Ideal weather days in Canberra
The best time to visit Canberra for warm, dry weather is October to April, with 21 to 25 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Canberra's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in October to April.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Canberra, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold123
- Too wet57
- Too hot12
- Too windy3
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), Canberra averaged 189 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) are most common in November to March (up to 17 a month, 89 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April, September and October (up to 20 a month, 119 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 123 a year, mostly in May to August. Another 57 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March to April and November to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Canberra weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28 °C 82 °F | 8 | 1 | 21 of 31 |
| February | 29 °C 83 °F | 5 | 0 | 21 of 28 |
| March | 27 °C 81 °F | 6 | 0 | 23 of 31 |
| April | 21 °C 70 °F | 6 | 0 | 22 of 30 |
| May | 17 °C 63 °F | 4 | 0 | 9 of 31 |
| June | 13 °C 55 °F | 4 | 0 | 1 of 30 |
| July | 13 °C 55 °F | 4 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| August | 16 °C 61 °F | 4 | 0 | 5 of 31 |
| September | 19 °C 66 °F | 2 | 1 | 19 of 30 |
| October | 22 °C 71 °F | 3 | 0 | 25 of 31 |
| November | 26 °C 79 °F | 7 | 0 | 22 of 30 |
| December | 28 °C 82 °F | 8 | 0 | 22 of 31 |
| Year | 62 | 3 | 189 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. Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month. This station doesn't report cloud cover reliably, so clear days aren’t counted here.
Year by year
- 2023 180 warm, dry days
- 2024 199 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Canberra for good weather?
The best time to visit Canberra for warm, dry weather is October to April, with 21 to 25 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in November to March (up to 17 a month, 89 a year). Counted from measured days at Tuggeranong Isabella Plains station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Canberra?
On average 62 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was December (8 rain days), the driest September (2).
How warm does Canberra get?
The median daily high ranged from 13 °C (55 °F) in June to 29 °C (83 °F) in February.
Nearby
More cities in Australia
- Townsville 246 days
- Cairns 222 days
- Alice Springs 180 days
- Broome 159 days
- Perth 157 days
- Darwin 137 days
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Source: Tuggeranong Isabella Plains weather station (94925099999), 15 km from the centre of Canberra, 588 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.