Climate averages 1991–2020
Sunshine Coast weather
in January.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Sunshine Coast: daytime highs average 27.4°C and nights cool to about 22.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 123 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 36 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Caloundra (17 km away). In January its highs average 27.3°C, about as warm as Sunshine Coast, with 123 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Sunshine Coast ranks 16th of 32 for the warmest January highs and joint 24th of 32 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 32 cities is 27.2°C; Sunshine Coast is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 26.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 123 mm to 150 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
Sunshine Coast climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 27.4°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 123 | 14.7 | 13.614 h |
| February | 26.9°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 150 | 15.4 | 13.013 h |
| March | 25.9°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 122 | 16.0 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.9°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 69 | 12.7 | 11.511 h |
| May | 21.6°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 77 | 10.2 | 10.811 h |
| June | 19.6°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 62 | 8.3 | 10.510 h |
| July | 19.4°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 34 | 5.8 | 10.611 h |
| August | 20.7°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 43 | 5.1 | 11.211 h |
| September | 23.1°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 39 | 6.7 | 11.912 h |
| October | 24.4°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 80 | 8.8 | 12.713 h |
| November | 25.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 82 | 10.2 | 13.413 h |
| December | 27.0°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 117 | 12.0 | 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
- Caloundra in JanuaryAustralia · 17 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 22.1°C · 123 mm rain
- Brisbane in JanuaryAustralia · 90 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 21.3°C · 122 mm rain
- Logan City in JanuaryAustralia · 109 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 21.4°C · 114 mm rain
- Toowoomba in JanuaryAustralia · 150 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 17.5°C · 92 mm rain
- Gold Coast in JanuaryAustralia · 153 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 22.0°C · 130 mm rain
- Bundaberg in JanuaryAustralia · 212 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.5°C · 113 mm rain
- Coffs Harbour in JanuaryAustralia · 405 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 20.8°C · 160 mm rain
- Rockhampton in JanuaryAustralia · 447 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 23.0°C · 99 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 Sunshine Coast) is explained once on the Sunshine Coast year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Caloundra lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.