Climate averages 1991–2020
Coffs Harbour weather
in January.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Coffs Harbour: daytime highs average 26.5°C and nights cool to about 20.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 160 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes January a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 51 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gold Coast (257 km away). In January its highs average 26.8°C, about as warm as Coffs Harbour, with 130 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Coffs Harbour ranks 21st of 32 for the warmest January highs and 28th of 32 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 32 cities is 27.2°C; Coffs Harbour is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 26.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 160 mm to 166 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Coffs Harbour climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 26.5°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 160 | 15.5 | 13.914 h |
| February | 26.0°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 166 | 16.0 | 13.213 h |
| March | 24.6°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 163 | 17.8 | 12.312 h |
| April | 22.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 78 | 12.4 | 11.411 h |
| May | 19.9°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 74 | 9.1 | 10.611 h |
| June | 17.9°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 81 | 7.4 | 10.210 h |
| July | 17.5°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 36 | 5.7 | 10.410 h |
| August | 19.0°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 45 | 5.2 | 11.011 h |
| September | 21.5°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 43 | 6.7 | 11.912 h |
| October | 23.1°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 88 | 10.5 | 12.813 h |
| November | 24.5°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 131 | 14.1 | 13.614 h |
| December | 25.7°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 150 | 15.8 | 14.114 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
- Gold Coast in JanuaryAustralia · 257 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 22.0°C · 130 mm rain
- Logan City in JanuaryAustralia · 295 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 21.4°C · 114 mm rain
- Maitland in JanuaryAustralia · 309 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 19.3°C · 66 mm rain
- Brisbane in JanuaryAustralia · 315 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 21.3°C · 122 mm rain
- Newcastle, Australia in JanuaryAustralia · 319 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 20.2°C · 76 mm rain
- Toowoomba in JanuaryAustralia · 324 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 17.5°C · 92 mm rain
- Central Coast in JanuaryAustralia · 385 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 20.1°C · 78 mm rain
- Caloundra in JanuaryAustralia · 388 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 22.1°C · 123 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Coffs Harbour) is explained once on the Coffs Harbour year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.