Climate and average weather in Taree

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

Best: mid June to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Taree typically varies from 9°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 6°C or above 31°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 Taree for warm-weather activities are from early January to early June and mid June to late December.

Hottest
Jan
27°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Mar
121 mm
Driest
Aug
40 mm
Rain / yr
923 mm
118 wet days
Daylight
9.9–14.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
30 m
31.9°S
Clearest
Aug
33% cloud

Taree is town in New South Wales, Australia.

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

Taree 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 mid June to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from November 24 to March 24, with daily high temperatures above 25°C. The hottest month of the year in Taree is January, with an average high of 27°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 2.8 months, from May 28 to August 21, with daily high temperatures below 19°C. The coldest month of the year in Taree is July, with an average low of 9°C and high of 18°C.

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

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2720
Feb2720
Mar2518
Apr2315
May2012
Jun1810
Jul189
Aug199
Sep2112
Oct2314
Nov2416
Dec2618

Average hourly temperature in Taree

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

Taree 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° / 20°8911.513.96.4
Feb27° / 20°10711.413.26.3
Mar25° / 18°1211312.26.5
Apr23° / 15°7811.211.26.8
May20° / 12°739.510.46.6
Jun18° / 10°8210.2106.1
Jul18° / 537.610.16.4
Aug19° / 40610.87.2
Sep21° / 12°446.811.87.4
Oct23° / 14°598.612.87.3
Nov24° / 16°9010.913.66.8
Dec26° / 18°8911.6146.5

Chance of rain

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

Taree gets about 923 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.3 months, from around Oct 30 to May 8, peaking in February at about 43% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 9.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 121 mm over about 13 wet days; August is the driest, with 40 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 18 · 43%Aug 9 · 17%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3712
Feb4111
Mar4213
Apr3711
May3210
Jun3210
Jul248
Aug206
Sep237
Oct289
Nov3611
Dec3712

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Taree collects about 923 mm of rain across 118 wet days — roughly 77 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 121 mm, while August is the driest at just 40 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 34% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec89107121787382534044599089
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan8912
Feb10711
Mar12113
Apr7811
May7310
Jun8210
Jul538
Aug406
Sep447
Oct599
Nov9011
Dec8912

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Taree, 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 17 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around October 16. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 80% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 17 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around April 5. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 48% 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 10 · 84%Dec 9 · 50%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5743
Feb5743
Mar6040
Apr6634
May6634
Jun6535
Jul7327
Aug8020
Sep7525
Oct6337
Nov5248
Dec5347

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 January 1, brings about 14 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around June 13, only 9 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.96:037:56
Feb13.26:307:40
Mar12.26:537:07
Apr11.27:146:27
May10.47:355:58
Jun10.07:535:48
Jul10.17:535:59
Aug10.87:306:19
Sep11.86:506:39
Oct12.86:116:59
Nov13.65:467:25
Dec14.05:447:49

Sunny days

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

Taree 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 4.2 months, from around Jun 12 to Oct 16. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 10 sunny days — about 48% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 620 daysDec 79 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May14Mixed
Jun15Mixed
Jul18Bright
Aug19Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov10Mixed
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 Taree, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.2 months, from around November 7 to April 12. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 82% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 13 to November 6, and July 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 12 · 100%Jan 28 · 13%oppressivemuggydrycomfortablehumidhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan315284212
Feb212314312
Mar52239313
Apr24432750
May6429700
Jun8613100
Jul964000
Aug964000
Sep8116300
Oct54301510
Nov263130130
Dec102335312

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Taree is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.4 months, from around Jul 12 to Feb 22. The windiest month is November, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Feb 23 to Jul 11, with April the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeNov 25 · 14 km/hApr 14 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar12light breeze
Apr11calm
May12calm
Jun13light breeze
Jul13light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Hazard calendar for Taree

In seasonPeak

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

Taree 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 Taree

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Taree 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, the best time of year to visit Taree for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to early June, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 24 · 7.6

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
Jan6.4good
Feb6.3good
Mar6.5good
Apr6.8good
May6.6good
Jun6.1good
Jul6.5good
Aug7.1good
Sep7.4good
Oct7.2good
Nov6.8good
Dec6.6good

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 Taree for hot-weather activities is from late September 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 Taree, 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 18°C), pack a light layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Taree sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 20°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 12 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Taree

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 17 km away) is warmest in March at about 24°C and coldest in August near 19°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Oct 23 to Jun 29 — about 8.2 months when the water holds above 20°C.

18°20°22°24°26°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingwarmcomfortable to swimcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan23Refreshing
Feb24Refreshing
Mar24Warm
Apr23Refreshing
May22Refreshing
Jun21Refreshing
Jul19Cool
Aug19Cool
Sep19Cool
Oct20Cool
Nov21Refreshing
Dec22Refreshing

UV index (midday) in Taree 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 Taree peaks around January 17 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 18 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 11 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highModerateHighVery highExtremeJan 17UV 13Jun 18UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar9Very high
Apr6High
May4Moderate
Jun3Moderate
Jul3Moderate
Aug5Moderate
Sep6High
Oct8Very high
Nov10Very high
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Taree

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 7 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)
Jan97
Feb8.56.5
Mar7.55
Apr5.52
May3.50
Jun00
Jul20
Aug4.50
Sep61.5
Oct7.54.5
Nov85.5
Dec96.5

Air quality in Taree 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 Taree is worst in November — around 35 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 5.1× the cleanest month (July, 7 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateNov 1732 µg/m³Jul 107 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb7Good
Mar8Good
Apr7Good
May8Good
Jun7Good
Jul7Good
Aug10Good
Sep11Good
Oct12Good
Nov35Moderate
Dec16Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Taree 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. Taree banks about 3,097 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)
Jan413
Feb367
Mar361
Apr271
May194
Jun122
Jul101
Aug129
Sep196
Oct263
Nov308
Dec373

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.

Taree receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.6 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Sep 10 to Mar 19. The brightest month is January, averaging about 6.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 2.7 kWh/m² — roughly 59% less than the January peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseJan 16.9 kWhJun 132.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.7Intense
Feb5.6Bright
Mar4.8Bright
Apr4.0Moderate
May3.1Moderate
Jun2.6Moderate
Jul2.9Moderate
Aug3.9Moderate
Sep5.1Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov6.2Intense
Dec6.5Intense

Where is Taree?

Taree sits at 31.9°S, 152.5°E, 30 m above sea level, in Australia. The nearest listed city is Port Macquarie, 69 km away.

Topography around Taree

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Taree has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 78 m around an average of 12 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 379 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,221 m.

The land around Taree is covered by grassland (47%) within 3 km, trees (49%) and grassland (40%) within 16 km, and trees (53%) and water (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
78 m
16 km
379 m
80 km
1,221 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Port Macquarie 69 km · Maitland 124 km · Newcastle 130 km · Cessnock 145 km · Muswellbrook 152 km · Tamworth 171 km · Armidale 174 km · Coffs Harbour 190 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 Taree (-31.911°, 152.4539°, elevation 30 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).