🇦🇺 Australia
Wollongong
Wollongong is a city in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the narrow coastal strip between the Illawarra Escarpment and the Pacific Ocean, 85 kilometres south of Sydney. Wollongong had an estimated urban population of 302,739 at June 2018, making it the third-largest city in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle and the tenth-largest city in Australia by population. The city's current Lord Mayor is Tania Brown who was elected in 2024.
- Country
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Elevation
- 27 m
- Population
- 280,153
- Time zone
- Australia/Sydney
- Coordinates
- -34.42, 150.89
Weather in Wollongong month by month
The best months to go: Jan · Nov · Dec
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 25° | 24° | 23° | 21° | 19° | 17° | 16° | 17° | 20° | 21° | 22° | 24° |
| low | 19° | 18° | 17° | 15° | 12° | 10° | 9° | 10° | 11° | 13° | 15° | 16° |
| rain | 119 mm | 190 mm | 240 mm | 93 mm | 93 mm | 50 mm | 148 mm | 74 mm | 71 mm | 129 mm | 101 mm | 93 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Wollongong is from other cities in Australia
- Sydney68 km✈ 50 min · 🚗 1 h 8 min
- Central Coast119 km✈ 54 min · 🚗 1 h 59 min
- Newcastle185 km✈ 59 min · 🚗 3 h 5 min
- Canberra187 km✈ 59 min · 🚗 3 h 7 min
- Melbourne652 km✈ 1 h 33 min · 🚗 10 h 52 min
- Geelong717 km✈ 1 h 37 min · 🚗 11 h 57 min
- Gold Coast754 km✈ 1 h 40 min · 🚗 12 h 34 min
- Logan City783 km✈ 1 h 42 min · 🚗 13 h 3 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.