Comfortable, dry August days in places that do not feel hotter than 26°C. 68 towns and cities that draw visitors in Australia and the Pacific were scored in August, and 15 rate Good or better. The eight below lead, spread across the region.
The list
- 193 · IdealTownsvilleAustralia
Rated 93 (Ideal) for easy outdoors in August: midday feels like 22°C, with partly cloudy skies. Good weather here runs from late April to mid October, so there is room either side. Rain is rare at this time of year. See mid August on the map.
- 291 · IdealYeppoonAustralia
Midday in August feels like 20°C under partly cloudy skies, which rates 91, Ideal, for easy outdoors. The good spell lasts about six and a half months, from mid April to mid October. Open it on the map at mid August.
- 385 · IdealHervey BayAustralia
Midday in August feels like 19°C under partly cloudy skies, which rates 85, Ideal, for easy outdoors. Good weather here runs from April to mid November, so there is room either side. See mid August on the map.
- 485 · IdealCairnsAustralia
A typical midday in August feels like 24°C, and the Easy outdoors rating averages 85 over the stretch. The good spell lasts about five months, from May to September. Rain is rare at this time of year. Open it on the map at mid August.
- 584 · IdealBrisbaneAustralia
Midday in August feels like 20°C under partly cloudy skies, which rates 84, Ideal, for easy outdoors. Good weather here runs from April to mid November, so there is room either side. See mid August on the map.
- 679 · GoodNuku‘alofaTonga
A typical midday in August feels like 25°C, and the Easy outdoors rating averages 79 over the stretch. The good spell lasts about three and a half months, from mid June to September. Open it on the map at mid August.
- 776 · GoodAvaruaCook Islands
A typical midday in August feels like 25°C, and the Easy outdoors rating averages 76 over the stretch. Good weather here runs from June to mid November, so there is room either side. See mid August on the map.
- 864 · GoodAlice SpringsAustralia
Rated 64 (Good) for easy outdoors in August: midday feels like 17°C, with almost cloudless skies. The good spell lasts about three and a half months, from late July to October. Rain is rare at this time of year. Open it on the map at mid August.
How this list is worked out
The data
Every figure comes from a decade of weather-station observations, blended into one typical year and read at midday, local solar time. Scores here are averaged in August; a city missing a reading for any part of that stretch is left out rather than scored on part of it.
The rating
Easy outdoors: A comfortable feels-like gates the score — best 16–26 °C for an easy day out (strolling, sitting out, sightseeing). Dryness matters most; strong wind knocks it back. Sun is a bonus, not required. A place is also left out when its typical readings contradict its own rating, for example a high score alongside frequent rain.
The spread
To keep one warm corner from filling the list, entries are at least 150 km apart, no more than three sit within 1,000 km of each other, and no more than three come from one country unless the list would otherwise run short.
Only places that draw visitors
Towns and cities with plenty of hotels, guest houses and holiday lets nearby for their size, or a great many of them in all, counted from Overture Maps Places, an open dataset. That keeps out places the weather favours but nobody travels to. Where two places share one resort or city, the one a visitor would name is kept.
The dotted links open the map at that place and time of year, on the same layer. The map remembers the time of day you last chose there; set it to midday to see these exact numbers.