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Australia · 28 January 2016

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Average

26.4°C

low 24.9° · high 29.3°

Rainfall

3.7mm

rain recorded

Wind

1.5m/s

daily average

Humidity

88.4%

daily average

Cloud

100%

cover

Pressure

1009hPa

daily average

The temperature ranged from 24.9°C around 02:00 to 29.3°C around 12:00. Rain was recorded across 9 hours, from around 00:00 to 20:00 (3.7mm total).

How unusual was this day?

Compared against the same 135 calendar days (±7 days) across the other 9 years on file.

High temperature

72th percentile

Low temperature

91th percentile

Rainfall

42th percentile

Wind

13th percentile

A percentile of 100 means this was the hottest/wettest/windiest of the comparable days on file; 50 is right in the middle. This window's average temperature was 25.8°C, versus 26.4°C on this specific day.

Sun & daylight

Sunrise

06:02

Sunset

18:56

Day length

12h 54m

Hour by hour

Temperature (line) and hourly rainfall (bars), local time — Australia/Brisbane.

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Cumulative rainfall through the day.

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Local timeUTCTemp °CFeels °CRain mmWind m/sDirHumidity %Pressure hPa
00:0014:0025.130.20.940.5NE901011
01:0015:0024.930.40.450.6NE951011
02:0016:0024.930.40.050.5E941010
03:0017:002530.30.010.6ENE941009
04:0018:0024.930.10.030.8NE941009
05:0019:0025.130.40.020.8ENE941009
06:0020:002530.10.030.9NE941009
07:0021:0025.230.40.081.1NE941010
08:0022:002732.70.181NNW891011
09:0023:0027.433.80.080.9N921011
10:0000:0027.633.90.071.2N921011
11:0001:0028.734.50.041.4N831011
12:0002:0029.334.10.031.9NNE761010
13:0003:002933.30.022.4NE761009
14:0004:0027.731.40.272.7NE781008
15:0005:0027.531.40.152.3NNE791008
16:0006:0027.431.40.022.3NE801007
17:0007:0026.830.50.172.5NE821007
18:0008:0026.931.30.282.2NNE851008
19:0009:0026.531.20.621.8N871009
20:0010:0025.430.10.11.9NNE941009
21:0011:0025.530.30.021.8NNE931010
22:0012:0025.630.40.031.8N931010
23:0013:0025.730.90.011.5N941010

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Data source & coverage — ERA5 reanalysis, 2016–2025 (10 years)details
Source
ERA5 reanalysis, accessed via the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store
Data type
Reanalysis — a physically consistent reconstruction combining a forecast model with historical observations, not a live station reading or a forecast
Coverage
2016–2025 (10 years) for Australia
Location
Cairns — -17.000°, 145.750°, ERA5 grid cell center, 8.7 km from requested point
Time zone
Australia/Brisbane
What's shown here
The hourly and daily record for 28 January 2016 specifically — not a monthly average. See the Cairns climate overview for typical conditions.
Spatial resolution
0.25° (~25 km) distributed grid — ERA5's native model resolution is finer; this is the publicly distributed regridded product
Version / refreshed
Methodology v2026.07 · data last refreshed December 31, 2025
Limitations
A model reconstruction, not a station observation — hyper-local extremes (a single storm cell, an urban heat pocket) can differ from a nearby gauge. See the full methodology.
Attribution
Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information

Cite this data

Plain text
PastClimate (2026-07-17). Historical climate data for Cairns, Australia (-17.00°S, 145.75°E), derived from ERA5 (Hersbach et al., 2023, Copernicus Climate Change Service). Retrieved from https://www.pastclimate.com/
APA
PastClimate. (2026). Historical climate data for Cairns, Australia [Data set]. Derived from ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service). Retrieved July 17, 2026, from https://www.pastclimate.com/
MLA
"Historical Climate Data for Cairns, Australia." PastClimate, derived from ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service), July 17, 2026, www.pastclimate.com.
BibTeX
@misc{pastclimate,
  author = {PastClimate},
  title = {Historical climate data for Cairns, Australia},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Derived from ERA5 (Hersbach et al., 2023), Copernicus Climate Change Service. Accessed 2026-07-17},
  url = {https://www.pastclimate.com/}
}

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