When to go & weather

Weather

Be prepared for a climatic shift as you assail the Blue Mountains – swelter in Coogee, shiver in Katoomba. The mountains are promoted as a cool-climate attraction, but visit any time: summer days are hazy perfection; autumn fogs make Katoomba an eerily atmospheric place. Despite the chill, winter days can be sunny and, down in the sheltered valleys, insects buzz in warm, windless bliss. Winter snows sometimes dapple the highest peaks.