Greater Perth in autumn 2025

Rainfall

  • Rainfall totals for autumn were below average at all sites across Greater Perth.
  • Autumn rainfall totals ranged from around 42% to around 68% of average across Greater Perth.
  • Perth Metro recorded 90.6 mm in autumn, which was below its average May rainfall (141.9 mm), although it was wetter than May 2024 (78.8 mm).

Temperature

  • Mean maximum temperatures for autumn at all sites across Greater Perth were above average.
  • Autumn mean maximum temperatures for Greater Perth ranged from 1.2 °C above average at Mandurah to 2.7 °C above average at Perth Airport.
  • Mean minimum temperatures for autumn at all sites across Greater Perth were above average.
  • Autumn mean minimum temperatures for Greater Perth ranged from 0.5 °C above average at Garden Island HSF to 1.4 °C above average at Karnet.
  • Perth Airport, Pearce RAAF and Bickley had or equalled their highest autumn mean maximum temperature on record.
  • Perth Metro recorded a mean maximum temperature of 27.6 °C, which was 1.6 °C above average, and the second-warmest autumn on record, behind the record in 2024 with a mean maximum temperature of 27.8 °C.

Perth Metro

  • Total rainfall for Perth Metro was 90.6 mm, which is 64% of the long-term average of 141.9 mm.
  • The mean daily maximum temperature for Perth Metro was 27.6 °C, which is 1.6 °C above the long-term average of 26.0 °C.
  • The warmest day was 40.3 °C on 6 March 2025, and the coolest day was on 23 May 2025 when the temperature reached 16.2 °C.
  • The mean daily minimum temperature for Perth Metro was 14.6 °C, which is 0.9 °C above the long-term average of 13.7 °C.
  • The coldest morning was 4.2 °C on 26 May 2025, and the warmest morning was on 6 March 2025 when the minimum temperature was 20.9 °C.

Extremes in autumn 2025
Hottest day 42.5 °C at Pearce RAAF on 6 March
Warmest days on average 28.9 °C at Pearce RAAF
Coolest days on average 25.2 °C at Rottnest Island
Coldest day 13.6 °C at Bickley on 23 May
Coldest night 2.5 °C at Jandakot Aero on 20 May
Coolest nights on average 13.2 °C at Karnet
Warmest nights on average 18.0 °C at Rottnest Island
Warmest night 24.7 °C at Millendon (Swan Valley) on 27 March
Warmest on average overall 21.8 °C at Pearce RAAF
Coolest on average overall 19.3 °C at Bickley
Wettest overall 116.4 mm at Bickley
Wettest day 30.6 mm at Gidgegannup on 14 March
30.6 mm at Swanbourne on 25 May
Strongest wind gust 91.0 km/h at Perth Airport on 4 April

Record highest autumn mean maximum temperature
New record
(°C)
Old
record
Years of
record
Average for
Autumn
Perth Airport 28.5 =28.5 in 2024 80 25.8
Pearce RAAF 28.9 28.8 in 2024 45 26.5
Bickley 25.4 =25.4 in 2024 30 23.5



Record highest autumn mean temperature
New record
(°C)
Old
record
Years of
record
Average for
Autumn
Karnet 19.4 =19.4 in 2024 42 17.6
Bickley 19.3 =19.3 in 2011 26 18.0




Summary statistics for autumn 2025
Maximum temperatures
(°C)
Minimum temperatures
(°C)
Rainfall
(millimetres)
Mean for
Autumn
2025
Diff
from
average
Highest for
Autumn
2025
Mean for
Autumn
2025
Diff
from
average
Lowest for
Autumn
2025
Total for
Autumn
2025
Average
for
Autumn
Rank of
Autumn
2025
Fraction of
Autumn
average
Bickley 25.4 +1.9 38.8 6 Mar 2025 13.3 +0.8 4.8 27 May 2025 116.4 209.9 low 56%
Garden Island HSF 25.7 +1.5 38.7 6 Mar 2025 16.6 +0.5 10.2 26 May 2025 78.6 128.3 low 61%
Jandakot Aero 27.7 +1.8 40.3 24 Mar 2025 13.5 +1.0 2.5 20 May 2025 85.2 162.0 low 53%
Karnet 25.5 +2.0 37.8 6 Mar 2025 13.2 +1.4 3.4 24 May 2025 95.8 226.7 v low 42%
Mandurah 25.6 +1.2 35.5 6 Mar 2025 16.5 +0.7 8.4 26 May 2025 56.8 135.4 lowest 42%
Millendon (Swan Valley) 28.7 42.1 6 Mar 2025 14.1 3.9 26 May 2025 65.8
Pearce RAAF 28.9 +2.5 42.5 6 Mar 2025 14.7 +1.3 5.1 26 May 2025 79.0 132.2 low 60%
Perth Airport 28.5 +2.7 41.5 6 Mar 2025 14.1 +1.0 3.4 26 May 2025 85.4 152.0 low 56%
Perth Metro 27.6 +1.6 40.3 6 Mar 2025 14.6 +0.9 4.2 26 May 2025 90.6 141.9 low 64%
Rottnest Island 25.2 +1.5 37.7 6 Mar 2025 18.0 +0.9 11.6 26 May 2025 81.2 121.3 low 67%
Swanbourne 26.8 +1.4 39.6 27 Mar 2025 16.0 +0.9 7.0 26 May 2025 100.0 147.6 low 68%

Notes

The Seasonal climate summary, usually published in the first week of the following month, lists the main features of the weather in Greater Perth 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 Perth “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 3 June 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.

Creative Commons By Attribution logo Unless otherwise noted, all maps, graphs and diagrams in this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Climate