Ideal weather days in Darwin
The best time to visit Darwin for warm, dry weather is June and July, with 26 to 27 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Darwin's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June and July.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Darwin, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot163
- Too wet92
- Too windy15
- Too cold0
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), Darwin averaged 137 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 May to August (up to 29 a month, 209 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 0.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 163 a year, mostly in September to December. Another 92 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in December to March. A day can fail more than one test.
Darwin weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32 °C 90 °F | 20 | 6 | 0 | 6 of 31 |
| February | 33 °C 91 °F | 16 | 3 | 0 | 6 of 28 |
| March | 33 °C 91 °F | 19 | 4 | 2 | 6 of 31 |
| April | 33 °C 91 °F | 7 | 0 | 7 | 13 of 30 |
| May | 33 °C 91 °F | 1 | 0 | 22 | 18 of 31 |
| June | 32 °C 90 °F | 0 | 0 | 21 | 26 of 30 |
| July | 32 °C 90 °F | 0 | 0 | 21 | 27 of 31 |
| August | 33 °C 91 °F | 0 | 0 | 24 | 19 of 31 |
| September | 34 °C 93 °F | 2 | 0 | 18 | 8 of 30 |
| October | 35 °C 94 °F | 3 | 0 | 12 | 2 of 31 |
| November | 34 °C 93 °F | 10 | 0 | 3 | 2 of 30 |
| December | 34 °C 93 °F | 16 | 1 | 1 | 4 of 31 |
| Year | 94 | 15 | 130 | 137 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 148 warm, dry days
- 2024 116 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Darwin for good weather?
The best time to visit Darwin for warm, dry weather is June and July, with 26 to 27 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in May to August (up to 29 a month, 209 a year). Counted from measured days at Darwin International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Darwin?
On average 94 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was January (20 rain days), the driest June (0).
How many sunny days does Darwin get a year?
About 130 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 (24).
How warm does Darwin get?
The median daily high ranged from 32 °C (90 °F) in January to 35 °C (94 °F) in October.
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Source: Darwin International weather station (94120099999), 6 km from the centre of Darwin, 31 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.