Ideal weather days in Brisbane
The best time to visit Brisbane for warm, dry weather is May to October, with 22 to 27 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Brisbane's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May to October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Brisbane, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet87
- Too hot16
- Too windy8
- Too cold1
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), Brisbane averaged 260 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 December (up to 9 a month, 38 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May to August (up to 20 a month, 87 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 87 a year, mostly in March to May and November to January. Another 16 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in December, January and February. A day can fail more than one test.
Brisbane weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30 °C 86 °F | 9 | 0 | 2 | 20 of 31 |
| February | 30 °C 86 °F | 9 | 0 | 2 | 18 of 28 |
| March | 30 °C 85 °F | 14 | 2 | 3 | 16 of 31 |
| April | 28 °C 82 °F | 10 | 0 | 2 | 21 of 30 |
| May | 25 °C 76 °F | 9 | 0 | 2 | 22 of 31 |
| June | 22 °C 72 °F | 3 | 0 | 4 | 27 of 30 |
| July | 22 °C 71 °F | 4 | 2 | 2 | 26 of 31 |
| August | 24 °C 75 °F | 4 | 0 | 1 | 26 of 31 |
| September | 26 °C 79 °F | 4 | 1 | 2 | 24 of 30 |
| October | 28 °C 82 °F | 5 | 2 | 2 | 25 of 31 |
| November | 29 °C 83 °F | 12 | 0 | 1 | 16 of 30 |
| December | 31 °C 87 °F | 11 | 1 | 5 | 18 of 31 |
| Year | 94 | 8 | 26 | 260 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 284 warm, dry days
- 2024 253 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Brisbane for good weather?
The best time to visit Brisbane for warm, dry weather is May to October, with 22 to 27 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December (up to 9 a month, 38 a year). Counted from measured days at Brisbane Archerfield station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Brisbane?
On average 94 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was March (14 rain days), the driest June (3).
How many sunny days does Brisbane get a year?
About 26 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 December (5).
How warm does Brisbane get?
The median daily high ranged from 22 °C (71 °F) in July to 31 °C (87 °F) in December.
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Source: Brisbane Archerfield weather station (94575099999), 11 km from the centre of Brisbane, 19 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.