Warmest sea within 3h drive of Brisbane
Live water temperatures from Open-Meteo Marine, ranked by warmth. Drive times estimate motorway-blended travel (≈ 80 km/h). Pick a different radius to widen or narrow your weekend search.
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- 1Main Beach Gold CoastGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea69 km · 0.9h—
- 2Surfers ParadiseGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea71 km · 0.9h—
- 3BroadbeachGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea74 km · 0.9h—
- 4Caloundra Kings BeachCaloundra, Australia · Coral Sea75 km · 0.9h—
- 5Bulcock BeachCaloundra, Australia · Coral Sea75 km · 0.9h—
- 6Mermaid BeachGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea75 km · 0.9h—
- 7Burleigh HeadsGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea81 km · 1.0h—
- 8Kawana BeachKawana, Australia · Coral Sea83 km · 1.0h—
- 9Palm Beach Gold CoastGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea84 km · 1.0h—
- 10Currumbin BeachGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea87 km · 1.1h—
- 11Mooloolaba BeachMooloolaba, Australia · Coral Sea88 km · 1.1h—
- 12Alexandra HeadlandAlexandra Headland, Australia · Coral Sea89 km · 1.1h—
- 13Bilinga BeachGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea91 km · 1.1h—
- 14Maroochydore BeachMaroochydore, Australia · Coral Sea91 km · 1.1h—
- 15Kirra BeachGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea92 km · 1.1h—
- 16Coolangatta BeachGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea93 km · 1.2h—
- 17Greenmount BeachGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea93 km · 1.2h—
- 18Snapper RocksGold Coast, Australia · Coral Sea93 km · 1.2h—
- 19Kingscliff BeachKingscliff, Australia · Tasman Sea103 km · 1.3h—
- 20Coolum BeachCoolum Beach, Australia · Coral Sea105 km · 1.3h—
- 21Peregian BeachPeregian Beach, Australia · Coral Sea110 km · 1.4h—
- 22Cabarita BeachCabarita Beach, Australia · Tasman Sea110 km · 1.4h—
- 23Sunshine BeachSunshine Beach, Australia · Coral Sea119 km · 1.5h—
- 24Noosa Main BeachNoosa Heads, Australia · Coral Sea121 km · 1.5h—
- 25Belongil BeachByron Bay, Australia · Tasman Sea141 km · 1.8h—
- 26Wategos BeachByron Bay, Australia · Tasman Sea143 km · 1.8h—
- 27Byron Main BeachByron Bay, Australia · Tasman Sea143 km · 1.8h—
- 28Tallow BeachByron Bay, Australia · Tasman Sea145 km · 1.8h—
- 29Lennox HeadLennox Head, Australia · Tasman Sea157 km · 2.0h—
- 30Rainbow BeachRainbow Beach, Australia · Coral Sea174 km · 2.2h—
About this list
We benchmark every beach in our database against Brisbane using great-circle (haversine) distance, then re-rank by today's actual sea temperature returned by Open-Meteo Marine. If a grid cell does not return a fresh value, we leave it blank instead of substituting a seasonal average.
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