Brisbane International Airport

YBBN · Queensland, Australia

Climate Brisbane International Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Brisbane International Airport (YBBN) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 93.4 75 98 88 98 98
February 90.3 87 92 74 96 85
March 91.5 83 94 91 89 93
April 95.6 93 96 95 91 100
May 92.6 93 97 65 95 100
June 97.9 100 98 99 100 95
July 94.7 90 97 85 96 97
August 98.3 93 100 97 100 99
September 97.5 99 93 99 100
October 93.8 99 94 93 95
November 94.3 87 97 92 97
December 94.2 92 92 93 93
Average 94.2 88.8 95.6 88.7 95.0 95.8

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 99.0 97 100 99 100 100
February 97.4 98 99 91 99 97
March 97.3 93 99 98 97 99
April 98.5 97 100 99 95 100
May 98.1 99 100 90 99 100
June 99.1 100 100 100 100 99
July 98.6 99 99 98 98 98
August 99.5 98 100 99 100 100
September 99.4 100 97 100 100
October 98.5 100 98 99 98
November 98.3 95 98 97 100
December 98.4 97 98 98 98
Average 98.4 97.5 98.9 96.7 98.4 98.8

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 28.8 29 28 28 28 29
February 28.6 29 29 28 28 28
March 27.6 27 29 27 27 27
April 25.6 26 26 26 25 27
May 23.0 23 23 23 23 23
June 21.1 22 22 20 21 21
July 20.7 21 21 19 21 21
August 22.1 23 23 21 22 22
September 23.6 24 23 23 24
October 24.9 26 25 26 26
November 26.4 26 26 26 27
December 28.1 29 26 28 28
Average 25.0 24.8 25.3 24.2 24.7 25.1

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 22.2 23 21 22 22 23
February 21.6 22 22 20 21 23
March 20.7 21 22 20 20 20
April 17.0 18 16 18 16 18
May 13.8 15 11 17 13 14
June 11.2 10 11 10 11 12
July 10.4 10 11 10 11 11
August 11.4 14 13 11 12 11
September 13.9 15 14 14 15
October 17.2 17 17 17 17
November 18.8 19 17 20 19
December 21.0 22 19 20 22
Average 16.5 16.5 16.5 16.1 16.3 16.9

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 10.3 23 2 21 8 12
February 15.0 14 7 30 7 27
March 16.6 25 10 12 19 16
April 11.5 11 7 13 16 8
May 11.7 13 6 35 6 7
June 5.6 1 3 2 6 8
July 9.2 12 5 24 7 11
August 4.5 13 4 8 1 3
September 4.3 4 9 3 4
October 10.3 2 15 4 7
November 7.6 14 4 12 1
December 8.4 7 10 8 12
Average 9.9 14.2 6.0 15.6 8.1 9.8

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 10.7 10 10 10 10 12
February 10.2 9 10 10 10 9
March 9.5 9 9 9 10 9
April 8.9 8 11 8 8 9
May 8.2 7 9 9 8 9
June 8.4 8 8 9 9 9
July 8.9 10 8 9 10 9
August 9.7 9 9 8 9 11
September 11.4 11 10 12 11
October 11.5 13 11 12 12
November 12.1 11 12 11 12
December 11.6 12 12 10 12
Average 10.0 8.8 10.1 9.7 9.8 10.4

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 084° 081° 109° 087° 045°
February 087° 096° 117° 093° 086°
March 123° 062° 099° 068° 111°
April 105° 188° 117° 126° 077°
May 154° 197° 133° 181° 177°
June 244° 197° 237° 240° 173°
July 227° 157° 207° 272° 228°
August 053° 079° 067° 020° 294°
September 069° 037° 044° 073°
October 054° 058° 037° 056°
November 052° 047° 054° 065°
December 035° 093° 086° 047°

Prevailing wind direction

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