Australia · 33.87°S 151.21°E · 30-year monthly averages, judged against the Warm preset (highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F, dry or showers)
The best time to visit Sydney is August to December and May, with highs of 19–27 °C66–81 °F and nights of 8–17 °C46–63 °F.
Rain falls all year, 64–136 mm2.5–5.4 in a month, so there is no dry season. July is the driest month and March the wettest. January is the hottest month (highs of 27 °C81 °F) and July the coldest (17 °C63 °F).
The figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at -33.87, 151.21. This is a climate guide, not a forecast.
Pick the weather you like. Every month is then judged against it: temperature above the month names, rain below.
Good time to go for a Warm holiday: August to December and May.
Open Sydney on the interactive map ↗ the same verdicts for any place on Earth, in any month
Reading the chart. Gold means good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour shows the reason it does not. The temperature bar can be too cold or too hot; the rain bar can be too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar means that half fits but the other half does not. A gold month name means both halves fit.
What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the month's average daily high (the afternoon), judged against the preset's band (highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Sydney's own year, not by raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and at least 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month that the preset does not allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season: 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate where the wettest month has at least three times the rain of the driest. Every monsoon month is also a rainy-season month; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.
| Month | Rain | High | Low | Season | Warm verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1285.0 | 2781 | 1864 | rainy | too rainy |
| February | 1204.7 | 2781 | 1965 | rainy | too rainy |
| March | 1365.4 | 2678 | 1763 | rainy | too rainy |
| April | 1124.4 | 2474 | 1457 | rainy | too rainy |
| May | 963.8 | 2169 | 1152 | showers | good |
| June | 1044.1 | 1864 | 846 | rainy | too cold |
| July | 642.5 | 1763 | 745 | showers | too cold |
| August | 722.8 | 1965 | 846 | showers | good |
| September | 642.5 | 2170 | 1050 | showers | good |
| October | 803.1 | 2373 | 1355 | showers | good |
| November | 883.5 | 2475 | 1558 | showers | good |
| December | 803.1 | 2780 | 1763 | showers | good |
| Looking for | Rule | Months that fit |
|---|---|---|
| Warm | highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F, dry or showers | August to December and May |
| Tropical | highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F, any rain except monsoon | |
| Beach | highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F, dry or showers | |
| Cool | highs 3–19 °C37–66 °F, any rain except monsoon | June to July |
| Snow | highs below 3 °C37 °F, any rain |
Not a clear one. Rain falls all year, 64–136 mm2.5–5.4 in a month, so there is no dry season. July is the driest month and March the wettest.
January is the hottest month (highs of 27 °C81 °F) and July the coldest (17 °C63 °F). Annual rainfall is about 1,144 mm45 in.
The nearest destinations that fit the Warm preset in the months when Sydney does not:
The interactive map colours the whole world by how well it fits the weather you like, in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.