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Has the climate in Coober Pedy changed?

Coober Pedy has warmed about 1.7°F since 1995.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Coober Pedy's official daily weather records, 1995–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Coober Pedy'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
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.0°F
1970s
69.1°F
Recent
70.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
18 more days
1970s
107 / yr
Recent
125 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
40 / yr
Recent
40 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Coober Pedy's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1995 to 2025.

67°69°71°73°1995: 68.1°F1996: 69.3°F1997: 68.4°F1998: 68.4°F1999: 69.3°F2000: 69.6°F2001: 68.7°F2002: 69.7°F2003: 69.7°F2004: 69.8°F2005: 70.2°F2006: 70.2°F2007: 70.2°F2008: 69.0°F2009: 70.4°F2010: 68.3°F2011: 69.6°F2012: 69.7°F2013: 71.4°F2014: 71.1°F2015: 70.2°F2016: 69.7°F2017: 70.6°F2018: 70.6°F2019: 71.3°F2020: 69.1°F2021: 68.8°F2022: 68.1°F2023: 70.5°F2024: 71.8°F2025: 71.1°Flong-term trend19952000201020202025
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 21 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 26 years of daily observations at Coober Pedy 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 →