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Uluru in January

avoid · not the best time to go · the warmest month of the year, the wettest month of the year

The year in Uluru

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  1. Uluru in January: avoid
  2. Uluru in February: avoid
  3. Uluru in March: avoid
  4. Uluru in April: sweet spot
  5. Uluru in May: good
  6. Uluru in June: sweet spot
  7. Uluru in July: good, busy
  8. Uluru in August: sweet spot
  9. Uluru in September: sweet spot
  10. Uluru in October: avoid
  11. Uluru in November: avoid
  12. Uluru in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
January is ruled out at Uluru: extreme heat: 24 days over 35C.

The numbers

Daily high37°C
Nightly low25°C
Feels like, afternoon37°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more3 · 48 mm
Humidity33%
Sunshine11.6 h/day
Daylight13.5 h/day
Days over 35°C24
Hiking0 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C
Crowds80 / 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 Yulara (Ayers Rock Resort), outside the park, 6 km from the airport (AYQ): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

January: quieter than usual. Busiest in July.

Public holidays in January

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Uluru in pictures

What to pack

  • Light, loose clothes: daily highs average 37°C.
  • Plan the middle of the day indoors: 24 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. Everything for Australia: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Uluru: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

January elsewhere

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