Ideal weather days in Sydney
The best time to visit Sydney for warm, dry weather is February to April and September to December, with 19 to 22 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Sydney's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in February to April and September to December.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Sydney, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet102
- Too cold76
- Too hot9
- Too windy1
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), Sydney averaged 206 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 February and December (up to 14 a month, 69 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April to November (up to 18 a month, 172 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 102 a year, mostly in March to May and November to January. Another 76 are too cold (a high under 18 °C), mostly in June, July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Sydney weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26 °C 79 °F | 15 | 0 | 17 of 31 |
| February | 27 °C 80 °F | 7 | 0 | 21 of 28 |
| March | 25 °C 77 °F | 10 | 0 | 20 of 31 |
| April | 23 °C 73 °F | 10 | 0 | 19 of 30 |
| May | 19 °C 66 °F | 10 | 0 | 17 of 31 |
| June | 17 °C 62 °F | 7 | 0 | 8 of 30 |
| July | 17 °C 62 °F | 8 | 1 | 8 of 31 |
| August | 18 °C 64 °F | 10 | 0 | 14 of 31 |
| September | 23 °C 73 °F | 6 | 0 | 21 of 30 |
| October | 23 °C 73 °F | 8 | 0 | 22 of 31 |
| November | 24 °C 75 °F | 10 | 0 | 20 of 30 |
| December | 27 °C 80 °F | 11 | 0 | 19 of 31 |
| Year | 112 | 1 | 206 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 213 warm, dry days
- 2024 217 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Sydney for good weather?
The best time to visit Sydney for warm, dry weather is February to April and September to December, with 19 to 22 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in February and December (up to 14 a month, 69 a year). Counted from measured days at Terrey Hills Aws station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Sydney?
On average 112 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was January (15 rain days), the driest September (6).
How warm does Sydney get?
The median daily high ranged from 17 °C (62 °F) in June to 27 °C (80 °F) in February.
Nearby
- Canberra250 km189 days
- Brisbane730 km260 days
- Hobart1060 km120 days
- Adelaide1160 km170 days
- Townsville1680 km246 days
- Queenstown1950 km, New Zealand101 days
- Christchurch2150 km, New Zealand125 days
- Auckland2160 km, New Zealand131 days
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Source: Terrey Hills Aws weather station (94759099999), 21 km from the centre of Sydney, 199 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.