Barcaldine Airport

YBAR · Queensland, Australia

Climate Barcaldine Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Townsville Airport / RAAF Base Townsville (YBTL) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 88.1 87 77 88 85 93
February 88.0 79 87 95 92 92
March 92.3 85 92 97 98 95
April 95.9 96 92 89 98
May 96.0 99 90 98 93
June 97.1 99 99 92 96
July 95.1 89 94 97 95
August 98.3 100 97 95 99
September 98.8 100 95 100 99
October 97.2 100 97 98 98
November 97.9 97 92 97 99
December 95.0 84 99 98 97
Average 93.7 83.7 92.7 94.2 94.9 96.0

25th 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 97.2 99 93 96 98 98
February 95.7 94 95 98 96 98
March 97.6 97 100 99 100 99
April 99.4 100 98 99 100
May 99.4 100 99 100 100
June 99.5 100 100 100 99
July 99.3 95 100 100 100
August 99.7 100 100 100 100
September 100.0 100 100 100 100
October 99.4 100 100 100 99
November 99.6 99 99 99 100
December 99.4 98 100 100 99
Average 98.6 96.7 98.2 98.9 99.3 99.3

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 31.2 32 30 32 30 32
February 31.3 30 31 32 30 33
March 31.0 31 31 33 31 31
April 29.7 30 30 29 31
May 27.3 27 28 28 26
June 25.7 27 26 26 26
July 25.1 26 23 26 25
August 26.2 27 25 27 27
September 27.7 28 28 27 28
October 29.4 29 30 31 29
November 30.6 30 31 31 31
December 31.5 31 31 32 32
Average 29.1 31.0 28.8 28.9 28.7 29.0

39th 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 24.7 26 25 25 25 24
February 24.9 25 24 25 25 26
March 24.4 25 25 25 24 24
April 22.0 24 23 21 23
May 18.2 17 20 18 17
June 16.2 17 16 18 17
July 15.2 17 13 17 14
August 15.6 15 16 18 16
September 18.3 18 21 19 20
October 22.3 21 24 24 22
November 23.6 24 24 24 24
December 25.0 25 24 25 26
Average 21.4 25.3 20.7 21.1 21.3 20.9

70th 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 12.7 16 18 14 11 9
February 14.0 24 17 9 19 10
March 9.0 14 4 3 5 7
April 4.0 2 8 7 1
May 5.8 2 13 1 12
June 2.0 3 0 3 2
July 3.2 8 5 2 3
August 1.1 0 1 5 0
September 0.5 1 0 0 0
October 2.2 1 0 1 1
November 1.9 2 5 3 1
December 4.5 10 0 4 4
Average 6.5 17.5 5.8 5.4 4.9 4.1

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 12.0 11 11 11 12 13
February 10.4 10 10 10 10 10
March 11.0 12 11 11 11 11
April 11.6 10 13 11 11
May 10.7 11 8 11 11
June 10.5 11 10 10 11
July 10.7 12 11 10 10
August 11.8 13 11 13 12
September 12.9 14 12 14 14
October 12.5 13 13 11 14
November 13.0 13 10 13 14
December 12.8 12 12 12 13
Average 11.6 10.9 11.7 11.1 11.3 12.0

39th 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 067° 069° 062° 086° 059°
February 081° 085° 066° 067° 048°
March 093° 064° 058° 075° 096°
April 069° 086° 098° 071°
May 088° 103° 090° 105°
June 079° 101° 106° 096°
July 097° 113° 075° 098°
August 083° 080° 083° 083°
September 070° 061° 079° 074°
October 062° 056° 030° 053°
November 050° 059° 052° 061°
December 054° 061° 058° 053°

Prevailing wind direction

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