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New South Wales · 5,638,830 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 05:03

Air: Good Low storm risk · Mon, Tue, Wed

16°

Mainly clear

Feels like 16°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

6 km/h

Humidity

80 %

Pressure

1024 hPa

Clouds

20 %

Storm

Rise 05:56 Set 19:20 Day 13 h 24 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Mainly clear

16°15°

Feels like 16°

Wind ↑ W 3 km/h

Humidity 80 %

Morning

Clear sky

20°17°

Feels like 23°

Wind ↑ NNE 13 km/h

Humidity 66 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

21°

Feels like 24°

Wind ↑ ENE 29 km/h

Gusts 39 km/h

Humidity 58 %

Evening

Mainly clear

19°18°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ NE 28 km/h

Gusts 51 km/h

Humidity 78 %

11:00

20°

NNE 13

14:00

21°

ENE 24

17:00

21°

ENE 29

20:00

18°

NE 28

23:00

19°

NNE 22

02:00

16°

N 9

05:00

17°

N 15

08:00

18°

N 8

Sydney 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)

Sydney 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 7 °C.

From 9 h 53 min of daylight in late June to 14 h 24 min in late December.

Afternoons climb to 25 °C only from December to March, with a typical peak of 27 °C in January.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 22 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (24 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	27 °C	19 °C	74 mm	23 °C
Feb	27 °C	19 °C	93 mm	23 °C
Mar	26 °C	18 °C	73 mm	23 °C
Apr	23 °C	14 °C	57 mm	22 °C
May	20 °C	10 °C	52 mm	21 °C
Jun	17 °C	8 °C	66 mm	19 °C
Jul	17 °C	7 °C	38 mm	18 °C
Aug	18 °C	8 °C	40 mm	18 °C
Sep	20 °C	10 °C	42 mm	18 °C
Oct	24 °C	13 °C	55 mm	19 °C
Nov	24 °C	15 °C	72 mm	20 °C
Dec	26 °C	17 °C	62 mm	21 °C
Whole year	22 °C	13 °C	720 mm	21 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 33.87° S, 151.21° 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 Sydney: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.55µg/m³

PM107µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Sydney

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

Moon over Sydney

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 14:51 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 Sydney

Tide station used: Sydney Fort Denison · 2 km away

🌊 Sea surface

19.9 °C

satellite, 30/10

Sea state

Slight

waves 1.8 m

Period

10 s

Swell

1.8 m

ThuThu 29/10

High tide 11:13 1.8 m

Low tide 17:53 0.2 m

High tide 23:53 1.3 m

TodayFri 30/10

Low tide 05:33 0.4 m

High tide 12:04 1.8 m

Low tide 18:48 0.2 m

TomorrowSat 31/10

High tide 00:49 1.2 m

Low tide 06:24 0.5 m

High tide 12:57 1.7 m

Low tide 19:50 0.3 m

SunSun 01/11

High tide 01:51 1.2 m

Low tide 07:21 0.5 m

High tide 13:57 1.6 m

Low tide 21:07 0.3 m

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

Look up a past day in Sydney

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

Sydney weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sydney, 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 “mainly clear”, it is 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 16 °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 Sydney Fort Denison.

Other big cities nearby

Central Coast 51 km 16°

Newcastle 118 km 18°

Canberra 247 km 8°

Sydney weather data for developers

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