Melbourne weather

Now: 17.4 °C Today: Shower or two, clearing. Tonight: 16 °C Tomorrow: 23 °C Partly cloudy.

Today, Tuesday: Cloudy. High chance of showers, becoming less likely later this evening. The chance of a thunderstorm about the nearby hills. Light winds.

Tomorrow, Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers about the northern and eastern suburbs. The chance of a thunderstorm about the nearby hills in the early morning. The chance of morning fog. Light winds becoming south to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the late afternoon then becoming light in the evening.

Temperature	17.4 °C
Feels like	17.4 °C
Wet bulb temp.	15.5 °C
Minimum temp.	17.4 °C	7:50pm
Maximum temp.	19.4 °C	2:29pm
Dew point	14.1 °C
Humidity	81%
Wind	7 km/h
Strongest gust	17 km/h	11:51am
UV index	0.0	Low
Pressure	1022.2 hPa
Rain since 9am	1.4 mm

Observations at 7:50pm.

Radar

UV index

Now measured	Now forecast	Maximum measured	Maximum forecast
0.0	0.0	2.5	7.6
Low	Low	Moderate	Very high
		1:30pm	1:26pm

Moderate or above	Forecast	10:08am–4:45pm
Moderate or above	Measured	1:29pm–1:32pm

Last 72 hours

Today

Dawn	Sunrise	Sunset	Dusk
6:57am	7:22am	7:32pm	7:57pm

Tomorrow

Dawn	Sunrise	Sunset	Dusk
6:58am	7:23am	7:31pm	7:56pm

Recent days

Date	Min.	Max.	Rain
Tue 21 Mar	11.7 °C		0 mm
Mon 20 Mar	14.9 °C	20.8 °C	0 mm
Sun 19 Mar	17.3 °C	19.0 °C	0 mm
Sat 18 Mar	14.6 °C	36.2 °C	0 mm
Fri 17 Mar	15.8 °C	24.6 °C	2.6 mm
Thu 16 Mar	17.3 °C	28.5 °C	0 mm
Wed 15 Mar	17.6 °C	22.9 °C	0 mm
Tue 14 Mar	15.9 °C	30.5 °C	0 mm
Mon 13 Mar	11.7 °C	22.4 °C	0 mm
Sun 12 Mar	15.5 °C	20.7 °C	0 mm
Sat 11 Mar	13.3 °C	24.7 °C	0 mm
Fri 10 Mar	14.5 °C	24.0 °C	0 mm
Thu 9 Mar	12.9 °C	22.1 °C	0 mm
Wed 8 Mar	12.3 °C	19.4 °C	1.0 mm
Tue 7 Mar	15.4 °C	23.2 °C	0 mm
Mon 6 Mar	15.5 °C	25.3 °C	5.6 mm
Sun 5 Mar	16.5 °C	32.9 °C	0 mm
Sat 4 Mar	14.1 °C	31.4 °C	0 mm
Fri 3 Mar	15.5 °C	19.8 °C	0.2 mm
Thu 2 Mar	14.5 °C	21.7 °C	0.8 mm
Wed 1 Mar	14.3 °C	21.1 °C	3.2 mm
Tue 28 Feb	16.5 °C	17.6 °C	0.2 mm
Mon 27 Feb	16.3 °C	20.2 °C	2.6 mm
Sun 26 Feb	15.7 °C	23.4 °C	1.4 mm
Sat 25 Feb	22.2 °C	26.7 °C	0 mm
Fri 24 Feb	19.6 °C	32.3 °C	0 mm
Thu 23 Feb	17.5 °C	32.4 °C	0 mm
Wed 22 Feb	14.6 °C	30.6 °C	0 mm

Next 36 hours

Time	5pm	8pm	11pm	Wed 2am	5am	8am	11am	2pm	5pm	8pm	11pm	Thu 2am
Temperature (°C)	19	17	16	17	16	16	19	22	23	20	17	16
Chance of rain	40%	30%	20%	20%	5%	0%	0%	5%	0%	0%	0%	5%
Median rain (mm)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wind speed (km/h)	9	7	7	6	4	2	4	9	15	15	11	9
Wind direction
Dew point (°C)	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15

Next week summary

	Tomorrow Wed 22 Mar		Thu 23 Mar		Fri 24 Mar		Sat 25 Mar		Sun 26 Mar		Mon 27 Mar		Tue 28 Mar

