About Cairns

Cairns is one of Australia’s major destinations for domestic and international tourists and has one of Australia’s busiest airports.

Over 2,000,000 holiday makers, conventioneers, travellers, backpackers and visitors come to Cairns every year, for the outstanding attractions and lifestyle. They are attracted to international standard hotels and accommodations from Cooktown and the Cape York area to the sumptuous Port Douglas north of Cairns and the Great Green Way to the south of Cairns that includes Mission Beach, Dunk Island and the sugar towns of Babinda, Innisfail and Gordonvale. The cooler upland tropics of the Atherton Tablelands provide a different more rural lifestyle.

Tourism in the Cairns region relies on its great gardens and landscapes. From golf courses, civic parks, resorts and private residences to the famous Flecker Botanic Gardens - Cairns has a unique garden and landscape style that is a clever combination that includes elements of a colonial past and its architecture, a massive selection of native rainforest plants and extensive collections the most exotic equatorial and monsoon plants.   In combination with the plant raw materials are the talented skills of many tropical garden designers and landscapers who create the mood of the Australian tropics.

The Weather and Climate

Average green (wet) season temperatures range from 24 - 33 deg. Celsius and in the dry from 14 - 26 degrees. Highest temperatures usually occur in January and the lowest in June, July and August. The upland areas are cooler, with average dry season temperatures of 9 - 22 deg.

Many parts of the region have an annual rainfall that is as high as and sometimes higher than 2000mm.

View of Cairns City from Mt Whitfield Environmental Park