Sydney weather

Sydney

Now: 16.4 °C Today: 20 °C Mostly sunny. Tonight: 12 °C Tomorrow: 20 °C Shower or two.

Today, Wednesday: Mostly sunny. Slight chance of a shower along the coastal fringe at night. Near zero chance of rain elsewhere. Winds southwesterly 15 to 20 km/h tending southerly 15 to 25 km/h in the early afternoon then becoming light in the evening.

Temperature	16.4 °C
Feels like	13.2 °C
Wet bulb temp.	12.4 °C
Minimum temp.	13.2 °C	2:11am
Maximum temp.	16.6 °C	9:38am
Dew point	8.6 °C
Humidity	60%
Wind	15 km/h
Strongest gust	37 km/h	5:44am
UV index	1.7	Low
Pressure	1018.2 hPa
Rain since 9am	0.0 mm

Sydney Airport at 9:40am.

Radar

UV index

Now measured	Now forecast	Maximum measured	Maximum forecast
1.7	1.8	1.7	2.9
Low	Low	Low	Moderate
		9:51am	11:52am

Moderate or above	Forecast	10:47am–12:57pm
Moderate or above	Measured	–

Last 72 hours

Today

Dawn	Sunrise	Sunset	Dusk
6:17am	6:43am	5:01pm	5:26pm

Tomorrow

Dawn	Sunrise	Sunset	Dusk
6:18am	6:43am	5:00pm	5:26pm

Recent days

Date	Min.	Max.	Rain
Tue 19 May	16.3 °C		10.0 mm
Mon 18 May	16.1 °C	19.1 °C	0.2 mm
Sun 17 May	16.4 °C	20.3 °C	1.2 mm
Sat 16 May	14.8 °C	23.3 °C	0.2 mm
Fri 15 May	14.2 °C	22.1 °C	12.6 mm
Thu 14 May	14.1 °C	22.2 °C	1.4 mm
Wed 13 May	15.9 °C	20.5 °C	4.0 mm
Tue 12 May	14.8 °C	21.8 °C	2.0 mm
Mon 11 May	13.6 °C	23.6 °C	2.2 mm
Sun 10 May	11.5 °C	23.7 °C	0 mm
Sat 9 May	12.4 °C	22.6 °C	0 mm
Fri 8 May	9.9 °C	21.3 °C	0 mm
Thu 7 May	12.2 °C	18.7 °C	0 mm
Wed 6 May	12.5 °C	24.6 °C	0 mm
Tue 5 May	14.2 °C	23.7 °C	1.6 mm
Mon 4 May	18.2 °C	21.8 °C	0 mm
Sun 3 May	18.1 °C	25.9 °C	0.2 mm
Sat 2 May	17.3 °C	24.9 °C	0.2 mm
Fri 1 May	15.6 °C	24.7 °C	0.2 mm
Thu 30 Apr	16.1 °C	25.0 °C	2.8 mm
Wed 29 Apr	13.7 °C	25.6 °C	0 mm
Tue 28 Apr	14.0 °C	24.4 °C	0 mm
Mon 27 Apr	12.5 °C	24.7 °C	0 mm
Sun 26 Apr	14.2 °C	24.5 °C	0 mm
Sat 25 Apr	14.8 °C	25.3 °C	0 mm
Fri 24 Apr	14.5 °C	23.7 °C	0 mm
Thu 23 Apr	13.8 °C	23.8 °C	0 mm
Wed 22 Apr	14.6 °C	23.3 °C	1.6 mm

Space weather

K_aus seven day history

Next 36 hours

Time	10am	1pm	4pm	7pm	10pm	Thu 1am	4am	7am	10am	1pm	4pm	7pm
Temperature (°C)	16	20	19	16	14	13	12	13	17	20	19	17
Chance of rain	5%	0%	5%	5%	10%	20%	20%	20%	20%	30%	50%	70%
Median rain (mm)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Wind speed (km/h)	28	28	28	17	17	19	20	20	22	28	28	22
Wind direction
Dew point (°C)	9	7	8	9	7	7	8	9	11	12	12	12

Next week summary

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

	Mostly sunny.		Shower or two.		Showers easing.		Showers.		Shower or two.		Shower or two.		Shower or two.
Max. (°C)	20		20		21		21		23		21		18
Min. (°C)	-		12		14		16		15		13		11
Any rain	20%		70%		80%		90%		50%		70%		70%
Rain (mm)	0		0–6		0–4		1–8		0–1		0–8		0–10
	7am	1pm	7am	1pm	7am	1pm	7am	1pm	7am	1pm	7am	1pm	7am	1pm
Wind (km/h)	-	28	20	28	20	33	17	22	9	9	13	17	17	20
Wind dir.	-
Dew pt. (°C)	-	7	9	12	12	12	13	14	13	14	12	13	9	10

Complete forecast

Today, Wednesday 20 May

Mostly sunny.

