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Best time to visit
South Hedland.

June leads for comfortable weather in South Hedland: typically 28°C by day, 14.7°C at night, with 31 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJune

Typical high28°C

Typical low14.7°C

Rain in June31 mm

Comfort

June

June · July · August

86climate match

Beach

May

May · June · April

84climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

70climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 33 against June’s 86 — days average 36.5°C, 13° 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

3336.5° / 26°

Feb

3336.3° / 25.9°

Mar

3337° / 25°

Apr

4935.6° / 22.2°

May

7131.4° / 17.6°

Jun

8628° / 14.7°

Jul

8328° / 13.1°

Aug

7829.9° / 13.6°

Sep

6932.8° / 15.9°

Oct

5236° / 19.7°

Nov

4636.5° / 22.1°

Dec

4036.8° / 24.9°

Monthly climate evidence for South Hedland — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 31 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	36.5°C	26°C	71 mm	3.9	30.0°C	13 h 14	33	Strong coverage
February	36.3°C	25.9°C	75 mm	4.9	30.2°C	12 h 48	33	Strong coverage
March	37°C	25°C	74 mm	3.3	30.4°C	12 h 16	33	Strong coverage
April	35.6°C	22.2°C	21 mm	1.3	29.4°C	11 h 39	49	Strong coverage
May	31.4°C	17.6°C	20 mm	1.7	26.4°C	11 h 10	71	Strong coverage
June	28°C	14.7°C	31 mm	2.1	23.8°C	10 h 54	86	Strong coverage
July	28°C	13.1°C	11 mm	0.9	22.5°C	11 h 00	83	Strong coverage
August	29.9°C	13.6°C	4 mm	0.4	22.2°C	11 h 25	78	Strong coverage
September	32.8°C	15.9°C	1 mm	0.2	23.8°C	12 h 00	69	Strong coverage
October	36°C	19.7°C	0 mm	0.1	26.1°C	12 h 36	52	Strong coverage
November	36.5°C	22.1°C	1 mm	0.1	27.9°C	13 h 07	46	Strong coverage
December	36.8°C	24.9°C	20 mm	1.4	29.1°C	13 h 22	40	Strong coverage

What has changed

South Hedland runs +0.8°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

0.0

Feb

+0.3

Mar

+0.4

Apr

+0.7

May

+0.8

Jun

+0.5

Jul

+1.4

Aug

+1.7

Sep

+1.6

Oct

+1.8

Nov

+0.3

Dec

+0.5

June daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 28.8°C.

Records at PORT HEDLAND AIRPORT, 1948–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	49.0°C11 Jan 2008	18.1°C12 Jan 1983	387 mm27 Jan 1967	454 mm1967 · driest 0 mm in 1951	78
February	48.2°C18 Feb 1998	16.3°C25 Feb 1949	329 mm17 Feb 1969	360 mm1969 · driest 0 mm in 1959	78
March	47.0°C10 Mar 2019	15.8°C24 Mar 1970	179 mm24 Mar 2019	427 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 2016	78
April	42.8°C7 Apr 2018	12.2°C24 Apr 1949	117 mm8 Apr 1999	352 mm1966 · driest 0 mm in 1961	78
May	38.8°C7 May 1990	7.0°C24 May 1951	156 mm20 May 1952	170 mm1952 · driest 0 mm in 1972	78
June	35.5°C3 Jun 1996	4.7°C28 Jun 1955	140 mm25 Jun 2013	262 mm2013 · driest 0 mm in 2017	78
July	34.4°C9 Jul 2003	3.2°C10 Jul 1967	73 mm11 Jul 2005	81 mm1958 · driest 0 mm in 2019	79
August	39.9°C29 Aug 2020	3.7°C4 Aug 1953	35 mm6 Aug 1988	59 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 2007	78
September	42.3°C26 Sep 2023	7.7°C1 Sep 2001	19 mm9 Sep 2006	27 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 1972	78
October	46.9°C22 Oct 2002	11.1°C6 Oct 1964	7 mm2 Oct 1975	8 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 1970	78
November	47.4°C19 Nov 1973	12.4°C4 Nov 1969	17 mm2 Nov 2011	32 mm1964 · driest 0 mm in 1962	78
December	47.9°C27 Dec 1954	16.6°C5 Dec 1966	169 mm8 Dec 1975	219 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 2011	78

Typical days per month at PORT HEDLAND AIRPORT, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	31	31	2
February	28	28	2
March	31	30	2
April	30	29	<1
May	30	22	<1
June	26	7	<1
July	28	6	<1
August	30	15	<1
September	30	24	0
October	31	29	0
November	30	30	0
December	31	31	<1

How often, not how much — every day in PORT HEDLAND AIRPORT’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	88%	12%	5%	13%	35.0–37.7°C
February	82%	18%	8%	19%	34.3–38.2°C
March	90%	10%	4%	7%	35.0–38.4°C
April	96%	4%	2%	3%	33.6–37.1°C
May	93%	7%	2%	5%	28.5–32.6°C
June	93%	7%	2%	3%	26.1–29.1°C
July	97%	3%	<1%	2%	25.8–28.8°C
August	98%	2%	<1%	<1%	27.8–30.9°C
September	99%	<1%	0%	<1%	30.7–34.5°C
October	100%	<1%	0%	0%	32.4–37.6°C
November	99%	1%	<1%	<1%	33.9–38.3°C
December	96%	4%	1%	3%	35.1–38.2°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.

1949Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 76-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1956.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8348328
NOAA station: ASN00004032 · PORT HEDLAND AIRPORT
Station distance: 5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -20.41°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 31 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 PORT HEDLAND AIRPORT is what differs

Port Hedland→Boodarie→Wedgefield→Wodgina→Station Peak→McPhees Patch→

Or put two places side by side: South Hedland vs Port Hedland

Best time to visitSouth Hedland.

June

May

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

South Hedland runs +0.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
South Hedland.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

South Hedland runs +0.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.