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Has the climate in Toowoomba changed?

Toowoomba has warmed about 1.3°F since 1997.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Toowoomba's official daily weather records, 1997–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Toowoomba's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Australia — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
1 fewer night
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
1 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+0.9°F
1970s
64.0°F
Recent
64.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
5 more days
1970s
17 / yr
Recent
22 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
10 more days
1970s
102 / yr
Recent
112 / yr
Wetter on average

Toowoomba's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1997 to 2025.

60°62°64°66°68°1997: 63.9°F1998: 64.3°F1999: 61.7°F2000: 63.4°F2001: 63.9°F2002: 64.9°F2003: 63.4°F2004: 64.6°F2005: 65.5°F2006: 64.5°F2007: 64.4°F2008: 62.9°F2009: 65.1°F2010: 62.9°F2011: 62.6°F2012: 63.4°F2013: 64.2°F2014: 65.0°F2015: 64.0°F2016: 65.2°F2017: 65.6°F2018: 65.2°F2019: 66.3°F2020: 65.2°F2021: 63.4°F2022: 62.3°F2023: 65.1°F2024: 65.5°F2025: 64.9°Flong-term trend19972000201020202025
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 7 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: +1.6°F+1.6JFebruary: +0.6°F+0.6FMarch: -0.6°F-0.6MApril: +0.5°F+0.5AMay: +0.1°F+0.1MJune: +1.3°F+1.3JJuly: +0.8°F+0.8JAugust: +0.4°F+0.4ASeptember: +0.2°F+0.2SOctober: +1.0°F+1.0ONovember: +2.2°F+2.2NDecember: +0.8°F+0.8D

November has warmed the most — about 2.2°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 25 years of daily observations at Toowoomba Airport, a weather station, about 4 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →