Best time to visit Australia
46 destinations
Australia does not have a single best season. Its 46 destinations peak across 11 different months, which means an itinerary that moves around the country will be in the right season for some of it and the wrong one for the rest — worth building the route around.
Averaged across every destination listed, Australia is at its best in April, scoring 81 out of 100, with May close behind at 79. January is the weakest month nationally at 66. The workable window is wide — 7 months sit within eight points of the best — so a trip covering several of these places has room to move.
Australia is not one climate. Broome averages 35 °C across the year against 16 °C in Devonport — a 19 °C gap wide enough that advice for one is close to useless for the other. Rain splits the country further: Cairns sees 172 wet days a year against 40 in Alice Springs, which is a different kind of trip rather than a slightly damper one.