Climate averages 1991–2020

Bundaberg 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 29.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 22.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 113 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Bundaberg: daytime highs average 29.4°C and nights cool to about 22.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 113 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 29 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Sunshine Coast (212 km away). In January its highs average 27.4°C, 2.0°C cooler than Bundaberg, with 123 mm of rain.

Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Bundaberg ranks 7th of 32 for the warmest January highs and 21st of 32 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 32 cities is 27.2°C; Bundaberg is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 28.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 113 mm to 136 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

Bundaberg climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Bundaberg, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.4°C22.5°C	22.5°C	113	12.7	13.513 h
February	28.9°C22.5°C	22.5°C	136	13.3	12.913 h
March	27.9°C21.4°C	21.4°C	98	11.6	12.212 h
April	26.0°C19.0°C	19.0°C	55	8.2	11.512 h
May	23.5°C16.0°C	16.0°C	52	7.2	10.911 h
June	21.4°C13.6°C	13.6°C	48	5.4	10.611 h
July	21.0°C12.5°C	12.5°C	28	3.4	10.711 h
August	22.3°C13.1°C	13.1°C	27	3.5	11.311 h
September	24.8°C15.7°C	15.7°C	25	4.2	11.912 h
October	26.3°C18.0°C	18.0°C	57	5.9	12.713 h
November	27.7°C19.9°C	19.9°C	51	7.6	13.313 h
December	29.0°C21.6°C	21.6°C	97	10.2	13.614 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 Bundaberg

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 Bundaberg) is explained once on the Bundaberg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.