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Australia mango export season

Mango season in Australia: October–December, with January and September at the shoulders. Lands October–January via Australia → Hong Kong.

Ships
October–December
January, September at the shoulders
Lands
week 41–3
on the Australia → Hong Kong run, 11–18 days
Australia mangos: the export window by month, and the weeks each lane lands it.
Stage Month
Ships out of Australia Ships october–december peak · january, september shoulder
Australia → Hong Kong 11–18 days · week 41–3 Lands week 41–3 on the Australia → Hong Kong run
Australia → United States 18–26 days · week 42–4 Lands week 42–4 on the Australia → United States run
Peak Shoulder Landing Port to port, across services rather than one schedule. Add the road leg at either end.

Varieties Kensington Pride, Calypso, R2E2 Load ports Melbourne, Sydney, Fremantle, and Brisbane

Roughly September to January, starting in the Northern Territory around Darwin and moving south through Queensland as the season runs. It is the Southern Hemisphere spring window, and it hands over to the South American origins rather than competing with them.

The Northern Territory and Queensland grow about 95% of the crop, which averages around 70,000 tonnes. The industry’s own calendar starts the harvest in the Northern Territory in July or August, Western Australia in September or October and Queensland in October or November. Early fruit comes out of Darwin in August, but the Territory usually gets going in mid-September. Katherine and Mataranka follow, and Queensland’s Burdekin, Bowen and Mareeba districts carry November and December. About 75% of the crop is picked in October, November and December, and the season runs on into March on late varieties such as Keitt and Palmer.

Kensington Pride is still the Australian mango, at 40% of production over five years. Calypso is 21%, R2E2 18%, Honey Gold 11% and Keitt 3%. Which one is in the box depends on the week as much as on the buyer, because the varieties and the regions come in at different times.

A large share of the crop stays in Australia and a large share of what is exported flies. By the industry association’s figures, exports were 7–13% of the crop in the seasons to 2021/22. New Zealand was the largest market in 2021/22 with a third of exports, ahead of Singapore and Hong Kong; Hong Kong had been the largest until a few seasons earlier. Access rules differ by market. Hong Kong and Singapore need no treatment, Japan requires vapour heat treatment, and China accepts vapour heat, forced hot air or hot water.

What goes by sea is the volume with a programme behind it into Asia, and it is fruit shipped hard and ripened at destination — so a late arrival is late, not recoverable by ripening faster. Sea freight in controlled-atmosphere containers to Japan and China was first used in 2009/10, and it saved about A$5 a carton against air. Temperature is the other constraint. Research on Kensington Pride found chilling injury in fruit stored below 13°C, showing up during ripening.

The start moves with the dry season. Northern Territory trees flower between April and August, and when the cool weather arrives decides when they flower. In 2024 the Territory started late. In 2025 Darwin forecast 2.2 million trays, the same as the year before, and mild weather stretched the harvest.

Sources

Last reviewed August 2026. Editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule. Weather moves them, sometimes by weeks.

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