Greater Adelaide in winter 2025

Rainfall

  • Rainfall totals for winter were above average at all sites across Greater Adelaide.
  • Winter rainfall totals ranged from around 105% to around 130% of average across Greater Adelaide.
  • Longwood alert highest total winter rainfall on record in 23 years of observations.

Temperature

  • Mean maximum temperatures for winter at most sites across Greater Adelaide were above average.
  • Winter mean maximum temperatures for Greater Adelaide ranged from exactly average at Mount Crawford AWS to 0.8 °C above average at Mount Lofty.
  • Mean minimum temperatures for winter at most sites across Greater Adelaide were above average.
  • Winter mean minimum temperatures for Greater Adelaide ranged from 0.1 °C below average at Mount Crawford AWS to 0.8 °C above average at Mount Barker and Adelaide Airport.

Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira)

  • Total rainfall for Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) was 230.4 mm, which is 116% of the long-term average of 198.3 mm.
  • The mean daily maximum temperature for Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) was 16.1 °C, which is 0.5 °C above the long-term average of 15.6 °C.
  • The warmest day was 22.0 °C on 22 June 2025, and the coolest day was on 9 July 2025 when the temperature reached 11.7 °C.
  • The mean daily minimum temperature for Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) was 8.6 °C, which is 0.6 °C above the long-term average of 8.0 °C.
  • The coldest morning was 2.9 °C on 1 July 2025, and the warmest morning was on 25 August 2025 when the minimum temperature was 15.1 °C.

Extremes in winter 2025
Hottest day 23.3 °C at Parafield Airport on 22 June
Warmest days on average 16.5 °C at Parafield Airport
Coolest days on average 10.3 °C at Mount Lofty
Coldest day 5.8 °C at Mount Lofty on 9 July
Coldest night 0.0 °C at Mount Barker on 19 August
Coolest nights on average 5.4 °C at Mount Lofty
Warmest nights on average 9.1 °C at Noarlunga
Warmest night 16.0 °C at Parafield Airport on 25 August
Warmest on average overall 12.4 °C at Noarlunga
12.4 °C at Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira)
Coolest on average overall 7.9 °C at Mount Lofty
Wettest overall 568.4 mm at Piccadilly (Woodhouse)
Wettest day 73.4 mm at Piccadilly (Woodhouse) on 10 July
Strongest wind gust 98.0 km/h at Outer Harbour (Black Pole) on 7 June

Record highest winter total rainfall
New record
(mm)
Old
record
Years of
record
Average for
Winter
Longwood Alert 514.0 495.4 in 2004 23 349.1




Summary statistics for winter 2025
Maximum temperatures
(°C)
Minimum temperatures
(°C)
Rainfall
(millimetres)
Mean for
Winter
2025
Diff
from
average
Highest for
Winter
2025
Mean for
Winter
2025
Diff
from
average
Lowest for
Winter
2025
Total for
Winter
2025
Average
for
Winter
Rank of
Winter
2025
Fraction of
Winter
average
Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) 16.1 +0.5 22.0 22 Jun 2025 8.6 +0.6 2.9 1 Jul 2025 230.4 198.3 high 116%
Adelaide Airport 15.9 +0.2 22.6 22 Jun 2025 8.3 +0.8 3.0 1 Jul 2025 194.8 163.9 high 119%
Edinburgh RAAF 16.1 +0.1 22.8 22 Jun 2025 7.2 +0.7 1.3 31 Jul 2025 187.4 154.0 high 122%
Kuitpo Forest Reserve 13.2 +0.2 19.9 22 Jun 2025 7.1 +0.1 3.7 30 Aug 2025 412.2 312.0 high 132%
Mount Barker 14.3 +0.6 20.2 22 Jun 2025 5.8 +0.8 0.0 19 Aug 2025 394.0 309.8 high 127%
Mount Crawford AWS 11.7 0.0 17.6 22 Jun 2025 6.1 -0.1 2.1 8 Aug 2025 328.0 273.7 high 120%
Mount Lofty 10.4 +0.8 16.4 22 Jun 2025 5.4 +0.1 1.2 8 Aug 2025 457.2 421.1 average 109%
Noarlunga 15.7 +0.2 21.8 22 Jun 2025 9.1 +0.1 4.6 31 Jul 2025 190.0 181.1 average 105%
Parafield Airport 16.5 +0.6 23.3 22 Jun 2025 6.8 +0.1 0.5 1 Jul 2025 180.8 165.0 average 110%

Notes

The Seasonal climate summary, usually published in the first week of the following month, lists the main features of the weather in Greater Adelaide 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 Adelaide “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 Tuesday 2 September 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 available years of record, excluding the current year. The length of record can vary widely from site to site. Averages are not shown for sites with fewer 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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