Climate averages 1991–2020

Brisbane weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 28.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 122 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Brisbane: daytime highs average 28.8°C and nights cool to about 21.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 122 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 40 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Logan City (21 km away). In January its highs average 28.3°C, about as warm as Brisbane, with 114 mm of rain.

Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Brisbane ranks 9th of 32 for the warmest January highs and 23rd of 32 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 32 cities is 27.2°C; Brisbane is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 122 mm to 128 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Brisbane climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Brisbane, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.8°C21.3°C	21.3°C	122	12.7	13.714 h
February	28.2°C21.2°C	21.2°C	128	12.8	13.113 h
March	27.0°C19.9°C	19.9°C	93	12.1	12.312 h
April	24.9°C17.0°C	17.0°C	43	8.4	11.511 h
May	22.3°C13.9°C	13.9°C	60	7.1	10.811 h
June	20.0°C11.4°C	11.4°C	52	6.2	10.410 h
July	19.9°C10.1°C	10.1°C	28	4.1	10.611 h
August	21.5°C10.7°C	10.7°C	36	4.4	11.111 h
September	24.2°C13.6°C	13.6°C	35	5.4	11.912 h
October	25.7°C16.1°C	16.1°C	72	8.2	12.713 h
November	27.2°C18.3°C	18.3°C	84	9.7	13.513 h
December	28.3°C20.0°C	20.0°C	110	11.4	13.814 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Brisbane

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Brisbane) is explained once on the Brisbane year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.