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Newcastle weather

New South Wales · 508,437 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 03:58

Air: Good Moderate storm risk · Tomorrow, Sun, Tue

19°

Clear sky

Feels like 19°C

Wind

7 km/h

Gusts

13 km/h

Humidity

74 %

Pressure

1025 hPa

Clouds

16 %

Storm

Rise 05:55 Set 19:17 Day 13 h 21 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Clear sky

18°17°

Feels like 18°

Wind ↑ SE 8 km/h

Humidity 80 %

Morning

Clear sky

20°18°

Feels like 24°

Wind ↑ ENE 12 km/h

Humidity 67 %

Afternoon

Mainly clear

21°19°

Feels like 25°

Wind ↑ ENE 25 km/h

Gusts 40 km/h

Humidity 68 %

Evening

Partly cloudy

19°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ NE 32 km/h

Gusts 49 km/h

Humidity 77 %

11:00

20°

ENE 12

14:00

19°

ENE 25

17:00

21°

ENE 25

20:00

19°

NE 32

23:00

19°

NE 27

02:00

17°

NNE 21

05:00

18°

NNE 15

08:00

17°

N 13

Newcastle 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)

Newcastle climate: what a normal year looks like

Swimmers find the warmest sea in February (23 °C) and the coolest in August (18 °C).

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 10 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 38 mm and 89 mm on average.

From 9 h 58 min of daylight in late June to 14 h 19 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 22 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (23 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	28 °C	20 °C	70 mm	23 °C
Feb	27 °C	20 °C	89 mm	23 °C
Mar	26 °C	19 °C	88 mm	23 °C
Apr	23 °C	16 °C	65 mm	23 °C
May	20 °C	13 °C	62 mm	21 °C
Jun	18 °C	11 °C	72 mm	20 °C
Jul	17 °C	10 °C	47 mm	19 °C
Aug	18 °C	10 °C	38 mm	18 °C
Sep	21 °C	12 °C	42 mm	19 °C
Oct	23 °C	15 °C	57 mm	19 °C
Nov	25 °C	17 °C	77 mm	20 °C
Dec	26 °C	18 °C	71 mm	22 °C
Whole year	23 °C	15 °C	780 mm	21 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 32.92° S, 151.79° 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 Newcastle: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.54µg/m³

PM106µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Newcastle

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Newcastle, 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 Newcastle yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Newcastle

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 14:46 Set —

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

Sea and tides near Newcastle

Tide station used: Newcastle

🌊 Sea surface

20.4 °C

satellite, 30/10

Sea state

Slight

waves 1.8 m

Period

11 s

Swell

1.8 m

ThuThu 29/10

High tide 11:17 1.8 m

Low tide 17:56 0.2 m

TodayFri 30/10

High tide 00:00 1.3 m

Low tide 05:32 0.4 m

High tide 12:07 1.8 m

Low tide 18:52 0.2 m

TomorrowSat 31/10

High tide 00:56 1.2 m

Low tide 06:24 0.5 m

High tide 13:00 1.7 m

Low tide 19:54 0.3 m

SunSun 01/11

High tide 02:00 1.1 m

Low tide 07:22 0.6 m

High tide 13:59 1.6 m

Low tide 21:09 0.3 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 Newcastle

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

Newcastle weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Newcastle, New South Wales: 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 19 °C (feels like 19 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 17 °C to 21 °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 Newcastle.

Other big cities nearby

Central Coast 68 km 16°

Sydney 118 km 17°

Newcastle weather data for developers

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