Australian Capital Territory in January 2025

Rainfall

  • Rainfall totals for January were average to above average across the Australian Capital Territory.
  • January rainfall totals ranged from 83% of average at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS to 139% of average across the territory.
  • The wettest day was the 12th when 72.2 mm rainfall was recorded at Mount Ginini AWS, which also recorded the wettest overall for the month with 129.4mm rainfall.
  • Mount Ginini AWS had its highest January daily rainfall on record.

Temperature

  • Mean maximum temperatures for January across the territory were below average.
  • January mean maximum temperatures for the territory ranged from -0.4 °C below average at Mount Ginini AWS to -1.0 °C below average at Canberra Airport.
  • The warmest day was the 28th when 37.5 °C was recorded at Canberra Airport. The coldest day was recorded at Mount Ginini AWS with 10.0 °C on the 7th.
  • Mean minimum temperatures for January varied from below average to above average at various sites across the territory.
  • January mean minimum temperatures for the territory ranged from -0.5 °C below average at Canberra Airport to +0.3 °C above average at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS.
  • The warmest night was the 27th when 18.3 °C was recorded at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS. The coldest night was the 17th, when 2.1 °C was recorded at Mount Ginini AWS.

Canberra Airport

  • Total rainfall for Canberra Airport was 70.2 mm, which is 126% of the long-term average at the current site of 55.9 mm.
  • The mean daily maximum temperature for Canberra Airport was 29.0 °C, which is 1.0 °C below the long-term average at the current site of 30.0 °C.
  • The warmest day was 37.5 °C on the 28th, and the coolest day was on the 23rd when the temperature reached 21.2 °C.
  • The mean daily minimum temperature for Canberra Airport was 13.7 °C, which is 0.5 °C below the long-term average at the current site of 14.2 °C.
  • The coldest morning was 6.6 °C on the 8th, and the warmest morning was on the 27th when the minimum temperature was 17.7 °C.

Extremes in January 2025
Hottest day 37.5 °C at Canberra Airport on the 28th
Warmest days on average 29.0 °C at Canberra Airport
Coolest days on average 20.3 °C at Mount Ginini AWS
Coldest day 10.0 °C at Mount Ginini AWS on the 7th
Coldest night 2.1 °C at Mount Ginini AWS on the 17th
Coolest nights on average 8.8 °C at Mount Ginini AWS
Warmest nights on average 14.8 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS
Warmest night 18.3 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS on the 27th
Warmest on average overall 21.8 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS
Coolest on average overall 14.5 °C at Mount Ginini AWS
Wettest overall 129.4 mm at Mount Ginini AWS
Wettest day 72.2 mm at Mount Ginini AWS on the 12th
Strongest wind gust 78.0 km/h at Canberra Airport on the 15th

Record highest January daily rainfall
New record
(mm)
Old
record
Years of
record
Average for
January
Mount Ginini AWS 72.2 on the 12th 57.0 on 07 Jan 2022 21 93.0




Summary statistics for January 2025
Maximum temperatures
(°C)
Minimum temperatures
(°C)
Rainfall
(millimetres)
Mean for
January
2025
Diff
from
average
Highest for
January
2025
Mean for
January
2025
Diff
from
average
Lowest for
January
2025
Total for
January
2025
Average
for
January
Rank of
January
2025
Fraction of
January
average
Canberra Airport 29.0 -1.0 37.5 28th 13.7 -0.5 6.6 8th 70.2 55.9 average 126%
Mount Ginini AWS 20.3 -0.4 26.6 28th 8.8 -1.2 2.1 17th 129.4 93.0 high 139%
Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS 28.8 -0.6 37.4 28th 14.8 +0.3 10.9 9th 51.0 61.3 average 83%

