Australia travel tips

Best time to visit Australia

Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Australia agrees on Mar, Apr, May, Sep, Oct, Nov.

PlaceJFMAMJJASONDIn words
SydneySeptember to November, March to MaySeptember to November, March to May
Great Barrier Reef & CairnsJune to October (dry, no stingers)June to October (dry, no stingers)
UluruMay to September (cool days, cold nights)May to September (cool days, cold nights)
MelbourneMarch to May, and September to November — the summer can swing from cool to fortyish in a dayMarch to May, and September to November — the summer can swing from cool to fortyish in a day
PerthMarch to May, and September to November — the summer is dry heat in the high thirtiesMarch to May, and September to November — the summer is dry heat in the high thirties
TasmaniaDecember to March for the walking, and the shoulder months for an empty island — the winter is genuinely coldDecember to March for the walking, and the shoulder months for an empty island — the winter is genuinely cold

best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.

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