10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Light rain
20°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ NNW 4 km/h
Gusts12 km/h
Humidity 99 %
💧 1.1 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ N 9 km/h
Gusts19 km/h
Humidity 69 %
💧 2.6 mm
⚡ storm
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ W 5 km/h
Humidity 70 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
25°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ NNE 8 km/h
Gusts18 km/h
Humidity 49 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ WNW 4 km/h
Humidity 95 %
Afternoon
Rain showers
26°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ NNE 11 km/h
Gusts23 km/h
Humidity 71 %
💧 1.0 mm
⚡ storm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ SW 3 km/h
Humidity 84 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
24°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ ESE 11 km/h
Humidity 66 %
Sunshine 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)
Sunshine Coast climate: what a normal year looks like
Swimmers find the warmest sea in February (27 °C) and the coolest in August (21 °C).
The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 11 °C.
From 10 h 27 min of daylight in late June to 13 h 49 min in late December.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 28 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (26 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Sea
Jan
29 °C
22 °C
129 mm
26 °C
Feb
28 °C
21 °C
154 mm
27 °C
Mar
27 °C
20 °C
126 mm
26 °C
Apr
25 °C
17 °C
76 mm
25 °C
May
23 °C
14 °C
78 mm
24 °C
Jun
20 °C
11 °C
64 mm
22 °C
Jul
21 °C
11 °C
36 mm
21 °C
Aug
22 °C
10 °C
45 mm
21 °C
Sep
25 °C
14 °C
43 mm
21 °C
Oct
26 °C
16 °C
81 mm
22 °C
Nov
27 °C
19 °C
81 mm
24 °C
Dec
28 °C
21 °C
120 mm
25 °C
Whole year
25 °C
16 °C
1,030 mm
24 °C
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 26.66° S, 153.08° 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 Sunshine Coast: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.57µg/m³
PM1010µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Sunshine Coast
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Sunshine Coast, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Sunshine Coast yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Sunshine Coast
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 15:24 Set 01:03
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Wed11/113%
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Australia/Brisbane); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Sea and tides near Sunshine Coast
Tide station used: Sunshine Coast
🌊 Sea surface
23.0 °C
satellite, 30/10
Sea state
Smooth
waves 0.9 m
Period
5 s
Swell
0.4 m
ThuThu 29/10
Low tide16:300.4 m
High tide22:041.3 m
TodayFri 30/10
Low tide03:540.2 m
High tide10:531.9 m
Low tide17:390.5 m
High tide23:061.2 m
TomorrowSat 31/10
Low tide04:480.4 m
High tide11:561.8 m
Low tide18:570.5 m
SunSun 01/11
High tide00:231.1 m
Low tide05:550.5 m
High tide13:051.8 m
Low tide20:150.5 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 Sunshine Coast
Curious about the weather in Sunshine 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.
Sunshine Coast weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Sunshine 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 “partly cloudy”, it is 19 °C (feels like 19 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.
Expected range today: 15 °C to 23 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. 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 Sunshine Coast.
Use the Sunshine Coast forecast in your own website or app: one JSON call returns weather, air quality, tides and sun and moon times. The free key needs no card.
