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Alice Springs in January
avoid · not the best time to go · the warmest month of the year
The year in Alice Springs
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- JanJAlice Springs in January: avoid
- FebFAlice Springs in February: avoid
- MarMAlice Springs in March: avoid
- AprAAlice Springs in April: sweet spot
- MayMAlice Springs in May: sweet spot
- JunJAlice Springs in June: sweet spot
- JulJAlice Springs in July: sweet spot
- AugAAlice Springs in August: sweet spot
- SepSAlice Springs in September: sweet spot
- OctOAlice Springs in October: sweet spot
- NovNAlice Springs in November: avoid
- DecDAlice Springs in December: avoid
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 37°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 24°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 37°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 3 · 58 mm |
| Humidity | 35% |
| Sunshine | 11.7 h/day |
| Daylight | 13.4 h/day |
| Days over 35°C | 23 |
| Hiking | 0 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C |
| Crowds | 45 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at the centre, 12 km from the airport (ASP): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in January
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Alice Springs in pictures
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Attwood, Audrey, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Genet (Diskussion), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Johannes Püller, CC BY-SA 2.0 at, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Light, loose clothes: daily highs average 37°C.
- Plan the middle of the day indoors: 23 days a month pass 35°C.
- Sun protection: about 12 hours of sunshine a day.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type I plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Australian dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise normal security precautions. US State Department: Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions. Everything for Australia: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Alice Springs: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
January elsewhere
In January from
The other months at Alice Springs
- January
- February avoid
- March avoid
- April sweet spot
- May sweet spot
- June sweet spot
- July sweet spot
- August sweet spot
- September sweet spot
- October sweet spot
- November avoid
- December avoid
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