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Has the climate in Perth changed?

Perth has warmed about 1.1°F since 1993.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Perth's official daily weather records, 1993–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Perth'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
+0.7°F
1970s
65.9°F
Recent
66.6°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
16 more days
1970s
44 / yr
Recent
60 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
4 fewer days
1970s
111 / yr
Recent
107 / yr
Drier on average

Perth's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1993 to 2025.

63°65°67°69°71°1993: 70.5°F1994: 65.7°F1995: 65.4°F1996: 65.7°F1997: 65.2°F1998: 65.4°F1999: 66.0°F2000: 65.7°F2001: 64.5°F2002: 65.4°F2003: 65.5°F2004: 65.4°F2005: 64.1°F2006: 65.4°F2007: 65.2°F2008: 65.2°F2009: 65.9°F2010: 65.8°F2011: 67.7°F2012: 66.9°F2013: 67.2°F2014: 66.9°F2015: 67.0°F2016: 65.1°F2017: 66.2°F2018: 65.8°F2019: 66.6°F2020: 66.9°F2021: 66.3°F2022: 66.4°F2023: 67.0°F2024: 68.3°F2025: 66.9°Flong-term trend19932000201020202025
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 8 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°January: +0.5°F+0.5JFebruary: +0.2°F+0.2FMarch: +0.6°F+0.6MApril: -0.2°F-0.2AMay: +0.0°F+0.0MJune: +0.3°F+0.3JJuly: +0.1°F+0.1JAugust: +0.3°F+0.3ASeptember: +0.1°F+0.1SOctober: +0.6°F+0.6ONovember: +0.8°F+0.8NDecember: -0.1°F-0.1D

November has warmed the most — about 0.8°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at Perth Metro, 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 →