Weather in Bathurst in July

Shoulder season. July is shoulder season in Bathurst — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs sit at 11.8 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

July ranks 12 of 12 — near the bottom of Bathurst's year. April is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 29 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 8 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 11.8 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 3 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest July day reached 19.5 °C and the coldest night fell to -2.5 °C.

July is moderately variable: 4 mm in the driest year against 91 mm in the wettest, around an average of 40 mm. Roughly two Julys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 2.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, which at 11.8 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How July sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 12.6 °C in June, 11.8 here, 13.3 in August. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in July

July sits at the dark end of Bathurst's year — 10.1 hours of daylight against 14.3 at midsummer, gaining 0.5 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 27.5 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

July in Bathurst versus nearby

If Bathurst is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Katoomba is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Dubbo is a better bet in July — 3.9 °C warmer, 2 days less rain.

So: July is a compromise. April is 29 points better and is what Bathurst is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Bathurst

See all twelve months in Bathurst, or where else to go in July.