"Monthly Climate Statistics for 'CAPE DON' [014008]" "Created on [ 22 Oct 2025 13:49:54 UTC]" "014008 CAPE DON" "Commenced: 1917" "Last Record: 1990" "Latitude: 11.32 Degrees South" "Longitude: 131.77 Degrees East" "Elevation: 19 m" "State: NT" "Statistic Element","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December","Annual","Number of Years","Start Year","End Year" "Mean maximum temperature (°C) for years 1946 to 1990 ",31.4,30.9,31.1,31.4,30.6,28.8,28.2,29.0,30.4,31.7,32.5,32.2,30.7,43,1946,1990 "Highest temperature (°C) for years 1957 to 1990 ",36.1,35.2,36.4,34.7,34.5,32.8,32.3,33.3,35.8,37.8,36.7,36.2,37.8,33,1957,1990 "Date of Highest temperature °C for years 1957 to 1990 ",09 Jan 1987,18 Feb 1983,12 Mar 1986,20 Apr 1988,10 May 1988,24 Jun 1961,15 Jul 1989,27 Aug 1971,10 Sep 1972,23 Oct 1971,26 Nov 1979,21 Dec 1986,23 Oct 1971,N/A,1957,1990 "Lowest maximum temperature (°C) for years 1957 to 1990 ",26.4,25.7,25.8,25.6,25.2,23.2,22.8,24.4,26.7,26.7,26.0,26.9,22.8,33,1957,1990 "Date of Lowest maximum temperature °C for years 1957 to 1990 ",26 Jan 1968,28 Feb 1972,11 Mar 1981,30 Apr 1977,02 May 1977,22 Jun 1963,20 Jul 1965,16 Aug 1957,07 Sep 1982,17 Oct 1962,27 Nov 1975,18 Dec 1969,20 Jul 1965,N/A,1957,1990 "Decile 1 maximum temperature (°C) for years 1957 to 1990 ",29.3,28.9,29.2,30.0,28.6,26.7,26.1,27.3,28.9,30.4,31.0,30.1, ,33,1957,1990 "Decile 9 maximum temperature (°C) for years 1957 to 1990 ",33.1,32.5,32.5,32.7,32.2,30.6,30.0,30.6,32.0,33.0,33.9,33.9, ,33,1957,1990 "Mean number of days >= 30 °C for years 1957 to 1990 ",24.8,21.2,23.9,27.0,22.3,8.1,4.0,6.7,19.1,29.3,28.1,27.9,242.4,33,1957,1990 "Mean number of days >= 35 °C for years 1957 to 1990 ",0.4,0.1,0.1,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.2,0.6,0.9,2.3,33,1957,1990 "Mean number of days >= 40 °C for years 1957 to 1990 ",0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,33,1957,1990 "Mean minimum temperature (°C) for years 1946 to 1990 ",25.4,25.2,25.0,25.0,24.1,22.5,21.6,22.0,23.2,24.8,25.9,26.0,24.2,43,1946,1990 "Lowest temperature (°C) for years 1957 to 1990 ",15.0,16.7,16.1,19.8,14.4,15.1,15.0,18.3,14.4,21.1,18.2,20.8,14.4,33,1957,1990 "Date of Lowest temperature °C for years 1957 to 1990 ",09 Jan 1962,28 Feb 1968,02 Mar 1961,11 Apr 1987,27 May 1966,26 Jun 1965,18 Jul 1961,16 Aug 1957,06 Sep 1958,24 Oct 1961,19 Nov 1973,29 Dec 1973,06 Sep 1958,N/A,1957,1990 "Highest minimum temperature (°C) for years 1957 to 1990 ",30.0,29.4,28.5,28.3,27.9,26.7,25.4,25.0,26.4,28.4,29.5,29.4,30.0,33,1957,1990 "Date of Highest minimum temperature °C for years 1957 to 1990 ",04 Jan 1986,13 Feb 1961,05 Mar 1983,05 Apr 1958,13 May 1987,03 Jun 1958,09 Jul 1978,30 Aug 1971,28 Sep 