Climate and average weather in Hurstville

In Hurstville, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: late June to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Hurstville typically varies from 8°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 5°C or above 32°C. January is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Hurstville for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid June and late June to late December.

Hottest
Jan
27°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Feb
87 mm
Driest
Jul
36 mm
Rain / yr
686 mm
98 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
80 m
34.0°S
Clearest
Aug
34% cloud

Hurstville is suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Hurstville weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late June to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Hurstville, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from November 26 to March 25, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Hurstville is January, with an average high of 27°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from May 28 to August 29, with daily high temperatures below 18°C. The coldest month of the year in Hurstville is July, with an average low of 8°C and high of 17°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2719
Feb2619
Mar2518
Apr2214
May2011
Jun179
Jul178
Aug188
Sep2011
Oct2213
Nov2315
Dec2517

Average hourly temperature in Hurstville

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on January afternoons, near 27°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Hurstville weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan27° / 19°709.4146.7
Feb26° / 19°8710.713.36.4
Mar25° / 18°7011.412.36.8
Apr22° / 14°538.611.27.1
May20° / 11°517.110.36.9
Jun17° / 637.99.86.0
Jul17° / 366106.2
Aug18° / 385.310.76.9
Sep20° / 11°396.211.87.2
Oct22° / 13°517.212.97.2
Nov23° / 15°689.213.87.0
Dec25° / 17°588.914.27.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Hurstville gets about 686 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.7 months, from around Nov 2 to Apr 24, peaking in February at about 39% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 9.

February is the wettest month by volume, with 87 mm over about 11 wet days; July is the driest, with 36 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 13 · 39%Aug 9 · 15%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan319
Feb3811
Mar3611
Apr299
May247
Jun258
Jul206
Aug185
Sep216
Oct247
Nov309
Dec299

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Hurstville collects about 686 mm of rain across 98 wet days — roughly 57 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. February is the wettest month with 87 mm, while July is the driest at just 36 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec708770535163363839516858
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan709
Feb8711
Mar7011
Apr539
May517
Jun638
Jul366
Aug385
Sep396
Oct517
Nov689
Dec589

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Hurstville, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 12 and lasts for 4.2 months, ending around October 16. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 78% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 17 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around March 30. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 52% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 8 · 80%Dec 11 · 47%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5149
Feb4951
Mar5644
Apr6337
May6634
Jun6436
Jul7327
Aug7822
Sep7228
Oct6040
Nov4852
Dec4852

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around December 16, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around June 17, only 9 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan14.06:048:06
Feb13.36:327:48
Mar12.36:577:13
Apr11.27:216:30
May10.37:455:59
Jun9.88:035:48
Jul10.08:035:59
Aug10.77:386:21
Sep11.86:566:44
Oct12.96:157:07
Nov13.85:477:35
Dec14.25:447:59

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Hurstville averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 9 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Apr 16 to Oct 12. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is November, down near 9 sunny days — about 52% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 920 daysNov 249 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun15Mixed
Jul18Bright
Aug19Bright
Sep16Bright
Oct13Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec10Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Hurstville, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around November 18 to April 9. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 75% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 10 to November 17, and June is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 8 · 100%Jan 30 · 19%muggycomfortablehumiddryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan81735364
Feb51634405
Mar112542211
Apr37392120
May7719400
Jun946000
Jul982000
Aug982000
Sep919000
Oct6825700
Nov38352340
Dec192738160

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Hurstville is steady company: average speeds sit near 11 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJan 8 · 12 km/hApr 17 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb12calm
Mar11calm
Apr10calm
May10calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug12calm
Sep12calm
Oct12calm
Nov12light breeze
Dec12light breeze

Hazard calendar for Hurstville

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Hurstville sits in the South Indian Ocean cyclone belt; the season peaks January–March.

Cyclone
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Hurstville

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Hurstville throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late December, Hurstville is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, Hurstville suits general outdoor tourist activities for most of the year, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 27 · 7.4

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan6.7good
Feb6.5good
Mar6.8good
Apr7.1good
May6.8good
Jun6.1good
Jul6.2good
Aug6.9good
Sep7.2good
Oct7.2good
Nov7.0good
Dec6.9good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Hurstville for hot-weather activities is from early November to mid April, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 10 · 6.6

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Hurstville, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around January (highs near 27°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 17°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Hurstville sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 19°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Hurstville

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 18 km away) is warmest in February at about 23°C and coldest in August near 18°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Nov 16 to Jun 2 — about 6.5 months when the water holds above 20°C.

16°18°20°22°24°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingwarmcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan23Refreshing
Feb23Refreshing
Mar23Refreshing
Apr22Refreshing
May21Refreshing
Jun19Cool
Jul18Cool
Aug18Cool
Sep18Cool
Oct19Cool
Nov20Refreshing
Dec21Refreshing

UV index (midday) in Hurstville by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Hurstville peaks around January 15 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 18 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highModerateHighVery highExtremeJan 15UV 12Jun 18UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar9Very high
Apr6High
May4Moderate
Jun2Moderate
Jul3Moderate
Aug4Moderate
Sep5High
Oct8Very high
Nov10Very high
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Hurstville

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in January the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan96.5
Feb8.56
Mar74.5
Apr5.50
May2.50
Jun00
Jul00
Aug40
Sep5.50
Oct74
Nov85.5
Dec96.5

Air quality in Hurstville by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Hurstville is worst in December — around 49 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 8.1× the cleanest month (June, 6 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModeratePoorDec 1545 µg/m³Jun 236 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb7Good
Mar7Good
Apr8Good
May8Good
Jun6Good
Jul6Good
Aug8Good
Sep10Good
Oct10Good
Nov25Moderate
Dec49Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Hurstville is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Hurstville banks about 2,786 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around January.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan395
Feb351
Mar342
Apr250
May169
Jun95
Jul71
Aug96
Sep158
Oct230
Nov280
Dec350

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Hurstville receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.5 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Sep 11 to Mar 17. The brightest month is December, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 2.5 kWh/m² — roughly 63% less than the December peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 317.0 kWhJun 132.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.7Intense
Feb5.7Bright
Mar4.7Bright
Apr3.9Moderate
May3.0Moderate
Jun2.5Moderate
Jul2.8Moderate
Aug3.8Moderate
Sep4.9Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov6.3Intense
Dec6.7Intense

Where is Hurstville?

Hurstville sits at 34.0°S, 151.1°E, 80 m above sea level, in Australia. The nearest listed city is Bexley, 2.0 km away.

Topography around Hurstville

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Hurstville.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Hurstville has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 81 m around an average of 36 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 244 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,081 m.

The land around Hurstville is covered by artificial surfaces (65%) and trees (27%) within 3 km, artificial surfaces (41%), trees (32%) and water (20%) within 16 km, and trees (52%) and water (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
81 m
16 km
244 m
80 km
1,081 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwatermangroves
Nearby: Bexley 2.0 km · Kogarah 3.0 km · Rockdale 4.0 km · Earlwood 6.0 km · Lakemba 6.0 km · Campsie 6.0 km · Punchbowl 6.0 km · Miranda 8.0 km

Australia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type I
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 90% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$65,130
2025
Happiness
6.9 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
0.9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
4.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
none 38%Roman Catholic 20%Protestant 18%other Christian 4%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Hurstville (-33.9677°, 151.1015°, elevation 80 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).