Best time to visit Alice Springs

Alice Springs is a city of two halves. August scores 98 and January scores 30 — a 68-point swing, which is the difference between a holiday and an endurance test. The month you pick matters more here than almost anywhere. The good window runs May to August — 4 months within ten points of the best.

January is the warmest month at 37.8 °C and June the coolest at 21.2 °C — a 16.6 °C spread across the year. 205 days a year top 30 °C, more than a third of the calendar, so heat is the baseline here rather than a season.

There is a real wet season here. January and December carry the rain — up to 8 wet days in a month — while April to September drop as low as 1. That 7-day gap is the biggest single difference between a good month and a bad one in Alice Springs, and it moves further than the temperature does.

Daylight runs from 10.7 hours in winter to 13.6 in summer, enough to notice on a sightseeing itinerary.

The three strongest months are August, May, June. The one to think twice about is January. Each month below has its own page with rainfall reliability, extremes, daylight and crowd levels.

Alice Springs month by month