Climate averages 1991–2020
Tuggeranong weather
in January.
A warm, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Tuggeranong: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 14.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 72 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 15 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Canberra (16 km away). In January its highs average 26.7°C, about as warm as Tuggeranong, with 48 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Tuggeranong ranks joint 19th of 32 for the warmest January highs and 14th of 32 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 32 cities is 27.2°C; Tuggeranong is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 25.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 72 mm to 78 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
Tuggeranong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 26.7°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 72 | 9.8 | 14.214 h |
| February | 25.2°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 78 | 9.5 | 13.413 h |
| March | 22.5°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 55 | 7.8 | 12.312 h |
| April | 18.5°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 34 | 5.1 | 11.211 h |
| May | 14.2°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 34 | 5.0 | 10.310 h |
| June | 10.8°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 58 | 7.2 | 9.810 h |
| July | 10.0°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 44 | 7.6 | 10.010 h |
| August | 11.4°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 57 | 8.4 | 10.811 h |
| September | 14.9°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 67 | 8.8 | 11.812 h |
| October | 18.6°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 75 | 9.4 | 13.013 h |
| November | 21.5°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 84 | 10.4 | 14.014 h |
| December | 24.3°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 81 | 9.6 | 14.514 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
- Canberra in JanuaryAustralia · 16 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 14.3°C · 48 mm rain
- Wollongong in JanuaryAustralia · 200 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 19.2°C · 84 mm rain
- Blue Mountains in JanuaryAustralia · 222 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 12.8°C · 126 mm rain
- Sydney in JanuaryAustralia · 261 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 19.5°C · 73 mm rain
- Central Coast in JanuaryAustralia · 306 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 20.1°C · 78 mm rain
- Newcastle, Australia in JanuaryAustralia · 372 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 20.2°C · 76 mm rain
- Maitland in JanuaryAustralia · 376 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 19.3°C · 66 mm rain
- Melbourne in JanuaryAustralia · 453 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 14.7°C · 49 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 Tuggeranong) is explained once on the Tuggeranong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.