Ideal weather days in Adelaide
The best time to visit Adelaide for warm, dry weather is March to April and October to November, with 18 to 22 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Adelaide's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in March to April and October to November.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Adelaide, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold101
- Too windy85
- Too wet62
- Too hot20
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Adelaide averaged 170 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Australia, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in January and February (up to 15 a month, 61 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May (up to 14 a month, 49 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 101 a year, mostly in June, July and August. Another 85 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in June to February. A day can fail more than one test.
Adelaide weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28 °C 82 °F | 3 | 7 | 18 | 18 of 31 |
| February | 28 °C 82 °F | 1 | 7 | 16 | 16 of 28 |
| March | 26 °C 79 °F | 3 | 4 | 13 | 21 of 31 |
| April | 21 °C 69 °F | 5 | 5 | 8 | 22 of 30 |
| May | 19 °C 65 °F | 7 | 4 | 10 | 15 of 31 |
| June | 16 °C 60 °F | 12 | 9 | 3 | 4 of 30 |
| July | 15 °C 59 °F | 10 | 9 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| August | 16 °C 61 °F | 9 | 8 | 7 | 5 of 31 |
| September | 19 °C 66 °F | 7 | 8 | 14 | 13 of 30 |
| October | 20 °C 68 °F | 4 | 9 | 11 | 19 of 31 |
| November | 23 °C 73 °F | 5 | 6 | 9 | 20 of 30 |
| December | 25 °C 77 °F | 5 | 9 | 11 | 17 of 31 |
| Year | 71 | 85 | 122 | 170 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 155 warm, dry days
- 2024 176 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Adelaide for good weather?
The best time to visit Adelaide for warm, dry weather is March to April and October to November, with 18 to 22 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in January and February (up to 15 a month, 61 a year). Counted from measured days at Adelaide International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Adelaide?
On average 71 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was June (12 rain days), the driest February (1).
How many sunny days does Adelaide get a year?
About 122 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in January (18).
How warm does Adelaide get?
The median daily high ranged from 15 °C (59 °F) in July to 28 °C (82 °F) in January.
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Source: Adelaide International weather station (94672099999), 7 km from the centre of Adelaide, 6 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.