The Atlas Almanac

December

What is in season across Australia this month — produce, wildlife, landscape and the working year. Every window below is a recurring annual one, taken from the body that manages or measures it, and reviewed before it appeared here.

Produce

Cherry harvest

Ladders down the rows, and fruit that will not wait — cherries are picked by hand and sold within days.

October–February

Adelaide HillsSA · Australian season; local picking is usually shorter
- Harben Vale CherriesBalhannah
- @Birdwood Pick Your Own CherriesBirdwood
- Charleston Cherries
- Kersbrook Cherry FarmKersbrook
East Coast TasmaniaTASDecember–February
- Freycinet ResortColes BayConfirmed
Great SouthernWA · Australian season; local picking is usually shorter
- The Floating ForestDenmarkConfirmed
Hobart & Southern TasmaniaTASDecember–February
- The Woodbridge TasmaniaNew NorfolkConfirmed
- Oneys Creek CherriesLachlan
Launceston & Tamar ValleyTASDecember–February
- Cherry Top Farmstay ~ Boutique Eco VillageLilydaleConfirmed
- Currawong LakesConfirmed
- Aunita CherriesMount Direction
- Rowella Cherry FarmRowella
Southern HighlandsNSW · Australian season; local picking is usually shorter
- Cherry Tree Hill WinesSutton Forest
Yarra ValleyVIC · Australian season; local picking is usually shorter
- Blue Hills Berries and CherriesSilvan
- Cherry HavenWandin East
- CherryHill OrchardsWandin East

Also in season in Goulburn Valley, Granite Belt, Macedon Ranges, Mudgee and Orange. No Atlas listing there answers this one yet.

Berry harvest

Fruit that bruises if you look at it, picked straight into the punnet it will sell in.

December–May

Cradle CountryTAS
- Turners Beach Berry PatchTurners Beach
Hobart & Southern TasmaniaTAS
- The Woodbridge TasmaniaNew NorfolkConfirmed
- Westerway Raspberry FarmWesterway
Launceston & Tamar ValleyTAS
- Cherry Top Farmstay ~ Boutique Eco VillageLilydaleConfirmed
- Currawong LakesConfirmed
- Hillwood BerriesHillwood

Wildlife

Turtle nesting

Females haul up the beaches they hatched on, dig, lay, and are back in the water before light.

December–February

BundabergQLD
- Mon Repos Turtle CentreMon Repos
Cairns & Tropical NorthQLD
- Hitching Rail RetreatLake TinarooConfirmed

Also in season in Capricorn Coast, Fraser Coast and Whitsundays. No Atlas listing there answers this one yet.

Landscape

The Wet

Roads close, the waterfalls run, and the country does the thing it spends the rest of the year waiting for.

November–March

In season in Broome & Kimberley, Cairns & Tropical North, Darwin & Top End and Katherine & Surrounds. No Atlas listing there answers this one yet.

Seasons move. A window here is the ordinary year for a region, not a forecast, and a cold spring or a wet autumn will shift it by weeks. Check with the place before you drive. Place counts are the Atlas listings whose location resolves to that region.