Australia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Dotsmere.

July leads for comfortable weather in Dotsmere: typically 26.3°C by day, 18.1°C at night, with 21 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high26.3°C

Typical low18.1°C

Rain in July21 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

85climate match

Beach

September

September · October · May

98climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

65climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 5 against July’s 85 — 341 mm of rain falls, and days average 31.9°C, 8° 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

732° / 24.3°

Feb

531.9° / 24.3°

Mar

530.5° / 23.9°

Apr

4429.2° / 23.1°

May

7127.8° / 21.2°

Jun

8026.7° / 19.4°

Jul

8526.3° / 18.1°

Aug

8327.2° / 18.4°

Sep

7428.8° / 20.8°

Oct

6530.4° / 22.5°

Nov

5431.6° / 23.8°

Dec

3132.4° / 24.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Dotsmere — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 35 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	32°C	24.3°C	304 mm	16.7	28.9°C	12 h 57	7	Good coverage
February	31.9°C	24.3°C	341 mm	15.5	28.9°C	12 h 37	5	Good coverage
March	30.5°C	23.9°C	413 mm	18	28.5°C	12 h 13	5	Good coverage
April	29.2°C	23.1°C	153 mm	11.6	27.3°C	11 h 46	44	Good coverage
May	27.8°C	21.2°C	44 mm	7.7	25.8°C	11 h 24	71	Good coverage
June	26.7°C	19.4°C	37 mm	6.3	24.5°C	11 h 13	80	Good coverage
July	26.3°C	18.1°C	21 mm	4.8	23.7°C	11 h 18	85	Good coverage
August	27.2°C	18.4°C	15 mm	3.2	23.7°C	11 h 36	83	Good coverage
September	28.8°C	20.8°C	9 mm	2.4	24.7°C	12 h 02	74	Good coverage
October	30.4°C	22.5°C	25 mm	3.7	25.9°C	12 h 28	65	Good coverage
November	31.6°C	23.8°C	59 mm	4.9	27.2°C	12 h 51	54	Good coverage
December	32.4°C	24.5°C	168 mm	9	28.4°C	13 h 02	31	Good coverage

Records at COOKTOWN AIRPORT, 2000–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	38.7°C19 Jan 2020	20.2°C14 Jan 2005	294 mm20 Jan 2023	720 mm2023 · driest 83 mm in 2007	26
February	38.2°C21 Feb 2019	20.7°C21 Feb 2005	153 mm24 Feb 2016	832 mm2017 · driest 26 mm in 2005	26
March	37.0°C4 Mar 2022	18.9°C18 Mar 2015	305 mm19 Mar 2004	915 mm2006 · driest 99 mm in 2003	26
April	35.5°C15 Apr 2023	14.5°C28 Apr 2018	179 mm27 Apr 2021	426 mm2010 · driest 15 mm in 2018	26
May	32.0°C3 May 2014	9.1°C22 May 2009	46 mm15 May 2019	138 mm2019 · driest 12 mm in 2001	26
June	32.9°C27 Jun 2009	7.2°C19 Jun 2011	29 mm12 Jun 2015	104 mm2015 · driest 1 mm in 2012	26
July	30.4°C1 Jul 2003	7.1°C10 Jul 2007	21 mm14 Jul 2006	56 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2025	27
August	34.6°C20 Aug 2020	8.2°C4 Aug 2025	61 mm31 Aug 2010	71 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 2004	26
September	35.2°C18 Sep 2011	9.7°C6 Sep 2019	43 mm17 Sep 2023	130 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2007	26
October	38.0°C24 Oct 2002	14.6°C14 Oct 2009	49 mm28 Oct 2024	98 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 2002	26
November	40.6°C29 Nov 2018	17.8°C18 Nov 2023	136 mm10 Nov 2000	316 mm2000 · driest 1 mm in 2019	26
December	40.6°C2 Dec 2007	18.4°C9 Dec 2022	340 mm16 Dec 2023	831 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2004	26

Typical days per month at COOKTOWN AIRPORT, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	30	27	8
February	28	24	8
March	30	20	9
April	29	8	4
May	29	<1	<1
June	26	<1	1
July	26	0	<1
August	29	<1	<1
September	29	4	0
October	31	19	<1
November	29	27	2
December	30	28	4

How often, not how much — every day in COOKTOWN 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	46%	54%	30%	72%	31.0–33.1°C
February	44%	56%	30%	76%	30.8–33.0°C
March	41%	59%	31%	77%	29.9–31.5°C
April	59%	41%	14%	51%	28.6–30.2°C
May	75%	25%	3%	30%	27.2–28.4°C
June	80%	20%	3%	21%	25.8–27.8°C
July	84%	16%	2%	13%	25.5–27.5°C
August	87%	13%	<1%	10%	26.6–28.2°C
September	91%	9%	<1%	6%	28.2–29.7°C
October	88%	12%	2%	10%	29.7–31.6°C
November	84%	16%	5%	18%	30.9–33.0°C
December	68%	32%	15%	43%	31.6–33.2°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.

2001Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 25-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 2011.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8606524
NOAA station: ASN00031209 · COOKTOWN AIRPORT
Station distance: 16 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -15.40°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 35 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 COOKTOWN AIRPORT is what differs

Hope Vale→Endeavour→Boiling Springs→Elim→Hope Vale→

Or put two places side by side: Dotsmere vs Hope Vale

Best time to visitDotsmere.

July

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July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Dotsmere.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.