1970,27 Oct 1966,28 Nov 1987,19 Dec 1959,04 Jan 1986,N/A,1957,1990 "Decile 1 minimum temperature (°C) for years 1957 to 1990 ",23.1,23.2,23.2,23.7,22.5,20.6,19.7,20.6,21.9,23.4,24.0,23.6, ,33,1957,1990 "Decile 9 minimum temperature (°C) for years 1957 to 1990 ",27.7,27.2,26.8,26.4,25.6,24.4,23.3,23.5,24.7,26.4,27.8,28.0, ,33,1957,1990 "Mean number of days <= 2 °C for years 1957 to 1990 ",0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,33,1957,1990 "Mean number of days <= 0 °C for years 1957 to 1990 ",0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,33,1957,1990 "Mean daily ground minimum temperature °C for years null to null ", , , , , , , , , , , , , ,, , "Lowest ground temperature °C for years null to null ", , , , , , , , , , , , , ,, , "Date of Lowest ground temperature °C for years null to null ", , , , , , , , , , , , , ,N/A, , "Mean number of days ground min. temp. <= -1 °C for years null to null ", , , , , , , , , , , , , ,, , "Mean rainfall (mm) for years 1917 to 1990 ",282.2,232.7,281.4,130.0,24.1,2.8,3.0,1.1,2.8,23.6,103.9,220.7,1313.4,72,1917,1990 "Highest rainfall (mm) for years 1917 to 1990 ",823.7,434.7,812.7,458.8,234.0,27.2,81.8,32.6,31.5,116.8,459.2,560.3,1960.4,72,1917,1990 "Date of Highest rainfall for years 1917 to 1990 ",1935,1956,1931,1948,1968,1964,1986,1975,1920,1964,1973,1957,1931,N/A,1917,1990 "Lowest rainfall (mm) for years 1917 to 1990 ",53.3,34.3,49.3,10.3,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,5.3,4.5,758.0,72,1917,1990 "Date of Lowest rainfall for years 1917 to 1990 ",1933,1931,1951,1932,1967,1988,1988,1987,1989,1987,1989,1925,1951,N/A,1917,1990 "Decile 1 monthly rainfall (mm) for years 1800 to 3000 ",117.6,123.4,136.8,29.8,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,18.2,77.6, ,73,n/a,n/a "Decile 5 (median) monthly rainfall (mm) for years 1800 to 3000 ",264.5,234.6,233.5,85.6,7.3,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,15.5,85.0,191.1, ,73,n/a,n/a "Decile 5 (median) monthly rainfall (mm) for years 1800 to 3000 ",477.8,347.4,491.4,308.1,55.1,9.4,7.1,2.6,9.0,61.0,212.3,427.3, ,73,n/a,n/a "Highest daily rainfall (mm) for years 1917 to 1990 ",344.9,148.8,228.6,162.8,115.7,24.9,35.6,22.0,31.5,60.5,162.8,269.0,344.9,72,1917,1990 "Date of Highest daily rainfall for years 1917 to 1990 ",13 Jan 1935,13 Feb 1986,09 Mar 1930,08 Apr 1919,01 May 1983,01 Jun 1964,01 Jul 1986,21 Aug 1975,19 Sep 1920,24 Oct 1961,18 Nov 1973,21 Dec 1945,13 Jan 1935,N/A,1917,1990 "Mean number of days of rain for years 1917 to 1990 ",17.9,17.4,18.1,10.0,3.3,0.7,0.7,0.4,0.7,3.0,8.2,14.0,94.4,72,1917,1990 "Mean number of days of rain >= 1 mm for years 1917 to 1990 ",15.9,15.2,15.6,8.5,2.4,0.5,0.4,0.2,0.5,2.3,7.2,12.2,80.9,72,1917,1990 "Mean number of days of rain >= 10 mm for years 1917 to 1990 ",8.1,7.0,7.6,3.5,0.7,0.1,0.1,0.0,0.1,0.8,2.9,6.0,36.9,72,1917,1990 "Mean number of days of rain >= 25 mm for years 1917 to 1990 ",3.5,2.9,3.5,1.5,0.3,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.2,1.2,2.8,15.9,72,1917,1990 "Mean daily wind run (km) for years null to null ", , , , , , , , , , , , , ,, , "Maximum wind gust speed (km/h) for years 1971 to 1989 ",98,74,89,104,52,71,58,52,45,67,71,93,104,10,1971,1989 "Date of Maximum wind gust speed for years 1971 to 1989 ",,,,,,,,,,26 Oct 1988,,05 Dec 1971,,N/A,1971,1989 "Mean daily sunshine (hours) for years null to null ", , , , , , , , , , , , , ,, , "Mean daily solar exposure (MJ/(m*m)) for years 2007 to 2025 ",18.8,20.4,20.5,21.0,20.6,19.9,20.8,22.9,24.1,24.5,23.2,19.5,21.4,19,2007,2025 "Mean number of clear days for years 1957 to 1989 ",0.6,0.2,0.8,2.7,6.7,10.7,11.5,11.0,8.8,6.1,1.7,0.6,61.4,31,1957,1989 "Mean number of cloudy days for years 1957 to 1989 ",22.8,20.9,20.6,11.5,7.4,4.4,5.2,3.4,4.2,6.9,11.6,19.4,138.3,31,1957,1989 "Mean daily evaporation (mm) for years null to null ", , , , , , , , , , , , , ,, , "Mean 9am temperature (°C) for years 1945 to 1990 ",28.3,27.8,27.7,27.5,26.3,24.4,23.6,24.3,26.1,28.0,29.1,28.9,26.8,43,1945,1990 "Mean 9am wet bulb temperature (°C) for years 1945 to 1990 ",25.7,25.7,25.5,24.7,22.9,20.7,20.0,20.8,22.6,24.4,25.5,25.7,23.7,40,1945,1990 "Mean 9am dew point temperature (°C) for years 1957 to 1990 ",24.8,24.9,24.6,23.3,21.0,18.3,17.5,18.8,20.9,22.7,23.9,24.4,22.1,29,1957,1990 "Mean 9am relative humidity (%) for years 1945 to 1990 ",81,84,83,78,73,70,70,72,73,73,74,77,76,40,1945,1990 "Mean 9am cloud cover (okas) for years 1945 to 1990 ",6.4,6.6,6.0,4.8,3.9,3.3,3.0,3.0,3.3,3.8,4.9,6.0,4.6,35,1945,1990 "Mean 9am wind speed (km/h) for years 1957 to 1990 ",15.8,14.9,11.8,11.4,17.1,19.1,17.3,12.5,10.1,7.8,8.3,11.1,13.1,33,1957,1990 "Mean 3pm temperature (°C) for years 1945 to 1990 ",29.9,29.4,29.6,30.1,29.6,27.9,27.2,27.7,29.1,30.2,30.9,30.5,29.3,42,1945,1990 "Mean 3pm wet bulb temperature (°C) for years 1945 to 1989 ",26.4,26.4,26.3,25.4,23.9,22.1,21.3,21.8,23.4,25.0,26.0,26.2,24.5,39,1945,1989 "Mean 3pm dew point temperature (°C) for years 1957 to 1989 ",25.0,25.2,24.7,23.2,20.9,18.6,17.6,18.7,20.7,22.7,23.9,24.5,22.1,28,1957,1989 "Mean 3pm relative humidity (%) for years 1945 to 1989 ",75,78,75,67,60,58,57,58,60,65,67,71,66,39,1945,1989 "Mean 3pm cloud cover (oktas) for years 1945 to 1989 ",6.6,6.7,6.3,5.1,4.1,3.3,3.4,3.4,3.8,4.2,5.2,6.1,4.9,34,1945,1989 "Mean 3pm wind speed (km/h) for years 1957 to 1989 ",18.1,17.4,14.4,13.7,16.1,17.6,17.3,14.6,13.0,13.2,12.7,14.0,15.2,32,1957,1989