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Gold Coast weather

Queensland · 640,778 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 04:07

Air: Fair Moderate storm risk · Sun, Mon, Tue

19°

Mainly clear

Feels like 19°C

Wind

7 km/h

Gusts

15 km/h

Humidity

76 %

Pressure

1024 hPa

Clouds

26 %

Storm

Rise 04:56 Set 18:03 Day 13 h 7 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Mainly clear

19°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ SSE 11 km/h

Humidity 76 %

Morning

Mainly clear

22°19°

Feels like 26°

Wind ↑ S 11 km/h

Humidity 67 %

Afternoon

Mainly clear

22°21°

Feels like 27°

Wind ↑ E 15 km/h

Humidity 66 %

Evening

Partly cloudy

22°21°

Feels like 26°

Wind ↑ ENE 15 km/h

Humidity 70 %

10:00

22°

ESE 9

13:00

21°

E 15

16:00

22°

E 15

19:00

21°

ENE 15

22:00

22°

NE 8

01:00

19°

NNW 1

04:00

21°

NNE 5

07:00

20°

NE 1

Gold Coast forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Gold Coast climate: what a normal year looks like

Swimmers find the warmest sea in February (26 °C) and the coolest in August (21 °C).

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 11 °C.

From 10 h 21 min of daylight in late June to 13 h 55 min in late December.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 25 °C, against a usual 25 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	27 °C	21 °C	136 mm	26 °C
Feb	27 °C	21 °C	141 mm	27 °C
Mar	26 °C	20 °C	105 mm	26 °C
Apr	24 °C	17 °C	57 mm	25 °C
May	22 °C	14 °C	73 mm	24 °C
Jun	20 °C	12 °C	70 mm	22 °C
Jul	20 °C	11 °C	34 mm	21 °C
Aug	21 °C	11 °C	40 mm	21 °C
Sep	23 °C	13 °C	40 mm	21 °C
Oct	25 °C	16 °C	76 mm	22 °C
Nov	25 °C	18 °C	86 mm	24 °C
Dec	26 °C	20 °C	121 mm	25 °C
Whole year	24 °C	16 °C	980 mm	24 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 28.00° S, 153.43° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Gold Coast: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.511µg/m³

PM1016µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Gold Coast

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Gold Coast, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Gold Coast yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Gold Coast

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 15:26 Set 00:58

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Wed 11/11 3%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Australia/Brisbane); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Gold Coast

Tide station used: Gold Coast Southport · 4 km away

🌊 Sea surface

22.0 °C

satellite, 30/10

Sea state

Smooth

waves 0.7 m

Period

8 s

Swell

0.7 m

ThuThu 29/10

High tide 10:24 1.8 m

Low tide 17:04 0.3 m

High tide 22:43 1.1 m

TodayFri 30/10

Low tide 04:33 0.2 m

High tide 11:16 1.8 m

Low tide 18:02 0.3 m

High tide 23:37 1.1 m

TomorrowSat 31/10

Low tide 05:23 0.3 m

High tide 12:11 1.7 m

Low tide 19:10 0.4 m

SunSun 01/11

High tide 00:38 1.0 m

Low tide 06:19 0.4 m

High tide 13:17 1.6 m

Low tide 20:33 0.4 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Gold Coast

Curious about the weather in Gold Coast on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Gold Coast weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Gold Coast, Queensland: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 19 °C (feels like 19 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 22 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms, plus the tide times for Gold Coast Southport.

Other big cities nearby

Logan City 51 km 15°

Brisbane 71 km 16°

Sunshine Coast 153 km 17°

Gold Coast weather data for developers

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations