Australia in Winter 2025

In brief

• The national area-averaged winter rainfall total was 8% below average.

• Rainfall was below average for large parts of Australia's north and south-east.

• Winter rainfall was above average for parts of southern Western Australia and South Australia, eastern New South Wales, northern Queensland and areas in central Victoria and far north-western Northen Territory.

• Australia's area-averaged mean temperature was 0.48 °C above the 1961–1990 average for winter.

• Australia's area-averaged mean maximum temperature for winter was 0.83 °C above the 1961–1990 average.

• Mean maximum temperatures were average or above average across Australia.

• Australia's area-averaged mean minimum temperature was 0.11 °C above the 1961–1990 average, the lowest since 2018.

• Mean minimum temperatures were above average for large areas in the west, south and north-east and scattered areas in the south-east of Australia. Mean minimum temperatures were below average for large parts in the north and south-east of the mainland.

Further information and tables of records for each state and Territory are available in the individual regional climate summaries, to be issued on 3 September. For discussion of events during winter, see the individual monthly climate summaries for Australia for June, July and August.

Temperatures

Australia's national area-averaged mean temperature for winter was 0.48 °C above the 1961–1990 average for winter.

The national area-averaged mean temperature for each winter month was above average.

Australia's area-averaged mean maximum temperature was 0.83 °C above average.

Tasmania had its sixth-warmest winter on record since national observations started in 1910, 0.98 °C above average.

Mean maximum temperatures were above average to very much above average (in the highest 10% of all winters since 1910) for most of Australia. Maximum temperatures this winter were the highest on record for an area of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland.

The national mean minimum temperature was just 0.11 °C above the 1961–1990 average for winter.

The area-averaged mean minimum temperature for the Northern Territory was 0.68 °C below average, the lowest since 2014.

Mean minimum temperatures for winter were above average to very much above average (in the highest 10% of all winters since 1910) for large parts of Western Australia, South Australia and northern Queensland and areas in the south-east of the mainland and south-western Northern Territory. Mean minimum temperatures were above average for northern and southern Tasmania.

Mean minimum temperatures were below to very much below average (in the lowest 10% of all winters since 1910) for large parts of the Northern Territory, central and northern Western Australia and south-western and central Queensland. They were below average for central and western New South Wales and northern and south-eastern Victoria.

Rank ranges from 1 (lowest) to 116 (highest). A rank marked with ’=‘ indicates the value is tied for that rank. Anomaly is the departure from the long-term (1961–1990) average.

Rainfall

The national area-averaged winter rainfall total was 8% below the 1961–1990 average.

Nationally, June was drier than average while July and August were wetter than average.

Rainfall for winter was above to very much above average (in the highest 10% of all winters since 1900) for parts of southern Western Australia, northern Queensland, eastern New South Wales and areas of north-western Northen Territory. Rainfall was above average for parts of southern South Australia and central Victoria.

Rainfall was below to very much below average for large parts of the Northern Territory, central New South Wales and Tasmania, and below average for areas in northern Western Australia and south-western and central Queensland.

Significant weather and records

For discussion of events during winter see the individual monthly climate summaries for Australia for June, July and August.

Further information and tables of records for each state and the Northern Territory can be found in the individual regional climate summaries, to be issued on 3 September.

Rank ranges from 1 (lowest) to 126 (highest). A rank marked with ’=‘ indicates the value is tied for that rank. Departure from mean is relative to the long-term (1961–1990) average.