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Has the climate in Margaret River changed?

Margaret River has warmed about 1.2°F between 2000 and 2020.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Margaret River's official daily weather records, 2000–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Margaret River's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Australia.

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
1 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+0.8°F
1970s
60.4°F
Recent
61.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
2 more days
1970s
11 / yr
Recent
13 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
165 / yr
Recent
167 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Margaret River's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2000 to 2020.

58°60°62°64°2000: 60.7°F2001: 60.0°F2002: 60.8°F2003: 61.3°F2004: 60.6°F2005: 59.1°F2006: 60.1°F2007: 60.3°F2008: 60.3°F2009: 60.4°F2010: 60.7°F2011: 62.3°F2012: 61.9°F2013: 62.1°F2014: 61.6°F2015: 61.3°F2016: 60.3°F2017: 60.7°F2018: 61.6°F2019: 60.8°F2020: 61.5°Flong-term trend200020102020
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 4 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 21 years of daily observations at Witchcliffe, a weather station, about 9 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →