Weekly note
Whitsunday Islands
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The numbers

Daily high28°C
Nightly low24°C
Feels like, afternoon32°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more10 · 227 mm
Humidity82%
Sunshine10.0 h/day
Daylight12.2 h/day
Beach and sea21 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 29 °C, warm good
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 Airlie Beach, the gateway town, 30 km from the airport (PPP): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

March: quieter than usual. Busiest in January, July and August; quietest in May and June.

Public holidays in March

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

Whitsunday Islands in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 28°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 10 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 82%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

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 Whitsunday Islands: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

March elsewhere

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