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Gold Coast in May
good · a good time to go
The year in Gold Coast
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- JanJGold Coast in January: good, busy
- FebFGold Coast in February: sweet spot
- MarMGold Coast in March: good
- AprAGold Coast in April: good
- MayMGold Coast in May: good
- JunJGold Coast in June: sweet spot
- JulJGold Coast in July: good, busy
- AugAGold Coast in August: good
- SepSGold Coast in September: sweet spot
- OctOGold Coast in October: sweet spot
- NovNGold Coast in November: good, busy
- DecDGold Coast in December: good, busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 22°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 16°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 22°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 8 · 113 mm |
| Humidity | 73% |
| Sunshine | 9.1 h/day |
| Daylight | 10.7 h/day |
| Beach and sea | 8 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea not measured |
| Crowds | 100 / 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 Surfers Paradise, 20 km from the airport (OOL): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Gold Coast in pictures
What to pack
- A packable rain jacket for the 8 or so rainy days.
- Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
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On arrival in Gold Coast: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
May elsewhere
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