Best Time to Visit Uluru

May to September

Months to avoid: November to March (extreme heat, many walks closed, dangerous conditions)

Recommended stay: 2-3 days

Plan Uluru for May to September. Give it 2-3 days. The window to avoid is November to March (extreme heat, many walks closed, dangerous conditions).

What the season gets you

• The base walk circles the full 10.6km perimeter of Uluru at ground level, where you see waterholes, cave paintings, and rock faces that don't appear in any photograph
• Valley of the Winds at Kata Tjuta in the morning light: domed red rocks arranged in a way that makes the Uluru plain look small, which takes some doing
• Anangu-guided tours give the site context that standing there alone doesn't. The Tjukurpa creation stories make the landscape read differently afterward