Thursday 6 March 2025 - Seasonal Climate Summary for Greater Adelaide - Product code IDCKGC23L0
Greater Adelaide in summer 2025
Rainfall
- Rainfall totals for summer were below average at all sites across Adelaide and the Hills.
- Summer rainfall totals ranged from 21% of average at Mount Crawford to 47% of average at Kuitpo Forest Reserve.
Temperature
- Mean maximum temperatures for summer at all sites across Adelaide and the Hills were above average.
- Summer mean maximum temperatures for Adelaide and the Hills ranged from 1.5 °C above average at Adelaide Airport and Noarlunga to 3.9 °C above average at Mount Lofty.
- Mean minimum temperatures for summer at all sites across Adelaide and the Hills were above average.
- Summer mean minimum temperatures for Adelaide and the Hills ranged from 0.2 °C above average at Parafield Airport to 1.8 °C above average at Mount Barker.
- Mount Barker and Mount Lofty had their highest summer mean maximum temperature on record.
- Kuitpo Forest Reserve had its highest summer mean temperature on record.
- Mount Barker had its highest summer mean temperature for at least 20 years.
Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira)
- Total rainfall for Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) was 21.2 mm, which is 32% of the long-term average of 67.0 mm.
- The mean daily maximum temperature for Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) was 30.4 °C, which is 2.4 °C above the long-term average of 28.0 °C.
- The warmest day was 43.3 °C on 12 February 2025, and the coolest day was on 27 December 2024 when the temperature reached 21.8 °C.
- The mean daily minimum temperature for Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) was 16.9 °C, which is 0.7 °C above the long-term average of 16.2 °C.
- The coldest morning was 10.0 °C on 4 December 2024, and the warmest morning was on 16 December 2024 when the minimum temperature was 29.6 °C.
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Extremes in summer 2025 | |
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Hottest day |
44.5 °C at Parafield Airport on 12 February |
Warmest days on average |
31.7 °C at Parafield Airport |
Coolest days on average |
25.8 °C at Mount Lofty |
Coldest day |
16.2 °C at Mount Lofty on 27 December |
Coldest night |
6.6 °C at Mount Lofty on 16 February |
Coolest nights on average |
13.0 °C at Mount Lofty |
Warmest nights on average |
17.4 °C at Noarlunga |
Warmest night |
31.4 °C at Edinburgh RAAF on 16 December |
Warmest on average overall |
23.9 °C at Parafield Airport |
Coolest on average overall |
19.4 °C at Mount Lofty |
Wettest overall |
51.8 mm at Piccadilly (Mount Lofty Botanic Garden) |
Wettest day |
30.0 mm at Athelstone (Black Hill Alert) on 3 December |
Strongest wind gust |
78.0 km/h at Parafield Airport on 6 December 78.0 km/h at Adelaide Airport on 6 December 78.0 km/h at Mount Crawford AWS on 26 December |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
Record highest summer mean maximum temperature | |||||
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New record (°C) |
Old record |
Years of record |
Average for Summer |
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Mount Barker | 29.8 | 29.6 | in 2001 | 62 | 26.7 |
Mount Lofty | 25.8 | =25.8 | in 2019 | 31 | 22.5 |
Record highest summer mean temperature | |||||
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New record (°C) |
Old record |
Years of record |
Average for Summer |
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Kuitpo Forest Reserve | 20.9 | =20.9 | in 2019 | 25 | 19.4 |
Highest summer mean temperature for at least 20 years | |||||
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Observed (°C) |
Most recent higher |
Average for Summer |
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Mount Barker | 21.5 | 21.7 | in 2001 | 19.0 |
note: there may be gaps in the historical record at some sites, so it is possible more recent higher values have gone unreported
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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Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) | 30.4 | +2.4 | 43.3 | 12 Feb 2025 | 16.9 | +0.7 | 10.0 | 04 Dec 2024 | 21.2 | 67.0 | low | 32% |
Adelaide Airport | 28.9 | +1.5 | 41.5 | 12 Feb 2025 | 17.0 | +1.3 | 10.0 | 04 Dec 2024 | 16.6 | 60.7 | v low | 27% |
Edinburgh RAAF | 31.2 | +1.8 | 44.4 | 12 Feb 2025 | 16.4 | +0.4 | 10.0 | 04 Dec 2024 | 18.2 | 63.0 | low | 29% |
Kuitpo Forest Reserve | 27.1 | +1.9 | 41.0 | 12 Feb 2025 | 14.6 | +1.0 | 9.2 | 23 Dec 2024 | 41.6 | 88.8 | v low | 47% |
Mount Barker | 29.8 | +3.3 | 40.8 | 12 Feb 2025 | 13.3 | +1.8 | 7.8 | 17 Feb 2025 | 38.8 | 87.2 | low | 44% |
Mount Crawford AWS | 28.4 | +1.9 | 39.3 | 02 Feb 2025 | 13.8 | +0.4 | 7.7 | 07 Jan 2025 | 17.4 | 82.1 | v low | 21% |
Mount Lofty | 25.8 | +3.9 | 38.5 | 12 Feb 2025 | 13.0 | +1.0 | 6.6 | 16 Feb 2025 | 51.0 | 125.0 | lowest | 41% |
Noarlunga | 29.1 | +1.5 | 42.0 | 12 Feb 2025 | 17.4 | +1.0 | 11.8 | 11 Dec 2024 | 17.8 | 57.9 | lowest | 31% |
Parafield Airport | 31.7 | +2.6 | 44.5 | 12 Feb 2025 | 16.1 | +0.2 | 9.8 | 11 Dec 2024 | 19.2 | 64.5 | v low | 30% |
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 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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