Daily maximum temperatures for January 2025
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Canberra Airport 32.3 22.9 31.0 34.9 36.4 34.4 21.3 23.1 28.2 24.6 27.4 30.3 32.9 32.6 35.9 24.8 25.5 23.3 25.1 29.8 32.8 32.7 21.2 25.2 29.1 26.7 36.3 37.5 27.8 27.0 26.7
Mount Ginini AWS 22.6 16.7 22.2 24.3 26.5 23.4 10.0 15.6 18.9 16.0 19.1 20.4 22.7 23.9 24.5 15.9 15.4 15.6 19.3 22.0 24.6 21.7 13.6 18.5 20.6 20.7 25.9 26.6 20.7 20.5 19.9
Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS 31.6 22.9 30.3 34.1 35.7 33.3 21.2 23.6 28.1 25.7 26.9 29.2 31.9 31.9 34.7 23.8 25.1 24.1 25.3 29.9 34.0 31.8 20.9 25.3 30.0 27.6 36.0 37.4 27.6 27.3 26.4
Values are the maximum temperature, usually in the 24 hours from 9 am on the day indicated,
and typically occurred in the afternoon of that day.
Temperatures coloured according to their difference
from the long-term average for the period
-10.0 -9.0 -8.0 -7.0 -6.0 -5.0 -4.0 -3.0 -2.0 -1.0 0.0 +1.0 +2.0 +3.0 +4.0 +5.0 +6.0 +7.0 +8.0 +9.0 +10.0 °C Grey outline marks highest
and lowest for the period

Daily minimum temperatures for January 2025
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Canberra Airport 17.3 16.0 13.4 12.3 14.9 13.1 16.4 6.6 11.3 14.1 15.9 16.2 13.2 17.2 16.9 14.5 9.7 13.2 13.9 8.3 12.7 14.1 12.4 13.1 10.7 12.8 17.7 16.1 14.6 10.9 14.5
Mount Ginini AWS 9.8 8.8 6.2 11.2 13.7 12.8 7.9 2.5 3.3 9.5 9.2 9.3 9.5 11.0 12.8 5.7 2.1 3.9 4.7 8.7 13.1 14.6 5.7 6.5 8.8 9.8 10.7 14.1 9.1 7.4 8.9
Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS 17.0 15.9 13.9 13.9 15.9 13.5 15.1 11.9 10.9 16.5 16.3 16.5 13.3 16.7 17.9 14.5 11.7 13.1 15.0 14.1 14.8 15.4 13.4 13.6 13.3 13.1 18.3 17.3 15.7 12.8 16.5
Values are the minimum temperature, usually in the 24 hours to 9 am on the day indicated,
and typically occurred that morning.
Temperatures coloured according to their difference
from the long-term average for the period
-10.0 -9.0 -8.0 -7.0 -6.0 -5.0 -4.0 -3.0 -2.0 -1.0 0.0 +1.0 +2.0 +3.0 +4.0 +5.0 +6.0 +7.0 +8.0 +9.0 +10.0 °C Grey outline marks highest
and lowest for the period

Daily rainfall for January 2025
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Aranda (Bindaga St) - - - - - - 1.8 - - - 9.4 6.0 6.0 4.2 - 18.4 - - - - - - - 3.2
Bruce (Australian Institute of Sport) - - - - - - 3.2 - - - 34.6 4.0 - 28.0 - - - - - - - 5.0
Canberra Airport - - - - - - 5.0 - - - 12.2 4.2 17.2 6.0 0.2 17.8 - - - - - - - 7.6 - - - - - - -
Mount Ginini AWS - - - - - - 1.0 - - - 17.4 72.2 - 9.0 0.2 24.0 - - - - - - - 4.8 0.2 - - - 0.2 - 0.4
Nicholls (Gungahlin Lakes) - - - - 4.2 - 3.0 - - - 3.0 14.2 3.8
Torrens (Darke St) - - - - 4.0 - 1.6 - - - 8.6 7.8 2.0 13.6 - 18.8 - - - - - - - 3.0
Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS - - - - - - 2.2 - - - 11.0 13.4 1.2 3.0 - 16.6 - - - - - - - 3.6 - - - - - - -
Most values are the precipitation in the 24 hours to 9 am on the day indicated. Days marked with → are part of a longer accumulation, which is shown on the final day.
Values over 100 mm have been rounded to the nearest whole millimetre.
Days marked with - have a rainfall report of zero; days left blank have no rainfall report (which often indicates no rain fell).
Rainfalls coloured
according to the amount
0 1.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 25.0 50.0 100 150 200 300 400 600 millimetres

Notes

The Monthly 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 Tuesday 4 February 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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