Tuesday 3 June 2025 - Seasonal Climate Summary for Greater Perth - Product code IDCKGC21L0
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 Records Summaries Important notes the top
| 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 |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
| 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 |
Extremes Records Summaries Important notes the top
| Summary statistics for autumn 2025 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum temperatures (°C) |
Minimum temperatures (°C) |
Rainfall (millimetres) |
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| 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 |
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| 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% |
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 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.
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