Ideal weather days in Cairns
The best time to visit Cairns for warm, dry weather is June to August and October to November, with 22 to 27 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Cairns's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June to August 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 Cairns, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet133
- Too hot15
- Too cold0
- Too windy0
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), Cairns averaged 222 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 October and November (up to 7 a month, 35 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in July (up to 9 a month, 19 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 133 a year, mostly in December to May. Another 15 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in January. A day can fail more than one test.
Cairns weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32 °C 90 °F | 20 | 0 | 2 | 8 of 31 |
| February | 31 °C 88 °F | 21 | 0 | 1 | 9 of 28 |
| March | 31 °C 88 °F | 17 | 0 | 1 | 14 of 31 |
| April | 30 °C 86 °F | 13 | 0 | 3 | 18 of 30 |
| May | 28 °C 82 °F | 14 | 0 | 0 | 18 of 31 |
| June | 27 °C 80 °F | 9 | 0 | 1 | 23 of 30 |
| July | 26 °C 79 °F | 11 | 0 | 0 | 22 of 31 |
| August | 27 °C 80 °F | 9 | 0 | 1 | 22 of 31 |
| September | 28 °C 82 °F | 10 | 0 | 3 | 20 of 30 |
| October | 30 °C 85 °F | 4 | 0 | 2 | 27 of 31 |
| November | 31 °C 88 °F | 5 | 0 | 4 | 25 of 30 |
| December | 32 °C 90 °F | 13 | 0 | 0 | 16 of 31 |
| Year | 145 | 0 | 17 | 222 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 225 warm, dry days
- 2024 204 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Cairns for good weather?
The best time to visit Cairns for warm, dry weather is June to August and October to November, 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 October and November (up to 7 a month, 35 a year). Counted from measured days at Cairns Racecourse station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Cairns?
On average 145 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was February (21 rain days), the driest October (4).
How many sunny days does Cairns get a year?
About 17 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 November (4).
How warm does Cairns get?
The median daily high ranged from 26 °C (79 °F) in July to 32 °C (90 °F) in January.
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Source: Cairns Racecourse weather station (94288099999), 4 km from the centre of Cairns, 401 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 84% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.