Tuesday 28 January 2025 - Annual Climate Summary for Australian Capital Territory - Product code IDCKGC55L0
Australian Capital Territory in 2024
Rainfall
- Rainfall totals for 2024 were below average at most sites across Australian Capital Territory.
- The 2024 rainfall totals ranged from around 87% at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS to 106% of average at Mount Ginini AWS.
- Mount Ginini AWS with 1150.2 mm was the wettest location for 2024 across the territory. It also recorded the wettest day of the year on 7 December with 65.0 mm rainfall.
- January 2024 was the wettest month of the year, when rainfall at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWA and Mount Ginini AWS were the highest January total on the record.
Temperature
- Mean maximum temperatures for 2024 at all sites across Australian Capital Territory were above average.
- The 2024 mean maximum temperatures for the territory ranged from 0.7 °C above average to 0.9 °C above average at Canberra Airport and Mount Ginini AWS, respectively.
- The warmest day was 35.3 °C recorded at Canberra Airport on 25 November and the coldest day was -3.4 °C recorded at Mount Ginini AWS on 28 July.
- Mean minimum temperatures for 2024 at all sites across the territory were above average.
- The 2024 mean minimum temperatures for the territory ranged from 0.3 °C above average to 0.7 °C above average at Canberra Airport and Mount Ginini AWS, respectively.
- The warmest night was 20.8 °C recorded at Canberra Airport on 26 January and the coldest night was -8.0 °C recorded at Mount Ginini AWS on 29 July.
Canberra Airport
- Total rainfall for Canberra Airport was 567.8 mm, which is 88% of the long-term average at the current site of 648.1 mm.
- The mean daily maximum temperature for Canberra Airport was 21.7 °C, which is 0.7 °C above the long-term average at the current site of 21.0 °C.
- The warmest day was 35.3 °C on 25 November 2024, and the coolest day was on 19 June 2024 when the temperature reached 8.4 °C.
- The mean daily minimum temperature for Canberra Airport was 7.1 °C, which is 0.3 °C above the long-term average at the current site of 6.8 °C.
- The coldest morning was -6.9 °C on 16 September 2024, and the warmest morning was on 26 January 2024 when the minimum temperature was 20.8 °C.
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
| Extremes in 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Hottest day |
35.3 °C at Canberra Airport on 25 November |
| Warmest days on average |
21.7 °C at Canberra Airport |
| Coolest days on average |
12.6 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Coldest day |
-3.4 °C at Mount Ginini AWS on 28 July |
| Coldest night |
-8.0 °C at Mount Ginini AWS on 29 July |
| Coolest nights on average |
4.2 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Warmest nights on average |
7.6 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
| Warmest night |
20.8 °C at Canberra Airport on 26 January |
| Warmest on average overall |
14.6 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
| Coolest on average overall |
8.4 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Wettest overall |
1150.2 mm at Mount Ginini AWS |
| Wettest day |
65.0 mm at Mount Ginini AWS on 7 December |
| Strongest wind gust |
94.0 km/h at Mount Ginini AWS on 28 August |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
| Summary statistics for 2024 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum temperatures (°C) |
Minimum temperatures (°C) |
Rainfall (millimetres) |
||||||||||
| Mean for year 2024 |
Diff from average |
Highest for year 2024 |
Mean for year 2024 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for year 2024 |
Total for year 2024 |
Average for year |
Rank of year 2024 |
Fraction of year average |
|||
| Canberra Airport | 21.7 | +0.7 | 35.3 | 25 Nov 2024 | 7.1 | +0.3 | -6.9 | 16 Sep 2024 | 567.8 | 648.1 | average | 88% |
| Mount Ginini AWS | 12.6 | +0.9 | 26.3 | 16 Dec 2024 | 4.2 | +0.7 | -8.0 | 29 Jul 2024 | 1150.2 | 1089.4 | average | 106% |
| Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS | 21.6 | +0.8 | 34.2 | 16 Dec 2024 | 7.6 | +0.6 | -6.3 | 19 Jun 2024 | 559.2 | 645.5 | average | 87% |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Notes
The Annual climate summary, 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 Tuesday 28 January 2025. 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 previous years of record, which vary widely from site to site.
They are not shown for sites with less 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.
Unless otherwise noted, all maps, graphs and diagrams in this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