Maximum: 20 °C

20% chance of rain

Mostly sunny. Slight chance of a shower along the coastal fringe at night. Near zero chance of rain elsewhere. Winds southwesterly 15 to 20 km/h tending southerly 15 to 25 km/h in the early afternoon then becoming light in the evening.

Sun protection 11:00am to 12:20pm, UV Index predicted to reach 3 [Moderate]

Tomorrow, Thursday 21 May

Shower or two.

Minimum: 12 °C Maximum: 20 °C

70% chance of rain 0 to 6 mm

Partly cloudy. High chance of showers along the coastal fringe, medium chance elsewhere. Winds south to southwesterly 20 to 30 km/h.

Friday 22 May

Showers easing.

Minimum: 14 °C Maximum: 21 °C

80% chance of rain 0 to 4 mm

Cloudy. High chance of showers, most likely in the morning and afternoon. Winds southwesterly 15 to 20 km/h turning southerly 20 to 30 km/h during the morning.

Saturday 23 May

Showers.

Minimum: 16 °C Maximum: 21 °C

90% chance of rain 1 to 8 mm

Cloudy. High chance of showers. Winds south to southwesterly 15 to 20 km/h tending south to southeasterly during the day then becoming light during the evening.

Sunday 24 May

Shower or two.

Minimum: 15 °C Maximum: 23 °C

50% chance of rain 0 to 1 mm

Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers. Light winds.

Monday 25 May

Shower or two.

Minimum: 13 °C Maximum: 21 °C

70% chance of rain 0 to 8 mm

Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers, most likely later in the day. Winds west to southwesterly 15 to 20 km/h tending south to southwesterly during the day.

Tuesday 26 May

Shower or two.

Minimum: 11 °C Maximum: 18 °C

70% chance of rain 0 to 10 mm

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

Issued as 9:46am. Next forecast at 4:20pm.

Weather situation

A high pressure ridge establishing in the area during today with a trough and low pressure system further offshore and remaining over the Tasman Sea for the next several days, whipping fresh to strong southerly winds and large powerful waves to the coastline. A high pressure system is forecast to drift across southeast Australia mid to late this week, bringing generally dry and stable weather patterns to the state's west.

