Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Mount Pleasant.

August leads for comfortable weather in Mount Pleasant: typically 23°C by day, 14.4°C at night, with 30 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust
Typical high23°C
Typical low14.4°C
Rain in August30 mm
Comfort

August

August · September · July

95climate match
Beach

October

October · November · September

93climate match
Outdoors

July

July · August · June

87climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 13 against August’s 95328 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
2330.5° / 23.9°
Feb
1330.1° / 23.8°
Mar
2929° / 22.7°
Apr
5827° / 20.5°
May
8024.4° / 17.5°
Jun
8722.2° / 14.9°
Jul
8921.7° / 13.7°
Aug
9523° / 14.4°
Sep
9025.9° / 17.2°
Oct
7728.1° / 19.9°
Nov
5829.7° / 21.9°
Dec
3930.7° / 23.3°
Monthly climate evidence for Mount Pleasant — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 22 km away
MonthDayNightRainWet daysSeaDaylightComfortCoverage
January30.5°C23.9°C263 mm11.228.2°C13 h 1723Strong coverage
February30.1°C23.8°C328 mm1428.3°C12 h 5013Strong coverage
March29°C22.7°C261 mm12.927.6°C12 h 1629Strong coverage
April27°C20.5°C142 mm11.626.2°C11 h 3858Strong coverage
May24.4°C17.5°C92 mm9.924.3°C11 h 0780Strong coverage
June22.2°C14.9°C57 mm7.522.2°C10 h 5187Strong coverage
July21.7°C13.7°C36 mm4.321.0°C10 h 5889Strong coverage
August23°C14.4°C30 mm3.321.1°C11 h 2495Strong coverage
September25.9°C17.2°C18 mm2.522.8°C12 h90Strong coverage
October28.1°C19.9°C30 mm4.124.7°C12 h 3777Strong coverage
November29.7°C21.9°C93 mm6.126.3°C13 h 0958Strong coverage
December30.7°C23.3°C167 mm8.927.6°C13 h 2539Strong coverage

What has changed

Mount Pleasant runs +1.0°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
+1.0
Feb
+1.0
Mar
+1.3
Apr
+0.7
May
+0.4
Jun
+0.7
Jul
+0.9
Aug
+1.1
Sep
+1.1
Oct
+1.5
Nov
+1.5
Dec
+1.3
August daytime highs, 20112025. Last recorded: 23.5°C.
Records at MACKAY M.O, 1959–2026
MonthRecord highRecord lowWettest dayWettest / driest monthYears
January37.6°C3 Jan 201817.2°C28 Jan 1988286 mm5 Jan 19961034 mm1974 · driest 15 mm in 198567
February38.7°C5 Feb 199017.8°C14 Feb 1972356 mm15 Feb 20081071 mm1968 · driest 29 mm in 198367
March35.0°C3 Mar 202513.1°C31 Mar 1970389 mm26 Mar 1963949 mm2011 · driest 36 mm in 199167
April33.8°C2 Apr 198811.2°C29 Apr 2017125 mm4 Apr 1989521 mm1989 · driest 9 mm in 197467
May30.3°C10 May 20167.1°C19 May 1960178 mm21 May 1983546 mm1983 · driest 3 mm in 201667
June30.5°C17 Jun 20024.6°C27 Jun 1960110 mm7 Jun 1967392 mm1967 · driest 2 mm in 196867
July29.7°C14 Jul 19953.8°C19 Jul 1965170 mm5 Jul 1988269 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 200767
August30.6°C18 Aug 20185.0°C14 Aug 196099 mm30 Aug 1998208 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 200866
September32.9°C15 Sep 20037.9°C4 Sep 198542 mm30 Sep 2010115 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 198066
October35.4°C30 Oct 200310.6°C2 Oct 1982103 mm17 Oct 1964152 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 198267
November38.2°C26 Nov 201814.9°C5 Nov 1960326 mm17 Nov 2000591 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 196867
December39.4°C16 Dec 196415.3°C11 Dec 1964314 mm29 Dec 19901159 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 200567
Typical days per month at MACKAY M.O, 1991–2020
MonthDays 25°C+Days 30°C+Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January31195
February28147
March3175
April2724
May11<13
June201
July20<1
August6<1<1
September191<1
October307<1
November30142
December31204

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 95); on 2011–2025 it is August (98). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in MACKAY M.O’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
MonthWarm & dry daysWet daysWashoutsWeek with 3+ wet daysDaytime mean has ranged
January61%39%18%53%28.9–31.7°C
February50%50%23%68%28.6–30.9°C
March57%44%18%58%27.7–30.0°C
April60%40%14%53%25.8–27.9°C
May67%32%10%41%23.5–25.1°C
June69%21%5%22%21.1–22.9°C
July68%15%3%13%20.4–22.5°C
August83%11%2%10%21.6–23.9°C
September91%8%1%5%24.4–26.5°C
October87%13%3%11%26.5–29.3°C
November79%21%7%23%28.3–30.8°C
December70%30%13%40%28.9–31.8°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.

1960Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 66-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1961.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity
GeoNames 8348284
NOAA station
ASN00033119 · MACKAY M.O
Station distance
5.9 km from the place centre
Climate period
1991–2020
Minimum month coverage
30 usable years
Daylight
Calculated from latitude -21.12°, 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 MACKAY M.O is what differs

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