Point Stuart, Northern Territory
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Point Stuart is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the territorial capital of Darwin.
The locality consists of land bounded in part to the west by the Mary River, in part to the north by the coastline of Van Diemen Gulf, to the east by the Kakadu National Park and in the south by the Arnhem Highway. The locality was named after a feature on the coastline of Van Diemen Gulf which was named in honour of John McDouall Stuart for his successful crossing of the Australian continent in 1862.Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007.
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Point Stuart had 22 people living within its boundaries.
Point Stuart is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Goyder and within the unincorporated areas of the Northern Territory.
Climate
The airstrip has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen: Aw) with a wet season from November to April and a dry season from May to October. Extreme temperatures ranged from 38.8 °C (101.8 °F) on 7 November 2020 to 8.4 °C (47.1 °F) on 25 July 2023. The wettest recorded day was 25 December 2021 with 174.6 mm (6.87 in) of rainfall.
| Climate data for Point Stuart (12°14′S 131°53′E/12.24°S 131.88°E/ -12.24; 131.88) (1 m (3.3 ft) AMSL) (1994-2025) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 37.6 (99.7) | 36.5 (97.7) | 36.2 (97.2) | 35.9 (96.6) | 35.3 (95.5) | 34.4 (93.9) | 35.5 (95.9) | 36.8 (98.2) | 38.2 (100.8) | 38.3 (100.9) | 38.8 (101.8) | 38.3 (100.9) | 38.8 (101.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 32.6 (90.7) | 32.3 (90.1) | 32.4 (90.3) | 32.8 (91.0) | 32.2 (90.0) | 31.5 (88.7) | 31.4 (88.5) | 32.4 (90.3) | 33.5 (92.3) | 34.8 (94.6) | 34.9 (94.8) | 34.0 (93.2) | 32.9 (91.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 25.2 (77.4) | 25.1 (77.2) | 25.2 (77.4) | 24.4 (75.9) | 21.6 (70.9) | 19.5 (67.1) | 18.2 (64.8) | 18.7 (65.7) | 21.6 (70.9) | 24.3 (75.7) | 25.0 (77.0) | 25.3 (77.5) | 22.8 (73.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 21.0 (69.8) | 20.8 (69.4) | 20.7 (69.3) | 16.4 (61.5) | 14.0 (57.2) | 10.3 (50.5) | 8.4 (47.1) | 10.2 (50.4) | 14.6 (58.3) | 19.6 (67.3) | 21.3 (70.3) | 22.3 (72.1) | 8.4 (47.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 297.8 (11.72) | 269.2 (10.60) | 220.1 (8.67) | 116.9 (4.60) | 16.5 (0.65) | 1.4 (0.06) | 0.6 (0.02) | 8.3 (0.33) | 10.9 (0.43) | 51.6 (2.03) | 113.9 (4.48) | 234.7 (9.24) | 1,387.7 (54.63) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm) | 18.5 | 18.1 | 16.3 | 8.4 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 4.3 | 8.6 | 14.5 | 95.6 |
| Source: Bureau of Meteorology (1994-2025) |