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Melbourne weather

Victoria · 5,435,590 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 03:03

Air: Good Low storm risk · Tomorrow

11°

Clear sky

Feels like 11°C

Wind

5 km/h

Gusts

5 km/h

Humidity

91 %

Pressure

1025 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 06:15 Set 19:52 Day 13 h 36 min UV 8 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Mainly clear

10°8°

Feels like 10°

Wind ↑ ENE 4 km/h

Humidity 94 %

Morning

Mainly clear

18°11°

Feels like 18°

Wind ↑ NE 6 km/h

Gusts 14 km/h

Humidity 66 %

Afternoon

Partly cloudy

26°25°

Feels like 26°

Wind ↑ NNW 18 km/h

Gusts 24 km/h

Humidity 30 %

Evening

Partly cloudy

20°18°

Feels like 20°

Wind ↑ NNE 13 km/h

Humidity 51 %

11:00

18°

NE 4

14:00

26°

NNW 18

17:00

25°

N 16

20:00

20°

N 5

23:00

18°

NNE 13

02:00

16°

NNE 9

05:00

19°

N 19

08:00

20°

N 25

Melbourne 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)

Melbourne climate: what a normal year looks like

Swimmers find the warmest sea in February (20 °C) and the coolest in August (12 °C).

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 25 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 7 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 640 mm of rain — less than 79% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

From 9 h 32 min of daylight in late June to 14 h 47 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 21 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (19 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	25 °C	14 °C	51 mm	19 °C
Feb	25 °C	15 °C	47 mm	20 °C
Mar	23 °C	13 °C	37 mm	19 °C
Apr	20 °C	10 °C	50 mm	17 °C
May	16 °C	9 °C	47 mm	16 °C
Jun	14 °C	7 °C	53 mm	14 °C
Jul	13 °C	7 °C	48 mm	12 °C
Aug	14 °C	7 °C	55 mm	12 °C
Sep	16 °C	7 °C	65 mm	13 °C
Oct	19 °C	9 °C	64 mm	14 °C
Nov	21 °C	11 °C	65 mm	16 °C
Dec	23 °C	12 °C	62 mm	18 °C
Whole year	19 °C	10 °C	640 mm	16 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 37.81° S, 144.96° 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 Melbourne: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.56µg/m³

PM109µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Melbourne

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

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

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

Moon over Melbourne

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 15:29 Set 00:03

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/Melbourne); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Melbourne

Tide station used: Melbourne

🌊 Sea surface

16.5 °C

satellite, 30/10

Sea state

Rippled

waves 0.2 m

Period

14 s

Swell

0.2 m

ThuThu 29/10

Low tide 12:08 0.4 m

High tide 17:25 0.8 m

TodayFri 30/10

Low tide 00:05 0.0 m

High tide 06:43 0.9 m

Low tide 12:49 0.4 m

High tide 18:06 0.8 m

TomorrowSat 31/10

Low tide 00:48 0.0 m

High tide 07:27 0.8 m

Low tide 13:30 0.4 m

High tide 18:48 0.8 m

SunSun 01/11

Low tide 01:33 0.0 m

High tide 08:11 0.8 m

Low tide 14:13 0.4 m

High tide 19:33 0.8 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest. · more tide detail on TidesAtlas

Look up a past day in Melbourne

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

Melbourne weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Melbourne, Victoria: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 11 °C (feels like 11 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 16 °C to 26 °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 Melbourne.

Melbourne weather data for developers

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