Thursday 23 January 2025 - Annual Climate Summary for Greater Melbourne - Product code IDCKGC56L0
Greater Melbourne in 2024
Rainfall
- Rainfall totals for 2024 were close to average at most sites across Greater Melbourne.
- 2024 rainfall totals ranged from around 77% to around 108% of average across Greater Melbourne.
- Coldstream and Willowmavin (Avalon Station) had their highest year daily rainfall on record on 8 January due to a broad band of rain with embedded thunderstorms, associated with a slow-moving low pressure trough which advected tropical moisture into south-eastern Australia.
Temperature
- Mean maximum temperatures for 2024 at all sites across Greater Melbourne were above average.
- 2024 mean maximum temperatures for Greater Melbourne ranged from 0.3 °C above average at Melbourne (Olympic Park) to 1.4 °C above average at Essendon Airport.
- Mean minimum temperatures for 2024 at all sites across Greater Melbourne were near to above average.
- 2024 mean minimum temperatures for Greater Melbourne ranged from near average at Viewbank to 1.5 °C above average at Essendon Airport.
- Essendon Airport had its equal highest annual mean minimum temperature on record, tied with 2023, at 11 °C.
- Laverton RAAF and Essendon Airport had their highest annual mean temperature on record.
Melbourne (Olympic Park)
- Total rainfall for Melbourne (Olympic Park) was 591.8 mm, which was 103% of the long-term average of 576.8 mm.
- The mean daily maximum temperature for Melbourne (Olympic Park) was 20.7 °C, which was 0.3 °C above the long-term average of 20.4 °C.
- The warmest day was 39.4 °C on 16 December 2024, and the coolest day was on 13 June 2024 when the temperature reached 10.1 °C.
- The mean daily minimum temperature for Melbourne (Olympic Park) was 11.8 °C, which was 0.1 °C above the long-term average of 11.7 °C.
- The coldest morning was 1.0 °C on 3 July 2024, and the warmest morning was on 12 March 2024 when the minimum temperature was 22.8 °C.
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Extremes in 2024 | |
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Hottest day |
41.3 °C at Point Cook RAAF on 16 December |
Warmest days on average |
21.6 °C at Viewbank |
Coolest days on average |
17.3 °C at Ferny Creek |
Coldest day |
6.2 °C at Wallan (Kilmore Gap) on 13 June |
Coldest night |
-4.5 °C at Coldstream on 19 June |
Coolest nights on average |
7.6 °C at Coldstream |
Warmest nights on average |
11.8 °C at Melbourne (Olympic Park) |
Warmest night |
26.2 °C at Melbourne Airport on 10 March |
Warmest on average overall |
16.2 °C at Melbourne (Olympic Park) |
Coolest on average overall |
13.1 °C at Wallan (Kilmore Gap) |
Wettest overall |
1417.6 mm at Ferny Creek |
Wettest day |
136.6 mm at Willowmavin (Avalon Station) on 8 January |
Strongest wind gust |
141.0 km/h at Fawkner Beacon on 2 September |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Record highest year daily rainfall | ||||||
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New record (mm) |
Old record |
Years of record |
Average for year |
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Coldstream | 76.2 | on 8 January | 76.0 | on 05 Feb 2011 | 29 | 760.8 |
Willowmavin (Avalon Station) | 136.6 | on 8 January | 96.2 | on 05 Mar 2020 | 22 | 680.1 |
Record highest year mean minimum temperature | |||||
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New record (°C) |
Old record |
Years of record |
Average for year |
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Essendon Airport | 11.0 | =11.0 | in 2023 | 50 | 9.5 |
Record highest year mean temperature | |||||
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New record (°C) |
Old record |
Years of record |
Average for year |
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Laverton RAAF | 15.9 | =15.9 | in 2007 | 76 | 14.6 |
Essendon Airport | 16.1 | 16.0 | in 2019 | 50 | 14.6 |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Summary statistics for 2024 | ||||||||||||
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Maximum temperatures (°C) |
Minimum temperatures (°C) |
Rainfall (millimetres) |
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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 |
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Cerberus | 19.8 | +0.6 | 38.6 | 10 Mar 2024 | 10.1 | +0.2 | -2.0 | 03 Jul 2024 | 557.0 | 721.3 | low | 77% |
Coldstream | 21.0 | +0.5 | 36.9 | 26 Dec 2024 | 7.6 | +0.1 | -4.5 | 19 Jun 2024 | 804.6 | 757.6 | high | 106% |
Essendon Airport | 21.2 | +1.4 | 40.2 | 16 Dec 2024 | 11.0 | +1.5 | -0.7 | 19 Jun 2024 | 478.0 | 586.5 | low | 82% |
Ferny Creek | 17.3 | +0.5 | 33.6 | 10 Mar 2024 | 9.2 | +0.2 | 1.3 | 28 Jul 2024 | 1417.6 | 1310.1 | average | 108% |
Frankston (Ballam Park) | 20.2 | 37.7 | 09 Mar 2024 | 10.7 | -0.3 | 07 Jul 2024 | 671.2 | |||||
Laverton RAAF | 21.1 | +1.3 | 40.9 | 16 Dec 2024 | 10.7 | +1.3 | -1.1 | 03 Jul 2024 | 434.2 | 535.4 | low | 81% |
Melbourne (Olympic Park) | 20.7 | +0.3 | 39.4 | 16 Dec 2024 | 11.8 | +0.1 | 1.0 | 03 Jul 2024 | 591.8 | 576.8 | average | 103% |
Melbourne Airport | 21.0 | +1.1 | 40.8 | 16 Dec 2024 | 10.1 | +0.5 | -0.9 | 03 Jul 2024 | 470.4 | 538.6 | average | 87% |
Moorabbin Airport | 20.6 | +0.7 | 39.0 | 16 Dec 2024 | 10.8 | +0.6 | -1.3 | 03 Jul 2024 | 720.4 | 704.3 | average | 102% |
Point Cook RAAF | 20.4 | 41.3 | 16 Dec 2024 | 10.7 | -1.6 | 03 Jul 2024 | 442.6 | |||||
Scoresby Research Institute | 20.9 | +1.1 | 37.5 | 26 Dec 2024 | 10.0 | +0.4 | -1.8 | 03 Jul 2024 | 750.4 | 855.1 | low | 88% |
Viewbank | 21.6 | +0.7 | 39.0 | 16 Dec 2024 | 10.0 | 0.0 | -2.1 | 03 Jul 2024 | 686.8 | 679.2 | average | 101% |
Wallan (Kilmore Gap) | 17.7 | +0.8 | 36.6 | 16 Dec 2024 | 8.5 | +0.4 | 1.2 | 28 Jul 2024 | 657.2 | 699.9 | average | 94% |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Notes
The Monthly climate summary, usually published in the first week of the following month, lists the main features of the weather in Greater Melbourne using the most timely and accurate information available on the date of publication; it will generally not be updated.
This summary includes data from observing sites in or near the Greater Melbourne “Greater Capital City Statistical Area” (GCCSA). The Australian Bureau of Statistics designed the GCCSAs to represent a socio-economic definition of each capital city. This means the greater capital city boundary includes people who regularly socialise, shop or work within the capital city, but live in the small towns and rural areas surrounding the capital city. It does not define the built up edge of the capital city.
This statement has been prepared based on information available on Thursday 23 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.
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