Melbourne weather

Melbourne

Now: 17.3 °C Today: 28 °C Partly cloudy. Tonight: 16 °C Tomorrow: 24 °C Late shower or two.

Today, Tuesday: Partly cloudy. Slight chance of a shower about the nearby hills this afternoon. Near zero chance of rain elsewhere. The chance of a thunderstorm during this afternoon and early evening. Winds west to southwesterly 15 to 20 km/h becoming light in the early morning then becoming southeast to southwesterly 15 to 25 km/h in the middle of the day.

Temperature	17.3 °C
Feels like	18.4 °C
Wet bulb temp.	15.2 °C
Minimum temp.	16.9 °C	4:47am
Maximum temp.	31.3 °C	1:18pm
Dew point	13.6 °C
Humidity	79%
Wind	0 km/h
Strongest gust	7 km/h	4:51am
UV index	0.0	Low
Pressure	1008.9 hPa
Rain since 9am	0.0 mm

Melbourne (Olympic Park) at 5:00am.

Aurora watch

Radar

UV index

Now measured	Now forecast	Maximum measured	Maximum forecast
0.0	0.0	9.7	9.7
Low	Low	Very high	Very high
		2:09pm	1:29pm

Moderate or above	Forecast	9:22am–5:39pm
Moderate or above	Measured	9:23am–5:14pm

Last 72 hours

Today

Dawn	Sunrise	Sunset	Dusk
5:50am	6:18am	8:43pm	9:11pm

Tomorrow

Dawn	Sunrise	Sunset	Dusk
5:51am	6:19am	8:42pm	9:11pm

Recent days

Date	Min.	Max.	Rain
Mon 19 Jan	16.8 °C		0 mm
Sun 18 Jan	15.2 °C	29.0 °C	0 mm
Sat 17 Jan	17.1 °C	27.5 °C	0 mm
Fri 16 Jan	17.5 °C	25.5 °C	0 mm
Thu 15 Jan	15.9 °C	26.3 °C	0 mm
Wed 14 Jan	17.0 °C	27.5 °C	0 mm
Tue 13 Jan	15.3 °C	20.5 °C	0 mm
Mon 12 Jan	11.5 °C	21.9 °C	0 mm
Sun 11 Jan	14.8 °C	19.1 °C	0 mm
Sat 10 Jan	17.5 °C	24.5 °C	0.2 mm
Fri 9 Jan	18.4 °C	42.9 °C	0 mm
Thu 8 Jan	22.0 °C	30.9 °C	0 mm
Wed 7 Jan	17.6 °C	41.1 °C	0 mm
Tue 6 Jan	13.8 °C	30.8 °C	0 mm
Mon 5 Jan	14.3 °C	20.6 °C	0 mm
Sun 4 Jan	17.1 °C	20.1 °C	0 mm
Sat 3 Jan	15.7 °C	32.4 °C	0 mm
Fri 2 Jan	12.6 °C	25.1 °C	0 mm
Thu 1 Jan	14.2 °C	20.2 °C	0 mm
Wed 31 Dec	13.6 °C	18.1 °C	0 mm
Tue 30 Dec	19.8 °C	33.3 °C	0 mm
Mon 29 Dec	14.0 °C	35.0 °C	0 mm
Sun 28 Dec	10.9 °C	29.0 °C	0 mm
Sat 27 Dec	11.1 °C	20.0 °C	0 mm
Fri 26 Dec	12.5 °C	17.1 °C	0 mm
Thu 25 Dec	12.1 °C	17.3 °C	0 mm
Wed 24 Dec	13.4 °C	20.0 °C	0 mm
Tue 23 Dec	13.1 °C	20.3 °C	0 mm

Space weather

Aurora watch

Northern limit: southern Queensland (K_aus 8)

A coronal mass ejection is expected to impact the Earth within the next 48 hours, possibly resulting in significant geomagnetic activity and visible auroras during local nighttime hours. Aurora alerts will follow if significant geomagnetic activity actually occurs.

K_aus seven day history

Next 36 hours

Time	5am	8am	11am	2pm	5pm	8pm	11pm	Wed 2am	5am	8am	11am	2pm
Temperature (°C)	19	19	23	26	28	26	22	18	17	17	21	24
Chance of rain	5%	0%	10%	10%	10%	0%	0%	0%	5%	10%	0%	0%
Median rain (mm)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wind speed (km/h)	13	7	11	19	20	20	19	19	17	17	15	26
Wind direction
Dew point (°C)	14	15	15	15	14	15	13	14	14	14	13	12

Next week summary

	Today Tue 20 Jan		Wed 21 Jan		Thu 22 Jan		Fri 23 Jan		Sat 24 Jan		Sun 25 Jan		Mon 26 Jan

	Partly cloudy.		Late shower or two.		Partly cloudy.		Sunny.		Sunny.		Partly cloudy.		Sunny.
Max. (°C)	28		24		20		27		38		30		31
Min. (°C)	-		16		15		13		17		20		16
Any rain	10%		50%		30%		0%		20%		20%		20%
Rain (mm)	0		0–2		0–1		0		0		0		0
	8am	2pm	8am	2pm	8am	2pm	8am	2pm	8am	2pm	8am	2pm	8am	2pm
Wind (km/h)	7	19	17	26	26	28	7	13	13	20	20	24	13	19
Wind dir.
Dew pt. (°C)	15	15	14	12	7	6	9	10	8	6	12	12	13	12

Complete forecast

Today, Tuesday 20 January

Partly cloudy.

