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Port Douglas weather by month

Port Douglas runs from about 21°C in July to 27°C in January, with January the wettest month at 680 mm.

warmest month

January

27°C

coolest month

July

21°C

wettest month

January

680 mm

worst air month

October

9 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Port Douglas
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January27°C680 mm279 h6
February27°C278 mm280 h6
March26°C630 mm251 h5
April25°C246 mm291 h5
May23°C167 mm281 h6
June22°C67 mm298 h7
July21°C128 mm315 h7
August22°C107 mm323 h6
September23°C130 mm309 h7
October24°C96 mm361 h9
November26°C118 mm350 h8
December27°C365 mm328 h6

About 3,666 hours of sun a year. Roughly 226 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-25. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.