Will it rain today in Alice Springs?
Should you take an umbrella in Alice Springs? The forecast below loads live every time you open the page: rain now, when the next shower comes, and how much falls today and tomorrow.
Rain right now
Dry in Alice Springs for now; rain expected from about 12:30. Today’s total: 0.6 mm over 3 wet hours. Tomorrow looks dry.
As of 2026-10-16 17:35 UTC (NOAA GFS snapshot). Updating live…
Rain every 3 hours, today and tomorrow
Today · Saturday 17 October
0.6 mm of rain, 3 wet hours, up to 0.1 mm/h.
Every 3 hours as a table
| Hours | Rain (mm) | mm/h | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21:30–00:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 00:30–03:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 03:30–06:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 06:30–09:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 09:30–12:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 12:30–15:30 | 0.3 | 0.1 | light · rain |
| 15:30–18:30 | 0.2 | 0.1 | dry |
| 18:30–21:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
Tomorrow · Sunday 18 October
Dry: no rain in the forecast.
Every 3 hours as a table
| Hours | Rain (mm) | mm/h | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21:30–00:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 00:30–03:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 03:30–06:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 06:30–09:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 09:30–12:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 12:30–15:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 15:30–18:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
| 18:30–21:30 | 0 | 0 | dry |
Times in local time (Australia/Darwin). Each bar is the rain over 3 hours; striped bars are snow.
Rain map around Alice Springs
The same NOAA GFS precipitation on the map, moving hour by hour: blue light, darker heavy. Tap for the value.
How much it rains in Alice Springs, month by month
Alice Springs gets about 276 mm of rain a year. The wettest month is January (54 mm), the driest August (3 mm); a normal October brings 17 mm.
Average monthly rain and snow (water equivalent) 2001–2025, NASA POWER (MERRA-2 reanalysis, public domain), on a ~50 km grid: mountains and coasts can differ locally.
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Questions
- Will it rain today in Alice Springs?
- At 17 October 2026 the forecast said: Dry in Alice Springs for now; rain expected from about 12:30. Today’s total: 0.6 mm over 3 wet hours. Tomorrow looks dry. The box at the top of the page loads the latest NOAA GFS forecast every time you open it, with the time the next rain starts.
- How much does it rain in Alice Springs?
- About 276 mm a year on average (2001–2025). January is the wettest month with 54 mm, August the driest with 3 mm.
- What do the rain amounts mean?
- 1 mm is a litre of water per square metre. Under 2.5 mm an hour is light rain (a drizzle to a steady rain), 2.5–7.6 moderate, above 7.6 heavy: you get soaked in minutes and streets can flood.
- How accurate is the forecast?
- It is the global NOAA GFS model on a 0.25° grid every 3 hours: good at telling a rainy day from a dry one, less at placing a single summer thunderstorm. Check the rain map for the showers moving around Alice Springs.
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How this page works
The rain is the one the rain layer of the map paints: NOAA GFS forecast (public domain), precipitation rate averaged over 3 hours, read at Alice Springs and summed per local day. Rain or snow comes from the GFS precipitation type. The monthly normals are NASA POWER. No third-party weather service.