Thursday 6 March 2025 - Seasonal Climate Summary for Greater Brisbane - Product code IDCKGC24L0
Greater Brisbane in summer 2025
Rainfall
- Rainfall totals for summer were near average at most sites across Greater Brisbane.
- Summer rainfall totals ranged from around 80% to around 130% of average across Greater Brisbane.
Temperature
- Mean maximum temperatures for summer at most sites across Greater Brisbane were above average.
- Summer mean maximum temperatures for Greater Brisbane ranged from 1.6 °C above average at Cape Moreton Lighthouse to 0.1 °C below average at Beerburrum Forest Station.
- Mean minimum temperatures for summer at most sites across Greater Brisbane were above average.
- Summer mean minimum temperatures for Greater Brisbane ranged from 1.0 °C above average at Beerburrum Forest Station to 0.1 °C below average at Logan City Water Treatment Plant.
Brisbane
- Total rainfall for Brisbane was 561.2 mm, which is 128% of the long-term average of 437.6 mm.
- The mean daily maximum temperature for Brisbane was 30.4 °C, which is 0.3 °C above the long-term average of 30.1 °C.
- The warmest day was 37.4 °C on 16 January 2025, and the coolest day was on 11 January 2025 when the temperature reached 27.1 °C.
- The mean daily minimum temperature for Brisbane was 21.5 °C, which is 0.3 °C above the long-term average of 21.2 °C.
- The coldest morning was 18.3 °C on 7 January 2025, and the warmest morning was on 9 December 2024 when the minimum temperature was 25.3 °C.
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Extremes in summer 2025 | |
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Hottest day |
38.8 °C at Redcliffe on 16 January |
Warmest days on average |
31.8 °C at Amberley AMO |
Coolest days on average |
28.3 °C at Cape Moreton Lighthouse |
Coldest day |
24.4 °C at Cape Moreton Lighthouse on 11 January |
Coldest night |
14.5 °C at University of Queensland Gatton on 20 December |
Coolest nights on average |
19.3 °C at University of Queensland Gatton |
Warmest nights on average |
23.1 °C at Point Lookout |
Warmest night |
25.7 °C at Point Lookout on 16 January |
Warmest on average overall |
26.0 °C at Brisbane |
Coolest on average overall |
25.0 °C at Redland (Alexandra Hills) |
Wettest overall |
721.0 mm at Highvale |
Wettest day |
128.0 mm at Highvale on 1 December |
Strongest wind gust |
102.0 km/h at Cape Moreton Lighthouse on 18 December |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Summary statistics for summer 2025 | ||||||||||||
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Maximum temperatures (°C) |
Minimum temperatures (°C) |
Rainfall (millimetres) |
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Mean for Summer 2025 |
Diff from average |
Highest for Summer 2025 |
Mean for Summer 2025 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for Summer 2025 |
Total for Summer 2025 |
Average for Summer |
Rank of Summer 2025 |
Fraction of Summer average |
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Amberley AMO | 31.8 | +0.9 | 37.8 | 16 Jan 2025 | 19.7 | +0.5 | 15.0 | 28 Feb 2025 | 398.6 | 362.1 | high | 110% |
Archerfield Airport | 30.8 | +0.7 | 37.4 | 16 Jan 2025 | 20.7 | +0.8 | 16.3 | 05 Jan 2025 | 358.8 | 417.3 | average | 86% |
Beaudesert Drumley Street | 31.1 | +0.2 | 36.9 | 22 Jan 2025 | 19.4 | +0.5 | 15.1 | 05 Jan 2025 | 345.2 | 372.2 | average | 93% |
Beerburrum Forest Station | 29.8 | -0.1 | 37.7 | 16 Jan 2025 | 20.4 | +1.0 | 16.4 | 07 Jan 2025 | 597.6 | 576.9 | average | 104% |
Brisbane | 30.4 | +0.3 | 37.4 | 16 Jan 2025 | 21.5 | +0.3 | 18.3 | 07 Jan 2025 | 561.2 | 437.6 | high | 128% |
Brisbane Aero | 29.2 | +0.4 | 38.1 | 16 Jan 2025 | 21.6 | +0.6 | 17.4 | 17 Jan 2025 | 404.2 | 414.8 | average | 97% |
Cape Moreton Lighthouse | 28.3 | +1.6 | 31.6 | 12 Feb 2025 | 22.6 | +0.9 | 18.1 | 03 Jan 2025 | 405.6 | 430.3 | average | 94% |
Logan City Water Treatment Plant | 30.0 | +0.4 | 37.2 | 22 Jan 2025 | 20.1 | -0.1 | 16.3 | 26 Dec 2024 | 384.3 | 409.2 | average | 94% |
Point Lookout | 35.6 | 31 Jan 2025 | 23.0 | +0.8 | 18.9 | 03 Jan 2025 | 350.9 | 435.7 | average | 80% | ||
Redcliffe | 29.2 | +0.4 | 38.8 | 16 Jan 2025 | 22.1 | +0.3 | 18.3 | 07 Jan 2025 | 482.4 | 419.0 | high | 115% |
Redland (Alexandra Hills) | 29.1 | 33.5 | 16 Jan 2025 | 20.9 | 16.3 | 17 Jan 2025 | 495.8 | |||||
University of Queensland Gatton | 31.8 | +0.5 | 37.7 | 22 Jan 2025 | 19.3 | +0.6 | 14.5 | 28 Feb 2025 | 288.4 | 306.0 | average | 94% |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Notes
The Seasonal climate summary, usually published in the first week of the following month, lists the main features of the weather in Greater Brisbane 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 Brisbane “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 6 March 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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