Ideal weather days in Alice Springs
The best time to visit Alice Springs for warm, dry weather is April to August, with 24 to 28 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Alice Springs's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April to August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Alice Springs, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot151
- Too wet24
- Too windy17
- Too cold15
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), Alice Springs averaged 180 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 September and October (up to 21 a month, 101 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in June and July (up to 21 a month, 71 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 151 a year, mostly in October to March. Another 24 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in January and March. A day can fail more than one test.
Alice Springs weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 39 °C 101 °F | 5 | 1 | 19 | 2 of 31 |
| February | 38 °C 100 °F | 1 | 4 | 17 | 2 of 28 |
| March | 37 °C 98 °F | 5 | 3 | 17 | 6 of 31 |
| April | 27 °C 80 °F | 1 | 0 | 23 | 27 of 30 |
| May | 23 °C 73 °F | 2 | 2 | 25 | 25 of 31 |
| June | 22 °C 72 °F | 2 | 0 | 23 | 25 of 30 |
| July | 20 °C 68 °F | 2 | 1 | 23 | 24 of 31 |
| August | 27 °C 80 °F | 0 | 0 | 29 | 28 of 31 |
| September | 30 °C 86 °F | 2 | 2 | 25 | 21 of 30 |
| October | 35 °C 94 °F | 0 | 2 | 29 | 12 of 31 |
| November | 36 °C 97 °F | 6 | 1 | 17 | 5 of 30 |
| December | 39 °C 102 °F | 3 | 1 | 23 | 4 of 31 |
| Year | 28 | 17 | 269 | 180 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 190 warm, dry days
- 2024 169 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Alice Springs for good weather?
The best time to visit Alice Springs for warm, dry weather is April to August, with 24 to 28 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in September and October (up to 21 a month, 101 a year). Counted from measured days at Alice Springs station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Alice Springs?
On average 28 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was November (6 rain days), the driest August (0).
How many sunny days does Alice Springs get a year?
About 269 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 August (29).
How warm does Alice Springs get?
The median daily high ranged from 20 °C (68 °F) in July to 39 °C (102 °F) in December.
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Source: Alice Springs weather station (94326099999), 12 km from the centre of Alice Springs, 545 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 85% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.