	Partly cloudy.		Partly cloudy.		Partly cloudy.		Partly cloudy.		Cloudy.		Possible shower.		Shower or two.
Max. (°C)	23		24		21		21		23		21		24
Min. (°C)	16		15		16		15		13		15		16
Any rain	20%		30%		20%		10%		10%		40%		50%
Rain (mm)	0		0–1		0		0		0		0–3		0–10
	8am	2pm	8am	2pm	8am	2pm	8am	2pm	8am	2pm	8am	2pm
Wind (km/h)	2	9	2	7	13	19	15	19	4	9	9	17
Wind dir.
Dew pt. (°C)	15	15	15	15	14	12	11	9	10	11	13	12

Complete forecast

Today, Tuesday 21 March

Shower or two, clearing.

60% chance of rain

Cloudy. High chance of showers, becoming less likely later this evening. The chance of a thunderstorm about the nearby hills. Light winds.

Tomorrow, Wednesday 22 March

Partly cloudy.

Minimum: 16 °C Maximum: 23 °C

20% chance of rain

Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers about the northern and eastern suburbs. The chance of a thunderstorm about the nearby hills in the early morning. The chance of morning fog. Light winds becoming south to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the late afternoon then becoming light in the evening.

Sun protection 10:20am to 4:30pm, UV Index predicted to reach 7 [High]

Thursday 23 March

Partly cloudy.

Minimum: 15 °C Maximum: 24 °C

30% chance of rain 0 to 1 mm

Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers, most likely in the afternoon and early evening. The chance of a thunderstorm in the northern and eastern suburbs in the afternoon and evening. Light winds becoming southerly 15 to 20 km/h in the late afternoon then becoming light in the evening.

Friday 24 March

Partly cloudy.

Minimum: 16 °C Maximum: 21 °C

20% chance of rain

Partly cloudy. The chance of morning fog about the nearby hills. Slight chance of a shower. Winds southerly 20 to 30 km/h.

Saturday 25 March

Partly cloudy.

Minimum: 15 °C Maximum: 21 °C

10% chance of rain

Partly cloudy. Slight chance of a shower in the northwest suburbs, near zero chance elsewhere. Winds southerly 15 to 25 km/h.

Sunday 26 March

Cloudy.

Minimum: 13 °C Maximum: 23 °C

10% chance of rain

Cloudy. Slight chance of a shower later in the day. Light winds becoming south to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h during the day.

Monday 27 March

Possible shower.

Minimum: 15 °C Maximum: 21 °C

40% chance of rain 0 to 3 mm

Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers. Light winds becoming north to northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h during the morning.

Tuesday 28 March

Shower or two.

Minimum: 16 °C Maximum: 24 °C

50% chance of rain 0 to 10 mm

Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers. Winds northerly 20 to 30 km/h.

Issued as 4:20pm. Next forecast at 5:05am.

Climate statistics

Maximum temperature

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean maximum temperature (°C)	26.7	25.9	24.1	20.2	16.4	13.8	13.2	14.4	16.9	19.5	21.9	24.6
Highest temperature (°C)	45.8	47.3	40.7	35.2	26.7	22.6	21.9	24.4	30.3	36.4	41.5	44.4
Date	31 Jan 1968	7 Feb 2009	4 Mar 1942	10 Apr 2005	4 May 1967	8 Jun 2005	18 Jul 2013	27 Aug 2007	12 Sep 2009	12 Oct 2006	21 Nov 2019	20 Dec 2019
Lowest maximum temperature (°C)	14.7	13.9	13.6	10.6	8.4	6.7	6.1	6.8	8.3	10.0	11.3	12.5
Date	2 Jan 1941	18 Feb 1951	22 Mar 1941	21 Apr 1960	27 May 1951	22 Jun 1950	2 Jul 1968	9 Aug 1951	15 Sep 1957	1 Oct 1957	15 Nov 2006	11 Dec 1952
Decile 9 maximum temperature (°C)	36.1	34.1	31.5	26.4	20.3	16.6	15.8	17.8	21.5	26.0	30.0	34.0
Decile 1 maximum temperature (°C)	19.6	19.4	18.2	15.2	12.9	11.2	10.6	11.5	12.8	14.3	15.9	17.8
Mean number of days ≥ 30 °C	8.9	7.0	4.9	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.8	3.1	6.2
Mean number of days ≥ 35 °C	4.0	2.3	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.5	2.3
Mean number of days ≥ 40 °C	0.9	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4
	Chart indicates highest (red), lowest (blue), mean (black) and the range between decile 1 and 9 (yellow).
Minimum temperature

