Climate extremes of Australia

Coober Pedy for the best temps, despite being too dry

Babinda

Golden Gumboot Award ( the competition between the 3 wettest towns in AU )

The Golden Gumboot is a competition between the Far North Queensland towns of Tully, Innisfail, and Babinda in Australia for the wettest town of Australia. These towns are located in the Wet Tropics and on land that was previously covered by rainforest. These areas experience some of the highest levels of rainfall in Australia through monsoonal rain and cyclones. The winner for the competition (since 1970) was awarded a rubber boot.

Structure
Despite the fact that Babinda has had more rainfall than Tully in the last 40 years, The Golden Gumboot monument was opened in Tully by the Tully Lions and Rotary Clubs in May 2003. The project cost, including in-kind contributions, was $90,000. The boot is 7.9 metres (25.9 ft) and represents the record rainfall for Tully in 1950.

The boot is made of fibreglass. It has a spiral staircase to the top of the boot that allows a view of the town. Historical photographs of floods in the district are displayed on the walls inside the boot for visitors to view as they climb to the top. The Gumboot was designed, fabricated and installed by Brian Newell.

Tully holds a Golden Gumboot Festival annually.

The Golden Gumboot was closed after Cyclone Yasi in 2011. It was reopened early in 2012 by Andrew Fraser, the Acting Premier of Queensland.[1] Restoration was funded through an insurance claim and a $20,000 donation.

www.australiantraveller.com/qld/big-gumboot/


The wettest town rivalry
Fierce competition over which town could be called Australia’s wettest has existed between Tully and Babinda since at least 1950, when Tully recorded 7898.0mm (310.9 inches) – the most rain to yet to fall on any measuring gauge in the country.*
*there are wetter gauges in the mountains of Mt Bartle Frere

And Bellendon Kerr ( Top )


But Babinda’s long-term ave­rage of 4279.4mm (168.5 inches) is higher than Tully’s 4103.9mm (161.6 inches).

Tully Rotarian Ron Hunt, who was instrumental in getting the town’s giant Golden Gumboot statue built in 2002, said he would only be willing to move the structure north if Babinda ever received more than 8m (26.3 feet) of rain.

He said that in the early days, Tully locals would joke about Babinda men urinating in that town’s rain gauge to help it beat Tully.
“It was only tongue in cheek stuff. We built the gumboot originally because Tully was the wettest town in Australia.

“Then in the early 2000s Babinda crept ahead of us, so we couldn’t really claim that fame and we switched it to the record of 1950.”
Babinda District Community Association president Debra Quabba said she wasn’t surprised her home town had once again taken out the title.
“Certainly it cements our place in history as the wettest town,” she said.
Over the years, there have been occasional calls for a giant umbrella to be built in Babinda to rival Tully’s gumboot, and Babinda cane farmer Angle Mustafa said he was all for it.

“We are the wettest town and sorry, Tully, you are second. Tully claims their gumboot, we say we’re the golden umbrella,” he said.

Strathgordon, TAS (cloudiest)

Babinda

Coober Pedy for me.

Close between Charlotte Pass and Coober Pedy

Coober Pedy for the great temps

Thanks for pointing Dampier out, I didn't realise it was sunnier. But I guess it's not too dissimilar to Port Hedland so wouldn't affect the votes too much.