Climate Gladstone 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Gladstone Airport (YGLA) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	91.8	86	86	91	92	93
February	92.3	92	87	92	91	89
March	87.8	85	90	88	84	86
April	95.8		98	92	93	99
May	94.6		94	82	98	100
June	95.7		98	94	91	93
July	90.3		97	91	96	54
August	96.3		99	95	97	88
September	96.9		99	89	98	95
October	89.2		97	77	90	92
November	92.5		84	89	83	97
December	94.5		91	96	95	94
Average	92.5	87.5	92.9	89.4	92.2	89.9

52nd best VFR conditions of Australia

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	99.1	98	99	98	100	99
February	98.3	99	94	99	99	99
March	98.2	97	100	97	100	98
April	99.4		100	100	98	100
May	98.5		97	95	100	100
June	98.7		100	99	95	98
July	92.8		99	98	99	55
August	97.8		99	100	99	88
September	99.5		100	98	100	100
October	97.8		99	99	98	100
November	99.2		99	99	98	100
December	99.0		100	99	99	99
Average	98.2	98.1	98.7	98.2	98.8	94.6

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	30.5	32	29	31	30	31
February	30.9	32	31	31	31	31
March	29.9	30	31	31	30	29
April	28.0		29	28	27	29
May	25.4		25	26	26	25
June	23.6		25	23	23	24
July	23.1		24	21	23	23
August	24.3		25	23	24	24
September	25.8		26	25	25	26
October	27.0		27	27	28	27
November	28.5		28	28	28	29
December	30.1		31	29	30	30
Average	27.7	31.0	27.4	26.6	26.9	27.2

51st highest temperature of Australia

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	23.6	25	22	24	23	25
February	23.4	24	23	23	23	24
March	22.5	23	23	22	22	22
April	19.6		19	20	19	20
May	16.1		13	19	16	16
June	13.7		14	13	14	15
July	12.8		14	12	13	13
August	13.2		14	13	14	13
September	16.0		16	16	16	17
October	19.2		18	20	19	19
November	20.9		22	20	21	22
December	22.8		24	21	23	24
Average	19.2	23.9	18.4	18.2	18.5	19.0

61st lowest temperature of Australia

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	2.2	3	14	0	0	0
February	1.5	6	7	0	0	0
March	1.0	5	0	3	0	0
April	1.4		3	7	0	0
May	2.6		5	13	0	0
June	0.1		1	0	0	0
July	0.4		3	0	0	0
August	0.0		0	0	0	0
September	0.0		0	0	0	0
October	0.0		0	0	0	0
November	2.5		9	8	0	0
December	0.1		0	1	0	0
Average	1.3	4.4	3.6	2.8

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	11.9	11	11	11	13	11
February	11.7	12	11	12	12	9
March	10.8	13	10	10	10	11
April	10.8		10	12	9	10
May	9.1		9	9	10	9
June	8.2		9	7	8	9
July	8.3		10	8	8	9
August	9.4		11	9	10	10
September	10.8		13	9	11	12
October	11.0		12	11	10	12
November	11.5		11	11	11	13
December	11.9		12	11	10	12
Average	10.7	11.9	10.6	9.8	10.2	10.6

51st highest wind speed of Australia

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	079°	078°	077°	086°	071°
February	093°	089°	091°	072°	073°
March	105°	071°	078°	076°	110°
April		095°	102°	097°	082°
May		110°	112°	099°	116°
June		078°	134°	105°	118°
July		102°	145°	072°	121°
August		072°	088°	073°	063°
September		076°	059°	068°	085°
October		061°	069°	033°	059°
November		066°	062°	055°	061°
December		049°	071°	075°	067°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.