Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Mission Beach.

August leads for comfortable weather in Mission Beach: typically 25.4°C by day, 15.8°C at night, with 90 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high25.4°C

Typical low15.8°C

Rain in August90 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · September

82climate match

Beach

October

October · September · November

78climate match

Outdoors

August

August · September · July

58climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 82 — 467 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

531.4° / 23.2°

Feb

531.3° / 23.3°

Mar

530.1° / 22.5°

Apr

1828.5° / 21°

May

4526.5° / 18.9°

Jun

7224.8° / 17°

Jul

7824.3° / 15.6°

Aug

8225.4° / 15.8°

Sep

7627.6° / 17.3°

Oct

6229.1° / 19.3°

Nov

4830.5° / 21.1°

Dec

2231.4° / 22.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Mission Beach — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 2 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	31.4°C	23.2°C	467 mm	15.9	29.0°C	13 h 05	5	Strong coverage
February	31.3°C	23.3°C	507 mm	16.2	29.1°C	12 h 42	5	Strong coverage
March	30.1°C	22.5°C	594 mm	18.2	28.5°C	12 h 15	5	Strong coverage
April	28.5°C	21°C	342 mm	17.7	27.2°C	11 h 43	18	Strong coverage
May	26.5°C	18.9°C	242 mm	15.3	25.5°C	11 h 17	45	Strong coverage
June	24.8°C	17°C	140 mm	11.3	23.8°C	11 h 04	72	Strong coverage
July	24.3°C	15.6°C	133 mm	10.3	22.9°C	11 h 09	78	Strong coverage
August	25.4°C	15.8°C	90 mm	8.1	23.0°C	11 h 31	82	Strong coverage
September	27.6°C	17.3°C	71 mm	6.8	24.4°C	12 h 01	76	Strong coverage
October	29.1°C	19.3°C	106 mm	6.8	26.0°C	12 h 32	62	Strong coverage
November	30.5°C	21.1°C	134 mm	9.1	27.4°C	12 h 59	48	Strong coverage
December	31.4°C	22.5°C	265 mm	11.5	28.5°C	13 h 12	22	Strong coverage

What has changed

Mission Beach runs +0.4°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

+0.2

Feb

+0.9

Mar

+0.6

Apr

+0.7

May

+0.4

Jun

+0.6

Jul

+0.6

Aug

+0.2

Sep

+0.3

Oct

+0.3

Nov

+0.2

Dec

+0.2

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.7°C.

Records at SOUTH JOHNSTONE EXP STN, 1965–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	40.0°C8 Jan 1994	15.6°C16 Jan 1965	441 mm13 Jan 1981	2741 mm1981 · driest 30 mm in 2003	62
February	40.5°C21 Feb 2019	16.0°C7 Feb 1990	350 mm24 Feb 1995	1497 mm1977 · driest 23 mm in 1984	62
March	37.6°C2 Mar 1981	15.0°C23 Mar 1982	414 mm5 Mar 1996	1290 mm1999 · driest 36 mm in 1984	61
April	35.3°C14 Apr 2023	11.7°C14 Apr 1994	285 mm15 Apr 1982	1033 mm1982 · driest 4 mm in 1984	61
May	32.0°C21 May 1988	7.4°C26 May 1974	191 mm11 May 2022	588 mm1990 · driest 36 mm in 2001	62
June	31.0°C17 Jun 2002	5.4°C25 Jun 1965	136 mm6 Jun 1967	463 mm1987 · driest 8 mm in 1981	62
July	32.2°C25 Jul 1982	3.3°C19 Jul 1965	122 mm1 Jul 2021	406 mm1969 · driest 4 mm in 1974	62
August	32.0°C30 Aug 2000	6.8°C3 Aug 1990	110 mm31 Aug 1998	381 mm1995 · driest 2 mm in 2006	61
September	35.0°C15 Sep 2003	7.3°C23 Sep 1965	110 mm16 Sep 2025	393 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1966	61
October	36.3°C29 Oct 1976	9.6°C14 Oct 1965	138 mm20 Oct 2011	379 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2002	59
November	42.2°C27 Nov 2018	10.8°C23 Nov 1965	171 mm23 Nov 1989	567 mm1989 · driest 1 mm in 2022	60
December	40.4°C29 Dec 1971	14.9°C23 Dec 1965	309 mm27 Dec 2007	1049 mm1973 · driest 16 mm in 2014	60

Typical days per month at SOUTH JOHNSTONE EXP STN, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	31	25	7
February	28	21	9
March	31	18	9
April	29	6	8
May	25	<1	6
June	15	<1	4
July	12	<1	3
August	19	<1	2
September	29	2	2
October	30	10	2
November	30	20	3
December	31	25	5

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was July (scoring 91); on 2011–2025 it is August (86). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in SOUTH JOHNSTONE EXP STN’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	50%	51%	30%	66%	30.3–32.5°C
February	40%	60%	37%	77%	29.8–32.6°C
March	41%	60%	36%	76%	29.1–30.8°C
April	40%	58%	33%	71%	27.4–29.5°C
May	47%	50%	24%	60%	25.5–27.2°C
June	64%	37%	16%	44%	23.6–25.7°C
July	67%	32%	12%	39%	23.2–25.3°C
August	71%	29%	9%	34%	24.1–26.4°C
September	75%	27%	9%	29%	26.3–28.3°C
October	76%	23%	7%	26%	28.2–30.4°C
November	71%	29%	11%	34%	29.9–31.5°C
December	62%	37%	17%	47%	30.0–32.7°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.

1965Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 50-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 1965.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8358875
NOAA station: ASN00032037 · SOUTH JOHNSTONE EXP STN
Station distance: 31.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -17.87°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 2 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 SOUTH JOHNSTONE EXP STN is what differs

Tully→Wongaling Beach→Kurrimine Beach→Wangan→Mourilyan→Bingil Bay→

Or put two places side by side: Mission Beach vs Tully

Best time to visitMission Beach.

August

October

August

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Mission Beach runs +0.4°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Mission Beach.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Mission Beach runs +0.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.