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Has the climate in Orange changed?

Orange has warmed about 1.9°F since 1976.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Orange's official daily weather records, 1976–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Orange'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
5 fewer nights
1970s
24 / yr
Recent
19 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.2°F
1970s
54.2°F
Recent
55.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 more day
1970s
5 / yr
Recent
6 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
33 fewer days
1970s
138 / yr
Recent
105 / yr
Drier on average

Orange's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1976 to 2025.

51°53°55°57°59°1976: 52.8°F1977: 54.8°F1978: 53.7°F1979: 55.0°F1980: 56.2°F1981: 55.2°F1982: 55.0°F1983: 54.5°F1984: 52.7°F1985: 53.6°F1986: 53.3°F1987: 53.8°F1988: 54.7°F1989: 53.2°F1990: 54.4°F1991: 54.8°F1992: 52.4°F1993: 54.5°F1994: 54.0°F1995: 53.6°F1996: 53.4°F1997: 55.2°F1998: 55.1°F1999: 54.5°F2000: 54.3°F2001: 55.0°F2002: 56.0°F2003: 55.1°F2004: 55.9°F2005: 55.6°F2006: 55.9°F2007: 56.0°F2008: 53.9°F2009: 56.2°F2010: 54.6°F2011: 54.4°F2012: 54.3°F2013: 56.0°F2014: 55.7°F2015: 54.2°F2016: 56.7°F2017: 56.9°F2018: 56.0°F2019: 57.1°F2020: 54.6°F2021: 53.7°F2022: 53.3°F2023: 55.7°F2024: 56.7°F2025: 56.1°Flong-term trend1976198019902000201020202025
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 3 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +1.7°F+1.7JFebruary: +0.5°F+0.5FMarch: +0.3°F+0.3MApril: +1.0°F+1.0AMay: -0.1°F-0.1MJune: +0.9°F+0.9JJuly: +1.3°F+1.3JAugust: +0.3°F+0.3ASeptember: +1.3°F+1.3SOctober: +1.6°F+1.6ONovember: +1.8°F+1.8NDecember: +0.3°F+0.3D

November has warmed the most — about 1.8°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 28 years of daily observations at Orange Agricultural Institute, 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 →