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Best time to visit
Kakadu.

July leads for comfortable weather in Kakadu: typically 32.5°C by day, 19.1°C at night, with 3 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high32.5°C

Typical low19.1°C

Rain in July3 mm

Comfort

July

July · June · August

65climate match

Beach

June

June · July · May

87climate match

Outdoors

June

June · July · August

46climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 65 — 402 mm of rain falls, and days average 33.8°C, 10° 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

533.8° / 24.8°

Feb

533.6° / 24.7°

Mar

534.2° / 24.7°

Apr

3534.8° / 23.8°

May

5533.7° / 22.2°

Jun

6432.2° / 19.9°

Jul

6532.5° / 19.1°

Aug

6033.9° / 19.2°

Sep

4636.7° / 21.7°

Oct

3537.9° / 24°

Nov

1937.4° / 25.1°

Dec

535.3° / 25.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Kakadu — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	33.8°C	24.8°C	402 mm	20.6	12 h 48	5	Strong coverage
February	33.6°C	24.7°C	392 mm	19	12 h 32	5	Strong coverage
March	34.2°C	24.7°C	305 mm	17	12 h 12	5	Strong coverage
April	34.8°C	23.8°C	110 mm	6.4	11 h 50	35	Strong coverage
May	33.7°C	22.2°C	21 mm	1.7	11 h 32	55	Strong coverage
June	32.2°C	19.9°C	4 mm	0.3	11 h 22	64	Strong coverage
July	32.5°C	19.1°C	3 mm	0.2	11 h 26	65	Strong coverage
August	33.9°C	19.2°C	1 mm	0.1	11 h 41	60	Strong coverage
September	36.7°C	21.7°C	14 mm	0.5	12 h 03	46	Strong coverage
October	37.9°C	24°C	52 mm	3.2	12 h 24	35	Strong coverage
November	37.4°C	25.1°C	128 mm	9.3	12 h 44	19	Strong coverage
December	35.3°C	25.2°C	255 mm	16.2	12 h 53	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Kakadu runs +0.9°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

+0.5

Feb

+0.9

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+0.5

May

+0.3

Jun

+1.1

Jul

+1.4

Aug

+0.9

Sep

+1.2

Oct

+0.8

Nov

+1.1

Dec

+0.8

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 33.6°C.

Records at JABIRU AIRPORT, 1971–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	38.4°C23 Jan 2016	20.3°C11 Jan 2019	128 mm10 Jan 2020	655 mm2018 · driest 128 mm in 2016	50
February	37.7°C14 Feb 2012	20.6°C13 Feb 1972	190 mm22 Feb 2011	801 mm2007 · driest 103 mm in 2013	50
March	38.0°C30 Mar 1998	19.5°C27 Mar 2014	393 mm2 Mar 2007	1142 mm2007 · driest 79 mm in 2022	51
April	38.0°C2 Apr 1998	16.7°C27 Apr 1985	110 mm14 Apr 1985	351 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1997	52
May	37.6°C2 May 2007	13.9°C23 May 1972	76 mm16 May 2014	140 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 2024	50
June	36.7°C24 Jun 2016	9.9°C23 Jun 1980	33 mm14 Jun 2015	61 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1987	50
July	37.0°C30 Jul 2021	8.8°C28 Jul 1984	46 mm13 Jul 2006	47 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 1973	49
August	38.5°C25 Aug 2024	12.0°C17 Aug 2002	34 mm25 Aug 1974	60 mm1974 · driest 0 mm in 1988	48
September	40.4°C29 Sep 2024	12.0°C2 Sep 1978	108 mm19 Sep 2016	242 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1980	50
October	42.3°C19 Oct 2019	13.7°C12 Oct 1982	92 mm23 Oct 1999	270 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2009	48
November	42.4°C15 Nov 2004	19.0°C2 Nov 1989	125 mm24 Nov 1984	277 mm1981 · driest 31 mm in 2009	49
December	41.6°C7 Dec 2019	21.1°C17 Dec 1971	105 mm26 Dec 2021	459 mm2011 · driest 32 mm in 2019	49

Typical days per month at JABIRU AIRPORT, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	30	28	11
February	27	25	11
March	30	29	9
April	29	29	3
May	30	29	<1
June	29	26	<1
July	30	28	<1
August	30	29	0
September	29	29	<1
October	30	30	2
November	30	30	4
December	30	29	8

How often, not how much — every day in JABIRU 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	36%	65%	37%	85%	32.5–35.1°C
February	33%	68%	38%	87%	31.9–34.8°C
March	42%	57%	29%	71%	32.5–35.2°C
April	79%	21%	9%	18%	33.5–35.7°C
May	95%	5%	2%	2%	32.3–34.6°C
June	99%	<1%	<1%	0%	30.5–33.3°C
July	99%	<1%	<1%	0%	31.0–33.2°C
August	99%	<1%	<1%	<1%	32.8–35.0°C
September	98%	2%	1%	1%	35.1–37.4°C
October	91%	9%	4%	8%	36.9–39.0°C
November	68%	32%	14%	42%	35.5–38.5°C
December	52%	49%	25%	71%	33.7–36.7°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.

1972Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 40-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1974.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8348394
NOAA station: ASN00014198 · JABIRU AIRPORT
Station distance: 51.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -12.87°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
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 JABIRU AIRPORT is what differs

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Best time to visitKakadu.

July

June

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Kakadu runs +0.9°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Kakadu.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Kakadu runs +0.9°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.