Summer

Autumn

Winter

Spring

Historical Average (not from any particular year) temperatures are shown and sunset times are approximate average times for the month.

Northern Territory does not operate daylight saving and local time is 9.5 hours ahead of GMT

The Wet and The Dry

Darwin, and the 'Top End' of the Northern Territory has a Wet and a Dry season, as the rainfall chart indicates. The rainfall brings spectacular waterfalls to life, wild flowers into bloom and some routes are made impassable. This contasts with the Dry season, where rain fall is non existant to just a few mm per month.

Driving through the Australian Outback is not recommended for the inexperienced and un prepared.

The map above shows the latitude of Darwin and the corresponding latitude in the Northern Hemisphere. Cities occupying the same latitude to within +/- 1 degree are shown to give an approximate indication of the climate to be expected in Darwin. Although latitude is an important influence, climate is extremely complex and many other factors are involved in the resulting climate for any given location including, but by no means all, ocean temperature, land mass, altitude, prevailing winds, distance from coast, land form..