020	11.9°C10 Feb 2020	211 mm15 Feb 2009	337 mm2002 · driest 22 mm in 1970	26
March	36.3°C2 Mar 2020	11.5°C28 Mar 2002	203 mm19 Mar 2021	688 mm2021 · driest 33 mm in 2009	26
April	32.4°C9 Apr 2019	9.0°C27 Apr 1972	168 mm21 Apr 2015	492 mm2015 · driest 25 mm in 2004	25
May	26.7°C7 May 2006	5.6°C16 May 2021	78 mm10 May 2011	292 mm2003 · driest 12 mm in 2016	24
June	24.6°C13 Jun 2019	4.4°C29 Jun 1969	135 mm5 Jun 2016	393 mm2018 · driest 7 mm in 2023	25
July	24.7°C31 Jul 2014	2.2°C16 Jul 1970	84 mm7 Jul 2022	368 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 1970	27
August	28.5°C23 Aug 2012	1.1°C10 Aug 1971	80 mm20 Aug 2003	248 mm2014 · driest 1 mm in 2005	26
September	34.2°C24 Sep 2006	5.0°C18 Sep 1969	78 mm4 Sep 2008	261 mm1970 · driest 2 mm in 2003	27
October	34.5°C23 Oct 2013	6.1°C24 Oct 2008	72 mm20 Oct 2004	267 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 1968	27
November	40.6°C19 Nov 1968	6.7°C6 Nov 2019	93 mm18 Nov 2013	264 mm2013 · driest 13 mm in 2019	27
December	39.3°C24 Dec 2005	9.0°C1 Dec 2001	120 mm11 Dec 2002	300 mm1971 · driest 2 mm in 2019	26

Typical days per month at NELSON BAY (NELSON HEAD), 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	26	3	2
February	24	2	3
March	21	<1	4
April	9	<1	4
May	1	0	3
June	0	0	6
July	0	0	3
August	<1	0	2
September	3	<1	2
October	7	1	2
November	13	1	3
December	21	2	3

How often, not how much — every day in NELSON BAY (NELSON HEAD)’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	71%	27%	9%	31%	26.4–28.1°C
February	65%	30%	11%	38%	25.7–27.9°C
March	65%	30%	11%	37%	24.9–26.5°C
April	63%	32%	12%	41%	22.6–24.6°C
May	45%	33%	13%	43%	19.7–22.0°C
June	14%	34%	16%	42%	17.0–18.8°C
July	14%	31%	13%	40%	16.7–18.6°C
August	31%	28%	10%	32%	18.0–19.9°C
September	56%	27%	9%	30%	19.7–22.5°C
October	70%	26%	8%	32%	21.7–24.5°C
November	68%	26%	8%	31%	23.3–25.7°C
December	70%	26%	9%	28%	24.4–26.7°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.

1970Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 22-year average. Warmest: 2017. Coolest: 1970.2022

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8347951
NOAA station: ASN00061054 · NELSON BAY (NELSON HEAD)
Station distance: 15.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 18 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -32.75°, 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.

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