Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Hotham Heights.

January leads for comfortable weather in Hotham Heights: typically 16.7°C by day, 8.3°C at night, with 114 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJanuary

Typical high16.7°C

Typical low8.3°C

Rain in January114 mm

Comfort

January

January · February · December

48climate match

Beach

January

January · February · March

8climate match

Outdoors

February

February · January · March

68climate match

The weakest month is May, scoring 5 against January’s 48 — days reach only 4.6°C, 19° 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

4816.7° / 8.3°

Feb

4816° / 8°

Mar

3013.1° / 5.8°

Apr

118.5° / 2.7°

May

54.6° / -0.1°

Jun

51.6° / -2.3°

Jul

5-0.1° / -3.6°

Aug

50.5° / -3.6°

Sep

53.6° / -1.6°

Oct

57.8° / 0.9°

Nov

1511.3° / 3.6°

Dec

3113.9° / 5.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Hotham Heights — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	16.7°C	8.3°C	114 mm	8.4	14 h 26	48	Strong coverage
February	16°C	8°C	102 mm	7.3	13 h 31	48	Good coverage
March	13.1°C	5.8°C	124 mm	8.2	12 h 26	30	Good coverage
April	8.5°C	2.7°C	109 mm	8.4	11 h 12	11	Strong coverage
May	4.6°C	-0.1°C	153 mm	11.2	10 h 11	5	Strong coverage
June	1.6°C	-2.3°C	131 mm	11.1	9 h 38	5	Strong coverage
July	-0.1°C	-3.6°C	125 mm	12.2	9 h 51	5	Strong coverage
August	0.5°C	-3.6°C	109 mm	12.4	10 h 43	5	Good coverage
September	3.6°C	-1.6°C	137 mm	11.3	11 h 54	5	Good coverage
October	7.8°C	0.9°C	140 mm	10.5	13 h 06	5	Good coverage
November	11.3°C	3.6°C	151 mm	9.9	14 h 10	15	Good coverage
December	13.9°C	5.6°C	130 mm	8.9	14 h 41	31	Strong coverage

Records at MOUNT HOTHAM, 1990–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.5°C21 Jan 2009	-3.7°C2 Jan 2009	65 mm1 Jan 2010	198 mm1995 · driest 5 mm in 2009	35
February	28.1°C7 Feb 2009	-6.3°C15 Feb 1991	119 mm6 Feb 2021	419 mm2011 · driest 17 mm in 2009	35
March	24.4°C6 Mar 2016	-4.3°C11 Mar 1991	116 mm25 Mar 2019	337 mm2012 · driest 1 mm in 1996	36
April	18.3°C2 Apr 2021	-8.2°C29 Apr 2009	92 mm18 Apr 2015	248 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1996	36
May	13.1°C6 May 2003	-7.4°C30 May 2000	116 mm31 May 2024	424 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1996	36
June	15.0°C20 Jun 1992	-9.1°C28 Jun 1994	91 mm24 Jun 2025	335 mm2026 · driest 0 mm in 1996	35
July	12.0°C19 Jul 2026	-8.8°C18 Jul 2004	89 mm6 Jul 1998	292 mm2013 · driest 4 mm in 2019	36
August	10.7°C29 Aug 2006	-10.4°C28 Aug 2017	98 mm31 Aug 2005	567 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 2019	35
September	15.3°C13 Sep 2015	-9.2°C25 Sep 2006	131 mm5 Sep 2010	359 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1996	35
October	19.0°C20 Oct 2015	-8.4°C9 Oct 2003	130 mm31 Oct 2010	388 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 2019	34
November	23.6°C26 Nov 1997	-7.0°C16 Nov 2022	96 mm14 Nov 2010	395 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 1996	33
December	26.3°C20 Dec 2019	-5.4°C14 Dec 2022	159 mm30 Dec 2016	294 mm2003 · driest 18 mm in 2001	36

Typical days per month at MOUNT HOTHAM, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	2	4
February	<1	2	3
March	0	4	3
April	0	7	3
May	0	15	4
June	0	23	4
July	0	28	4
August	0	27	3
September	0	20	4
October	0	14	4
November	0	7	5
December	<1	4	3

How often, not how much — every day in MOUNT HOTHAM’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	23%	26%	12%	28%	14.6–18.7°C
February	16%	25%	10%	27%	13.7–18.1°C
March	5%	28%	12%	33%	11.2–15.6°C
April	0%	28%	11%	36%	7.0–10.7°C
May	0%	35%	14%	45%	3.1–6.3°C
June	0%	37%	15%	56%	0.2–3.0°C
July	0%	41%	14%	55%	-1.2–1.7°C
August	0%	42%	13%	58%	-1.1–2.4°C
September	0%	38%	14%	47%	2.0–5.2°C
October	0%	35%	15%	46%	5.5–10.2°C
November	2%	36%	18%	47%	9.1–14.0°C
December	7%	30%	12%	33%	11.8–15.9°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.

1991Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 23-year average. Warmest: 2014. Coolest: 1992.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8348827
NOAA station: ASN00083085 · MOUNT HOTHAM
Station distance: 2.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 23 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -36.99°, 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.

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Best time to visit
Hotham Heights.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.