Погода: Вуллонгонг, декабрь

Regulars split this month at its own midpoint: early December can be genuinely beautiful and not that humid, while the run-up to Christmas turns hotter and more crowded as the holiday hype builds - humidity itself does not peak until January. Our row averages across both halves at 23.5C reading as 25C, with 86.6mm of rain across 9.6 days. Their sea estimate runs warmer than our column - they say 25C and above, we read 20.4C - which is the early-summer gap between a beach that has not fully warmed and a forecast built on the season's later weeks; either way a coastal breeze keeps the humidity milder than the air temperature alone suggests. The record: humidity 72 percent, 11.2 hours of sun, a 19.1 kph wind and AQI 49.

Forum posters describe Wollongong's July as squarely winter, cool with genuinely variable weather, and recommend wind-proof clothing given how biting the coastal wind can turn, especially once the dry southwesterlies pick up later in winter into August-September. Posters note Wollongong sees heavy-rain days regularly but overall fewer stretches of mixed, changeable weather than Melbourne, with roughly 137 rainy days a year on average. Posters describing the following spring, September through November, note those months bring markedly clearer, crisper conditions - useful context for anyone deciding between a winter or spring visit. Posters generally rate July as cool, wind-affected and genuinely wintry for Wollongong, workable with proper layers and wind protection.

Forum posters note Wollongong genuinely gets a lot of rain year-round - more than twice London's annual rainfall by one poster's count, with roughly 137 days of some rain a typical year - so a summer visit is never a sure bet for wall-to-wall sun. One visitor's five-day December trip (similar seasonal pattern to January) landed three good tourist days and two stormy ones spent mostly near the hotel, which posters treat as a fairly representative mix for this time of year. Despite the rain risk, posters describe January days as warm and pleasant when the weather does cooperate, with the coastal escarpment scenery and beaches making it worth building in flexibility rather than a rigid day-by-day plan.