Ideal weather days in Townsville
The best time to visit Townsville for warm, dry weather is April to September, with 23 to 28 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Townsville's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April to September.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Townsville, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet76
- Too windy46
- Too hot10
- 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), Townsville averaged 246 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 August to November (up to 25 a month, 201 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in June (up to 6 a month, 14 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 76 a year, mostly in December to March. Another 46 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in September to December. A day can fail more than one test.
Townsville weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32 °C 90 °F | 14 | 1 | 10 | 14 of 31 |
| February | 31 °C 88 °F | 18 | 2 | 3 | 10 of 28 |
| March | 31 °C 88 °F | 16 | 2 | 7 | 16 of 31 |
| April | 30 °C 86 °F | 5 | 2 | 7 | 23 of 30 |
| May | 29 °C 83 °F | 3 | 2 | 8 | 27 of 31 |
| June | 27 °C 81 °F | 3 | 0 | 13 | 28 of 30 |
| July | 27 °C 80 °F | 4 | 3 | 10 | 25 of 31 |
| August | 27 °C 81 °F | 1 | 3 | 18 | 28 of 31 |
| September | 29 °C 83 °F | 0 | 9 | 19 | 23 of 30 |
| October | 30 °C 86 °F | 3 | 8 | 20 | 22 of 31 |
| November | 31 °C 88 °F | 6 | 9 | 11 | 17 of 30 |
| December | 31 °C 88 °F | 12 | 7 | 13 | 14 of 31 |
| Year | 85 | 47 | 140 | 246 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 245 warm, dry days
- 2024 262 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Townsville for good weather?
The best time to visit Townsville for warm, dry weather is April to September, with 23 to 28 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in August to November (up to 25 a month, 201 a year). Counted from measured days at Townsville station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Townsville?
On average 85 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was February (18 rain days), the driest September (0).
How many sunny days does Townsville 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 October (20).
How warm does Townsville get?
The median daily high ranged from 27 °C (80 °F) in July to 32 °C (90 °F) in January.
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Source: Townsville weather station (94294099999), 6 km from the centre of Townsville, 5 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.