Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Southern Cross.

June leads for comfortable weather in Southern Cross: typically 25°C by day, 12.7°C at night, with 20 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJune

Typical high25°C

Typical low12.7°C

Rain in June20 mm

Comfort

June

June · July · May

93climate match

Beach

April

April · March · September

88climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 32 against June’s 93 — days average 33.9°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

3233.9° / 22.4°

Feb

3733° / 22.3°

Mar

5532° / 21°

Apr

7330.3° / 18.3°

May

8827.4° / 15.2°

Jun

9325° / 12.7°

Jul

9125° / 11.6°

Aug

8626.9° / 12.4°

Sep

7930.4° / 15.3°

Oct

6532.9° / 18.2°

Nov

5234.2° / 20.5°

Dec

4434.7° / 22°

Monthly climate evidence for Southern Cross — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	33.9°C	22.4°C	152 mm	8.8	13 h 13	32	Strong coverage
February	33°C	22.3°C	144 mm	8.5	12 h 47	37	Strong coverage
March	32°C	21°C	73 mm	6.2	12 h 16	55	Strong coverage
April	30.3°C	18.3°C	25 mm	3.2	11 h 40	73	Strong coverage
May	27.4°C	15.2°C	24 mm	2.7	11 h 11	88	Strong coverage
June	25°C	12.7°C	20 mm	2.6	10 h 56	93	Strong coverage
July	25°C	11.6°C	21 mm	1.7	11 h 01	91	Strong coverage
August	26.9°C	12.4°C	15 mm	1.2	11 h 26	86	Strong coverage
September	30.4°C	15.3°C	9 mm	1.3	12 h 00	79	Strong coverage
October	32.9°C	18.2°C	17 mm	2.2	12 h 35	65	Strong coverage
November	34.2°C	20.5°C	59 mm	4.5	13 h 06	52	Strong coverage
December	34.7°C	22°C	78 mm	5.6	13 h 20	44	Strong coverage

Records at CHARTERS TOWERS AIRPORT, 1992–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	44.9°C6 Jan 1994	15.0°C18 Jan 2025	186 mm11 Jan 1998	408 mm1998 · driest 1 mm in 2025	33
February	41.1°C13 Feb 2017	15.1°C3 Feb 2011	142 mm3 Feb 2007	431 mm2009 · driest 9 mm in 2005	33
March	42.3°C6 Mar 2022	15.2°C30 Mar 2002	80 mm7 Mar 2012	255 mm2012 · driest 7 mm in 2005	34
April	36.8°C4 Apr 2022	8.8°C29 Apr 2017	62 mm4 Apr 2000	142 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 2017	34
May	35.0°C27 May 2016	4.6°C27 May 2011	123 mm11 May 2022	216 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 2026	34
June	32.0°C4 Jun 2003	1.4°C20 Jun 2018	37 mm22 Jun 2007	198 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 2022	33
July	33.0°C10 Jul 2025	1.0°C20 Jul 2024	56 mm24 Jul 2008	145 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 2007	34
August	35.1°C30 Aug 2000	2.4°C12 Aug 2012	87 mm11 Aug 2010	129 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2004	33
September	39.0°C30 Sep 1996	5.7°C12 Sep 2011	30 mm21 Sep 1996	55 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2009	32
October	41.5°C28 Oct 2003	8.5°C13 Oct 2012	36 mm30 Oct 2000	73 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 2008	32
November	41.9°C25 Nov 2018	11.0°C16 Nov 2025	127 mm23 Nov 1999	245 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 2020	33
December	42.8°C20 Dec 1995	17.3°C7 Dec 1999	78 mm28 Dec 2007	273 mm2000 · driest 9 mm in 2013	33

Typical days per month at CHARTERS TOWERS AIRPORT, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	30	28	4
February	28	24	4
March	31	26	2
April	29	19	<1
May	26	4	<1
June	18	<1	<1
July	17	<1	<1
August	25	3	<1
September	29	17	<1
October	30	28	<1
November	29	27	2
December	30	28	2

How often, not how much — every day in CHARTERS TOWERS 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	71%	29%	13%	34%	31.8–36.2°C
February	69%	31%	13%	37%	31.2–34.8°C
March	79%	21%	7%	21%	30.4–33.7°C
April	89%	11%	3%	9%	29.0–32.2°C
May	91%	8%	2%	5%	26.0–28.7°C
June	90%	8%	2%	5%	23.2–26.4°C
July	92%	6%	2%	5%	23.7–26.6°C
August	96%	4%	1%	2%	25.6–28.4°C
September	96%	4%	<1%	1%	29.4–31.5°C
October	93%	7%	2%	4%	31.4–34.7°C
November	84%	16%	6%	16%	31.7–36.2°C
December	82%	19%	7%	20%	32.4–36.5°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.

1993Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 29-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 2000.2021

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8349261
NOAA station: ASN00034084 · CHARTERS TOWERS AIRPORT
Station distance: 9.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -20.03°, 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 CHARTERS TOWERS AIRPORT is what differs

Charters Towers→Charters Towers City→Queenton→Toll→Broughton→Millchester→

Or put two places side by side: Southern Cross vs Charters Towers

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