Thursday 5 February 2026 - Annual Climate Summary for Australian Capital Territory - Product code IDCKGC55L0
Australian Capital Territory in 2025
Rainfall
- Rainfall totals for 2025 were below average at all sites across Australian Capital Territory.
- 2025 rainfall totals ranged from around 70% to around 90% of average across the Territory.
- The wettest day was 84.2 mm at Mount Ginini AWS on 23 May, where the wettest overall was also recorded with 1003.2mm.
Temperature
- Mean maximum temperatures for 2025 at all sites across the Territory were above average.
- 2025 mean maximum temperatures for the Territory ranged from 0.5 °C above average at Mount Ginini AWS to 0.9 °C above average at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS.
- The warmest day was 39.4 °C at Canberra Airport on 19 December, and the coldest day was -2.3 °C at Mount Ginini AWS on 8 June.
- Mean minimum temperatures for 2025 were below average to above across the Territory.
- 2025 mean minimum temperatures for the Territory ranged from 0.3 °C below average at Canberra Airport to 0.1 °C above average at Mount Ginini AWS.
- The warmest night was 19.8 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS on 5 February, and the coldest night was -7.8 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS on 22 June.
Canberra Airport
- Total rainfall for Canberra Airport was 535.0 mm, which is 83% of the long-term average at the current location of 643.1 mm.
- The mean daily maximum temperature for Canberra Airport was 21.8 °C, which is 0.8 °C above the long-term average at the current location of 21.0 °C.
- The warmest day was 39.4 °C on 19 December 2025, and the coolest day was on 8 June 2025 when the temperature reached 7.3 °C.
- The mean daily minimum temperature for Canberra Airport was 6.5 °C, which is 0.3 °C below the long-term average at the current location of 6.8 °C.
- The coldest morning was -7.6 °C on 21 June 2025, and the warmest morning was on 5 February 2025 when the minimum temperature was 19.8 °C.
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
| Extremes in 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Hottest day |
39.4 °C at Canberra Airport on 19 December |
| Warmest days on average |
21.8 °C at Canberra Airport |
| Coolest days on average |
12.2 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Coldest day |
-2.3 °C at Mount Ginini AWS on 8 June |
| Coldest night |
-7.8 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS on 22 June |
| Coolest nights on average |
3.6 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Warmest nights on average |
7.0 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
| Warmest night |
19.8 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS on 5 February |
| Warmest on average overall |
14.3 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
| Coolest on average overall |
7.9 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Wettest overall |
1003.2 mm at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Wettest day |
84.2 mm at Mount Ginini AWS on 23 May |
| Strongest wind gust |
94.0 km/h at Mount Ginini AWS on 26 November |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
| Summary statistics for 2025 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum temperatures (°C) |
Minimum temperatures (°C) |
Rainfall (millimetres) |
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| Mean for year 2025 |
Diff from average |
Highest for year 2025 |
Mean for year 2025 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for year 2025 |
Total for year 2025 |
Average for year |
Rank of year 2025 |
Fraction of year average |
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| Canberra Airport | 21.8 | +0.8 | 39.4 | 19 Dec 2025 | 6.5 | -0.3 | -7.6 | 21 Jun 2025 | 535.0 | 643.1 | average | 83% |
| Mount Ginini AWS | 12.2 | +0.5 | 27.4 | 19 Dec 2025 | 3.6 | +0.1 | -7.0 | 26 Jun 2025 | 1003.2 | 1092.6 | average | 92% |
| Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS | 21.7 | +0.9 | 38.3 | 19 Dec 2025 | 7.0 | 0.0 | -7.8 | 22 Jun 2025 | 461.8 | 642.1 | low | 72% |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Notes
The Annual climate summary, usually published in the first week of the following month, lists the main features of the weather in Australian Capital Territory using the most timely and accurate information available on the date of publication; it will generally not be updated.
This statement has been prepared based on information available on Thursday 5 February 2026. Some checks have been made on the data, but it is possible that results will change as new information becomes available.
In some situations, some or all of the rainfall is in the form of hail or snow. In these cases, the totals given are for the water equivalent: the depth of liquid water that results from melting any frozen precipitation. There can be significant 'undercatch' of snow in strong winds, meaning the true precipitation can be higher than that reported.
Averages for individual sites are long-term means based on observations from
all available years of record, excluding the current year. The length of record can
vary widely from site to site. Averages are not shown for sites with fewer than
10 years of record, as they cannot then be calculated reliably.
The median
is sometimes more representative than the
mean
of long-term average rain.
The Rank indicates how rainfall this time compares with the climate record for the site,
based on the
decile ranking
(very low rainfall is in decile 1, low in decile 2 or 3,
average in decile 4 to 7, high in decile 8 or 9
and very high is in decile 10).
The Fraction of average shows how much rain has fallen this time as a
percentage of the long-term mean.
Where temperature area averages are mentioned, they are derived from the ACORN-SAT dataset.
Information about Australian Indigenous seasonal calendars is available at the Indigenous Weather Knowledge website.
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