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean minimum temperature (°C)	13.8	14.1	12.7	10.1	7.9	6.1	5.4	5.8	6.9	8.4	10.2	12.0
Lowest temperature (°C)	5.7	5.3	3.7	0.6	0.1	-3.3	-2.6	-2.4	-1.6	-0.3	2.2	4.0
Date	22 Jan 1940	20 Feb 1963	26 Mar 2005	30 Apr 2009	24 May 2008	17 Jun 1969	4 Jul 1963	29 Aug 2018	17 Sep 1949	9 Oct 1939	4 Nov 1970	3 Dec 1955
Highest minimum temperature (°C)	28.8	26.2	25.3	22.5	17.1	13.1	13.2	14.7	18.6	21.3	22.7	26.2
Date	15 Jan 2014	22 Feb 1967	13 Mar 2013	2 Apr 2014	3 May 1942	1 Jun 2013	19 Jul 2013	4 Aug 2011	3 Sep 2021	28 Oct 2007	21 Nov 1959	26 Dec 2016
Decile 9 minimum temperature (°C)	18.2	18.0	17.0	14.1	11.9	9.6	8.8	9.2	10.8	12.8	14.7	16.2
Decile 1 minimum temperature (°C)	9.9	10.0	8.4	6.0	3.8	2.1	1.7	2.3	2.9	4.4	6.1	8.1
Mean number of days ≤ 2 °C	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	2.8	3.6	2.6	1.4	0.3	0.0	0.0
Mean number of days ≤ 0 °C	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.6	1.0	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Rainfall

