Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia, with a population of about 2.8 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of South East Queensland, a bio-geographical and urban region with an estimated population of 4.1 million as of 2024. The central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) from its mouth at Moreton Bay. Greater Brisbane sprawls across the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between the Pacific Ocean and the Taylor and D'Aguilar mountain ranges, encompassing several local government areas (LGAs). The City of Brisbane LGA forms the inner area of Greater Brisbane, and is the most populous local government area in Australia. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite.
- Country
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Elevation
- 27 m
- Population
- 2,780,063
- Time zone
- Australia/Brisbane
- Coordinates
- -27.47, 153.03
Weather in Brisbane month by month
The best months to go: Apr · Aug · Sep
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 29° | 29° | 28° | 26° | 23° | 21° | 21° | 23° | 25° | 26° | 28° | 29° |
| low | 21° | 20° | 19° | 16° | 13° | 11° | 10° | 11° | 13° | 16° | 17° | 20° |
| rain | 106 mm | 229 mm | 195 mm | 49 mm | 97 mm | 29 mm | 48 mm | 25 mm | 48 mm | 106 mm | 97 mm | 122 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Brisbane is from other cities in Australia
- Logan City21 km✈ 47 min · 🚗 21 min
- Gold Coast71 km✈ 50 min · 🚗 1 h 11 min
- Sunshine Coast90 km✈ 52 min · 🚗 1 h 30 min
- Newcastle619 km✈ 1 h 30 min · 🚗 10 h 19 min
- Central Coast682 km✈ 1 h 35 min · 🚗 11 h 22 min
- Sydney733 km✈ 1 h 39 min · 🚗 12 h 13 min
- Wollongong800 km✈ 1 h 44 min · 🚗 13 h 20 min
- Canberra944 km✈ 1 h 54 min · 🚗 15 h 44 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.