Climate averages 1991–2020
Sunshine Coast weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Sunshine Coast: daytime highs average 21.6°C and nights cool to about 15.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 77 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 50 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Caloundra (17 km away). In May its highs average 21.5°C, about as warm as Sunshine Coast, with 77 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Sunshine Coast ranks 9th of 32 for the warmest May highs and joint 26th of 32 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 32 cities is 19.5°C; Sunshine Coast is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.0°C to 19.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 77 mm to 62 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Caloundra in MayAustralia · 17 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 15.9°C · 77 mm rain
- Brisbane in MayAustralia · 90 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 13.9°C · 60 mm rain
- Logan City in MayAustralia · 109 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 14.3°C · 51 mm rain
- Toowoomba in MayAustralia · 150 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 9.5°C · 37 mm rain
- Gold Coast in MayAustralia · 153 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 16.3°C · 97 mm rain
- Bundaberg in MayAustralia · 212 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 16.0°C · 52 mm rain
- Coffs Harbour in MayAustralia · 405 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 14.8°C · 74 mm rain
- Rockhampton in MayAustralia · 447 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 15.9°C · 29 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.