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean rainfall (mm)	43.7	43.6	39.5	54.6	48.7	40.4	42.7	48.4	50.9	60.4	58.8	51.5
Highest rainfall (mm)	224.1	195.5	154.1	162.7	140.1	115.0	101.9	99.0	113.0	153.6	183.6	152.7
Date	1963	1973	1970	1935	1974	2013	1936	1975	1960	1934	1954	1933
Lowest rainfall (mm)	0.4	0.5	1.9	6.6	3.3	8.0	12.8	14.8	11.0	6.8	7.0	1.3
Date	2009	1965	1948	2019	1934	1974	1979	2011	2008	2006	1937	1972
Decile 9 monthly rainfall (mm)	79.2	100.6	78.7	116.6	83.0	65.5	67.2	72.6	86.1	120.4	110.2	94.2
Decile 5 (median) monthly rainfall (mm)	32.8	32.2	32.9	45.2	47.4	35.1	39.6	46.0	49.0	57.0	48.4	45.2
Decile 1 monthly rainfall (mm)	9.7	3.8	9.2	15.4	16.7	17.7	19.7	24.4	18.4	18.5	25.4	15.6
Highest daily rainfall (mm)	112.8	118.0	67.6	100.0	58.4	68.6	42.7	34.4	54.0	89.4	89.4	52.6
Date	29 Jan 1963	3 Feb 2005	20 Mar 1970	8 Apr 1977	15 May 1974	1 Jun 2013	11 Jul 1933	17 Aug 1983	13 Sep 1977	16 Oct 1983	19 Nov 1978	15 Dec 1933
Mean number of days of rain	7.4	7.3	8.8	11.0	13.3	13.6	15.2	15.7	14.3	13.1	11.8	10.1
Mean number of days of rain ≥ 1 mm	4.4	4.2	5.2	6.8	7.4	7.2	7.6	8.8	8.1	7.8	7.0	6.1
Mean number of days of rain ≥ 10 mm	1.2	1.1	0.9	1.5	1.2	0.8	0.6	0.8	1.1	1.5	1.5	1.4
Mean number of days of rain ≥ 25 mm	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3
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	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean daily wind run (km)	404	383	366	323	344	334	388	410	412	393	396	402
Maximum wind gust speed (km/h)	117	117	115	108	100	106	124	130	147	121	115	122
Date	4 Jan 1946	28 Feb 1957	24 Mar 1941	8 Apr 1966	17 May 1940	10 Jun 1947	1 Jul 1942	4 Aug 1947	6 Sep 1948	21 Oct 1948	12 Nov 1946	30 Dec 1947
Mean daily solar exposure (MJ/m²)	24.1	20.9	16.4	11.2	7.7	6.3	7.1	9.9	13.4	17.8	21.2	23.9
Mean number of clear days	6.6	5.7	6.4	4.1	3.2	3.1	2.8	3.2	4.0	3.6	3.1	4.7
Mean number of cloudy days	11.0	10.7	12.3	14.8	18.0	17.1	17.0	15.3	14.4	17.0	16.9	14.3
9 am conditions
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean temperature (°C)	19.1	18.7	17.1	14.1	10.8	8.5	7.8	8.9	11.4	13.8	15.7	17.8
Mean wet bulb temperature (°C)	14.5	14.8	13.6	11.5	9.2	7.3	6.5	7.3	8.9	10.5	12.0	13.3
Mean dew point temperature (°C)	10.6	11.9	10.7	9.1	7.6	6.0	5.1	5.5	6.3	7.3	8.3	9.5
Mean relative humidity (%)	60	66	68	72	81	84	83	79	72	66	63	61
Mean cloud cover (oktas)	5.0	5.1	5.0	5.4	5.5	5.6	5.4	5.2	5.1	5.6	5.9	5.4
Mean wind speed (km/h)	17.9	16.6	15.8	15.0	15.0	15.6	17.5	18.5	20.9	20.9	20.0	18.5
3 pm conditions
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean temperature (°C)	24.2	23.8	22.4	18.7	15.1	12.7	11.9	13.1	15.3	17.5	19.9	22.3
Mean wet bulb temperature (°C)	16.5	16.7	15.8	13.5	11.4	9.8	9.0	9.5	10.9	12.3	13.9	15.2
Mean dew point temperature (°C)	10.3	11.4	10.1	8.6	7.6	6.6	5.6	5.6	6.2	7.3	8.2	9.0
Mean relative humidity (%)	46	49	48	53	62	67	66	62	57	54	50	47
Mean cloud cover (oktas)	4.1	4.4	4.6	5.4	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.5	5.4	5.5	5.5	4.9
Mean wind speed (km/h)	23.6	21.6	20.4	20.1	19.8	19.9	22.0	23.1	23.8	23.3	23.1	23.5

Climate statistics for Essendon Airport.

More details and data sources:

Notes:

The four temperatures:
- Temperature: The ambient air temperature.
- Feels like: Based on temperature, humidity and wind chill (but not the sun), this is meant to be the temperature it feels like for an adult walking in the shade if there is no wind and at a standardised humidity level.
- Dew point: The relative humidity would be 100% (i.e., unable to hold more water vapour) if the air was cooled to this temperature. This is an absolute measure of humidity.
- Wet bulb temperature: The temperature if a wet thermometer had air moving over it (evaporative cooling), so it depends on temperature and humidity. Useful because people cool the same way.
Current observations: The little charts show the last six hours at half hour intervals. Hover over with your mouse to see details. UV index is average of last five minutes.
Radar: Click on to go to BOM radar. Pause with the button above.
UV index: Blue line is five minute average. Shaded area indicates range of measured values. Now measured is average of last five minutes (the range is also shown if not small).
Sunrise and sunset: Dawn and dusk are for the start and end of civil twilight.
Recent days: Rain is the total in the 24 hours up to 9am. Minimum is in 24 hours to 9am. Maximum is in 24 hours from 9am.
Last 72 hours: Most values are the value at the time shown. Rain is the amount of rain in the previous 30 minutes from the time shown. Wind direction is shown for every two hours (all values are shown on hover).
Next 36 hours: Most values are what are expected at the time indicated, while rain forecasts are for the three hours beginning at that time. Median rain means there's a 50% chance of more rain than the given number.
Climate statistics: 80% of the time the value is in the yellow area on the chart. The top 10% fall above it and bottom 10% fall below. Daily wind run is effectively the amount of wind that blows past (i.e., average speed times 24 hours). Cloud cover is measured in oktas, which ranges between 0 (completely clear sky) and 8 (completely overcast).