Today
Has it rained enough in Gold Coast?
Rain soaked properly in 3 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Gold Coast has had 173.8mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 78.2mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (225.4mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
one day of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Gold Coast through a normal year
Across a normal year Gold Coast gets about 1017.5mm of rain, most of it in February (147.9mm) and least in July (37.2mm).
A normal October in Gold Coast has rain on 13 days. Only 8 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Gold Coast one of the wetter places this site covers in Australia in October — 2nd of 12, against Brisbane at the wet end (81.3mm) and Perth at the dry end (32.4mm).
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.