Climate
Gosford has a humid subtropical climate, with warm summers and mild winters. In summer, temperatures generally range from about 27–28 °C in the day with high humidity and about 17–18 °C at night. Winters are mild with cool overnight temperatures and mild to occasionally warm daytime temperatures with lower humidity. Average rainfall is 1333.0 mm, a lot of which falls in the late summer and autumn. Records range from a maximum of 43.8 °C on 1 January 2006 to a low of −4.2 °C on 16 July 1970.
| Climate data for Gosford | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 27.6 (81.7) |
27.2 (81.0) |
25.9 (78.6) |
23.5 (74.3) |
20.4 (68.7) |
18.0 (64.4) |
17.6 (63.7) |
19.1 (66.4) |
21.5 (70.7) |
23.7 (74.7) |
25.0 (77.0) |
26.8 (80.2) |
23.0 (73.4) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 16.9 (62.4) |
17.1 (62.8) |
15.3 (59.5) |
11.9 (53.4) |
8.3 (46.9) |
6.6 (43.9) |
4.8 (40.6) |
5.5 (41.9) |
7.9 (46.2) |
10.8 (51.4) |
13.3 (55.9) |
15.4 (59.7) |
11.1 (52.0) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 115.6 (4.551) |
185.6 (7.307) |
140.2 (5.52) |
154.6 (6.087) |
119.7 (4.713) |
113.6 (4.472) |
74.3 (2.925) |
72.8 (2.866) |
64.8 (2.551) |
90.8 (3.575) |
95.5 (3.76) |
109.2 (4.299) |
1,333.0 (52.48) |
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The highest rainfall on record in gosford was about 1000 ml in 1 night.
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