Climate Dhalinbuy 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Gove Airport (YPGV) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	78.6	75	72	79	78	84
February	78.0	74	71	81	63	82
March	76.0	64	69	83	69	75
April	78.3		71	72	84	82
May	77.8		78	77	80	76
June	64.5		64	50	56	63
July	68.4		56	63	73	73
August	76.7		69	72	65	81
September	78.0		83	71	70	69
October	87.5		82	87	94	86
November	88.1		79	87	89	89
December	91.4		94	94	90	81
Average	78.0	71.0	74.0	75.6	76.1	78.4

85th 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	95.8	96	94	97	96	99
February	97.4	98	97	99	97	99
March	96.8	94	97	96	98	98
April	95.2		92	95	98	100
May	98.0		98	96	99	98
June	99.1		100	97	100	98
July	98.0		93	95	100	100
August	99.3		100	100	99	100
September	99.7		99	99	100	100
October	99.8		100	100	100	100
November	99.2		100	97	99	100
December	98.7		100	98	98	97
Average	97.8	95.5	97.4	97.2	98.7	99.0

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	31.5	32	31	32	31	33
February	31.7	32	31	32	31	33
March	31.3	31	31	32	31	31
April	30.9		30	31	31	32
May	29.6		29	31	30	29
June	27.8		29	28	29	26
July	27.7		27	27	29	28
August	28.8		28	29	29	29
September	30.1		30	31	30	30
October	31.9		31	33	33	32
November	32.8		32	33	33	34
December	33.2		34	33	32	32
Average	30.7	31.5	30.1	30.8	30.7	30.6

27th 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	25.3	26	25	25	25	27
February	25.3	26	25	23	25	26
March	24.8	26	24	25	25	24
April	23.1		25	24	24	17
May	23.5		24	24	24	22
June	21.3		22	24	23	15
July	21.0		22	20	22	22
August	20.5		20	21	22	20
September	21.3		21	22	23	22
October	23.1		23	25	24	23
November	24.7		24	26	26	25
December	25.4		27	25	23	25
Average	23.6	26.0	23.4	23.6	23.8	22.4

87th 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	7.9	19	5	3	1	4
February	6.3	16	7	3	4	1
March	7.0	19	5	5	4	5
April	5.9		10	3	5	3
May	2.9		5	5	1	3
June	2.4		2	7	2	0
July	2.2		6	2	1	0
August	0.9		1	1	2	0
September	0.1		0	0	0	0
October	0.1		0	0	0	0
November	0.9		0	4	1	0
December	1.7		2	3	2	4
Average	4.7	17.8	3.6	3.2	1.8	1.7

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	9.4	12	9	9	9	11
February	9.3	11	9	10	9	9
March	8.7	10	10	9	8	9
April	9.7		9	9	10	10
May	12.8		14	11	14	13
June	12.9		13	13	13	14
July	13.3		14	14	13	15
August	13.1		13	14	14	13
September	12.5		13	12	14	12
October	10.6		11	11	10	11
November	10.1		9	9	11	11
December	8.8		8	9	9	8
Average	10.8	10.5	10.8	10.7	10.8	11.3

27th 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	306°	315°	325°	313°	324°
February	304°	316°	344°	316°	311°
March	332°	028°	059°	019°	077°
April		098°	096°	115°	095°
May		135°	122°	119°	124°
June		119°	131°	130°	128°
July		139°	144°	135°	130°
August		112°	125°	124°	111°
September		102°	101°	106°	093°
October		087°	062°	042°	075°
November		051°	054°	077°	056°
December		348°	029°	015°	360°

Prevailing wind direction

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