Maximum: 28 °C

10% chance of rain

Partly cloudy. Slight chance of a shower about the nearby hills this afternoon. Near zero chance of rain elsewhere. The chance of a thunderstorm during this afternoon and early evening. Winds west to southwesterly 15 to 20 km/h becoming light in the early morning then becoming southeast to southwesterly 15 to 25 km/h in the middle of the day.

Sun protection 9:20am to 5:40pm, UV Index predicted to reach 11 [Extreme]

Tomorrow, Wednesday 21 January

Late shower or two.

Minimum: 16 °C Maximum: 24 °C

50% chance of rain 0 to 2 mm

Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers in the evening. Winds south to southwesterly 20 to 30 km/h.

Thursday 22 January

Partly cloudy.

Minimum: 15 °C Maximum: 20 °C

30% chance of rain 0 to 1 mm

Slight chance of a shower in the morning. Mostly sunny afternoon. Winds southerly 25 to 35 km/h.

Friday 23 January

Sunny.

Minimum: 13 °C Maximum: 27 °C

0% chance of rain

Sunny. Winds south to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h becoming light during the morning then becoming southeast to southwesterly 15 to 25 km/h during the afternoon.

Saturday 24 January

Sunny.

Minimum: 17 °C Maximum: 38 °C

20% chance of rain

Mostly sunny. Slight chance of a shower. The chance of a thunderstorm later in the day. Winds northwest to northeasterly 25 to 35 km/h tending west to northwesterly 20 to 30 km/h during the day.

Sunday 25 January

Partly cloudy.

Minimum: 20 °C Maximum: 30 °C

20% chance of rain

Partly cloudy. Slight chance of a shower. The chance of a thunderstorm. Winds northwest to northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h tending southeast to southwesterly 20 to 30 km/h during the morning.

Monday 26 January

Sunny.

Minimum: 16 °C Maximum: 31 °C

20% chance of rain

Mostly sunny. Slight chance of a shower. The chance of a thunderstorm later in the day. Light winds becoming south to southwesterly 15 to 25 km/h during the morning.

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

Weather situation

A high pressure system centred over the southern Tasman Sea will move away to the southeast today. A low pressure trough over western districts will move slowly northeastwards mid week. Another high develops over waters south of the Bight and extends a ridge over Victoria later in the week.

Climate statistics

Maximum temperature

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean maximum temperature (°C)	26.7	25.9	24.2	20.3	16.4	13.8	13.2	14.5	17.0	19.5	22.0	24.7
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	20 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	34.4	31.6	26.4	20.4	16.6	15.8	17.8	21.7	26.0	30.0	33.9
Decile 1 maximum temperature (°C)	19.6	19.4	18.3	15.3	12.9	11.2	10.6	11.5	12.8	14.4	15.9	17.8
	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)	13.9	14.1	12.8	10.1	7.9	6.1	5.5	5.9	7.0	8.5	10.3	12.1
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	26.1	22.5	17.1	14.3	13.2	14.7	18.6	21.3	23.0	26.2
Date	15 Jan 2014	22 Feb 1967	10 Mar 2024	2 Apr 2014	3 May 1942	7 Jun 2023	19 Jul 2013	4 Aug 2011	3 Sep 2021	28 Oct 2007	23 Nov 2024	26 Dec 2016
Decile 9 minimum temperature (°C)	18.2	18.1	17.0	14.2	11.9	9.6	8.8	9.2	10.9	12.8	14.7	16.2
Decile 1 minimum temperature (°C)	9.8	10.1	8.6	6.1	3.8	2.1	1.7	2.3	3.0	4.4	6.1	8.2
Rainfall
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean rainfall (mm)	44.6	42.9	39.0	55.2	48.5	40.4	42.6	47.6	49.8	60.0	59.4	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	10.2	6.8	7.0	1.3
Date	2009	1965	1948	2019	1934	1974	1979	2011	2023	2006	1937	1972
Decile 5 (median) monthly rainfall (mm)	80.0	96.8	77.5	114.7	82.6	65.0	67.4	72.5	85.7	117.6	111.0	93.3
Decile 1 monthly rainfall (mm)	10.3	3.6	8.8	15.5	17.0	17.7	19.6	22.4	16.9	18.6	26.3	15.8
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	8.9	11.0	13.3	13.5	15.2	15.6	14.3	13.1	11.8	10.2
Mean number of days of rain ≥ 1 mm	4.4	4.1	5.2	6.8	7.4	7.3	7.7	8.7	8.0	7.8	7.1	6.2
Mean number of days of rain ≥ 10 mm	1.3	1.1	0.9	1.5	1.2	0.8	0.7	0.8	1.0	1.5	1.6	1.4
Mean number of days of rain ≥ 25 mm	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3
More
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean daily wind run (km)	404	388	368	325	341	334	391	409	414	396	396	404
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	21.0	16.3	11.2	7.8	6.4	7.1	10.0	13.4	17.8	21.2	23.8
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 since 1929.

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: This is shown as a chart for the major cities that have minute-by-minute forecasts and observations and as a table when there is only an hourly forecast.
UV index (chart): Blue line is five minute average. Shaded area indicates range of measured values. If there is a lot of variation, now measured is average of last five minutes and the range is also shown.
UV index (table): Forecast assumes a clear sky. Rows are highlighted if the forecast is for within 45 minutes of the current time.
Sunrise and sunset: Dawn and dusk are for the start and end of civil twilight (the sun is 6° below the horizon).
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.
Space weather: K_aus is the K-index for Australia, a number between 0 and 9 indicating the level of magnetic field disturbance. 5+ are classed as geomagnetic storms. Aurora alerts and watch notices are also shown at the top of page if potentially visible from the current location.
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).