Ideal weather days in Perth
The best time to visit Perth for warm, dry weather is April to May and September to October, with 17 to 20 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Perth's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April to May and September 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 Perth, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too windy102
- Too hot70
- Too wet65
- Too cold24
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), Perth averaged 157 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 January (up to 15 a month, 87 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in June and August (up to 10 a month, 37 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h): 102 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 70 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in December to March. A day can fail more than one test.
Perth weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34 °C 92 °F | 1 | 16 | 21 | 6 of 31 |
| February | 34 °C 93 °F | 1 | 12 | 13 | 7 of 28 |
| March | 32 °C 89 °F | 2 | 14 | 15 | 9 of 31 |
| April | 27 °C 81 °F | 4 | 9 | 14 | 17 of 30 |
| May | 25 °C 76 °F | 8 | 4 | 12 | 20 of 31 |
| June | 20 °C 67 °F | 13 | 1 | 5 | 15 of 30 |
| July | 19 °C 65 °F | 16 | 3 | 3 | 11 of 31 |
| August | 20 °C 68 °F | 12 | 5 | 5 | 15 of 31 |
| September | 23 °C 73 °F | 8 | 5 | 8 | 19 of 30 |
| October | 26 °C 78 °F | 5 | 8 | 12 | 18 of 31 |
| November | 29 °C 84 °F | 3 | 11 | 14 | 13 of 30 |
| December | 33 °C 91 °F | 1 | 16 | 18 | 7 of 31 |
| Year | 73 | 102 | 140 | 157 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 162 warm, dry days
- 2024 142 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Perth for good weather?
The best time to visit Perth for warm, dry weather is April to May and September to October, with 17 to 20 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in January (up to 15 a month, 87 a year). Counted from measured days at Perth International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Perth?
On average 73 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was July (16 rain days), the driest December (1).
How many sunny days does Perth get a year?
About 140 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 January (21).
How warm does Perth get?
The median daily high ranged from 19 °C (65 °F) in July to 34 °C (93 °F) in February.
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Source: Perth International weather station (94610099999), 10 km from the centre of Perth, 20 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.