Tuesday 2 September 2025 - Seasonal Climate Summary for Greater Adelaide - Product code IDCKGC23L0
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 Records Summaries Important notes the top
Extremes in winter 2025 | |
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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 |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Record highest winter total rainfall | |||||
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New record (mm) |
Old record |
Years of record |
Average for Winter |
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Longwood Alert | 514.0 | 495.4 | in 2004 | 23 | 349.1 |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Summary statistics for winter 2025 | ||||||||||||
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Maximum temperatures (°C) |
Minimum temperatures (°C) |
Rainfall (millimetres) |
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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 |
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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% |
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 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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