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Emergency services were called following reports of an unresponsive woman at an address in the suburb of Manunda.
She died a short time later.
The man, known to her, was taken into custody at the scene.
Officers charged the man with murder today and he was refused police bail.
He will appear in Cairns Magistrates Court on Monday.