Climate statistics

Maximum temperature

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean maximum temperature (°C)	26.8	26.5	25.5	23.1	20.2	17.7	17.2	18.5	20.8	22.8	24.3	26.0
Highest temperature (°C)	46.4	42.9	41.2	36.8	30.0	26.8	27.0	31.6	35.9	39.1	43.4	43.5
Date	18 Jan 2013	10 Feb 2017	9 Mar 1983	9 Apr 2018	13 May 1957	5 Jun 1958	30 Jul 2017	30 Aug 2024	19 Sep 2023	13 Oct 2004	25 Nov 1982	9 Dec 2023
Lowest maximum temperature (°C)	17.7	17.7	17.3	14.6	12.7	11.3	9.7	9.1	12.8	13.4	13.1	17.0
Date	14 Jan 1948	5 Feb 1950	31 Mar 1945	21 Apr 1949	27 May 1987	21 Jun 1995	3 Jul 1984	21 Aug 1962	1 Sep 1945	3 Oct 1967	16 Nov 1988	10 Dec 2002
Decile 9 maximum temperature (°C)	31.4	31.0	29.4	27.1	23.5	20.5	20.2	22.2	25.9	29.0	30.0	31.8
Decile 1 maximum temperature (°C)	22.1	22.2	21.5	19.1	16.8	14.9	14.2	14.7	16.1	17.5	19.1	20.8
	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)	19.0	19.2	17.7	14.4	11.1	8.8	7.4	8.4	10.7	13.5	15.6	17.7
Lowest temperature (°C)	9.7	11.2	7.4	6.1	3.0	1.0	-0.1	1.2	2.3	4.8	5.9	8.2
Date	18 Jan 1949	24 Feb 1964	24 Mar 1967	21 Apr 1965	22 May 1965	21 Jun 1961	23 Jul 1943	9 Aug 1960	1 Sep 1967	8 Oct 1966	15 Nov 1949	7 Dec 1943
Highest minimum temperature (°C)	26.1	26.4	23.7	23.1	19.3	16.8	16.6	19.3	21.8	25.5	25.3	27.5
Date	18 Jan 2017	6 Feb 2011	30 Mar 2017	14 Apr 2018	3 May 2019	9 Jun 1951	31 Jul 1975	12 Aug 1946	24 Sep 2017	3 Oct 1981	14 Nov 1996	14 Dec 2016
Decile 9 minimum temperature (°C)	21.6	21.8	20.5	17.7	14.8	12.7	10.8	11.9	14.4	17.0	18.8	20.4
Decile 1 minimum temperature (°C)	16.0	16.1	14.2	10.3	7.2	5.1	3.9	4.9	6.7	9.4	11.7	14.2
Rainfall
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean rainfall (mm)	95.0	117.6	122.9	107.8	98.5	124.1	72.5	77.6	60.4	70.7	80.6	72.5
Highest rainfall (mm)	400.4	596.9	489.4	476.2	421.7	465.9	344.2	396.6	249.4	271.3	396.1	359.2
Date	1972	1956	2022	1988	1943	1950	2022	1998	1995	1959	1961	1963
Lowest rainfall (mm)	5.4	2.5	6.4	7.8	2.9	2.5	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.0	5.7	0.8
Date	1942	1939	1965	1997	1957	1962	1970	1995	2017	1988	1956	2019
Decile 5 (median) monthly rainfall (mm)	178.9	256.5	277.6	226.8	196.1	282.1	155.1	182.1	128.6	171.3	144.2	148.9
Decile 1 monthly rainfall (mm)	26.7	24.4	33.4	20.6	16.5	24.5	12.8	7.6	10.9	14.7	16.9	19.4
Highest daily rainfall (mm)	157.0	216.2	202.0	174.0	165.9	151.2	132.6	207.0	115.4	112.3	143.3	182.1
Date	8 Jan 1973	3 Feb 1990	11 Mar 1975	30 Apr 1988	1 May 1955	11 Jun 1991	10 Jul 1957	6 Aug 1986	25 Sep 1995	30 Oct 1959	14 Nov 1969	13 Dec 1963
Mean number of days of rain	11.5	11.6	12.7	11.1	10.9	11.2	9.4	9.1	9.3	10.7	11.3	10.6
Mean number of days of rain ≥ 1 mm	8.3	8.7	9.6	8.5	8.3	8.7	6.8	6.8	6.8	7.8	8.2	7.7
Mean number of days of rain ≥ 10 mm	2.7	3.0	3.5	2.9	2.8	3.5	2.1	2.0	1.6	2.0	2.4	2.2
Mean number of days of rain ≥ 25 mm	0.9	1.2	1.3	1.3	1.1	1.5	0.6	0.8	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6
More
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean daily wind run (km)	517	488	456	423	415	428	426	441	464	479	516	515
Maximum wind gust speed (km/h)	152	108	128	122	130	130	109	115	111	126	152	126
Date	15 Jan 1949	18 Feb 1962	27 Mar 1942	8 Apr 1945	26 May 1974	4 Jun 1949	28 Jul 1947	7 Aug 1998	30 Sep 1968	28 Oct 1948	23 Nov 1975	20 Dec 1941
Mean daily solar exposure (MJ/m²)	22.8	20.2	16.8	13.5	10.4	8.7	9.9	13.0	16.9	20.0	21.7	23.5
Mean number of clear days	6.8	5.5	7.7	8.8	9.3	9.1	12.0	13.2	11.0	8.2	6.4	6.5
Mean number of cloudy days	13.0	12.2	12.0	10.6	10.8	10.7	8.5	7.7	8.4	11.1	11.9	12.3
9 am conditions
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean temperature (°C)	22.4	22.3	21.1	18.2	14.6	11.9	10.8	12.5	15.7	18.4	19.9	21.6
Mean wet bulb temperature (°C)	18.8	19.1	18.0	15.2	12.1	9.7	8.4	9.5	11.8	14.1	15.8	17.6
Mean dew point temperature (°C)	16.4	17.1	15.8	12.7	9.6	7.2	5.4	5.8	7.8	10.2	12.4	14.6
Mean relative humidity (%)	70	73	73	71	73	74	71	65	62	61	64	66
Mean cloud cover (oktas)	5.0	5.2	4.6	4.2	4.0	4.0	3.4	3.2	3.6	4.4	4.7	4.9
Mean wind speed (km/h)	14.4	13.8	12.9	12.9	12.6	13.4	13.3	14.4	15.5	16.3	16.0	14.8
3 pm conditions
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean temperature (°C)	24.8	24.8	23.9	21.7	19.0	16.6	16.1	17.2	19.0	20.7	22.1	23.9
Mean wet bulb temperature (°C)	19.6	19.9	18.9	16.7	14.3	12.3	11.2	11.7	13.3	15.0	16.7	18.4
Mean dew point temperature (°C)	16.2	16.8	15.5	12.7	9.9	7.6	5.6	5.5	7.7	9.9	12.3	14.3
Mean relative humidity (%)	60	63	61	59	58	57	52	49	51	54	56	58
Mean cloud cover (oktas)	4.5	4.6	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.4	3.8	3.6	3.8	4.4	4.6	4.5
Mean wind speed (km/h)	24.1	23.0	21.0	19.3	17.1	17.8	18.2	20.8	23.1	24.6	25.3	25.2

Climate statistics for Sydney 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).