Cooma Visitors Centre is a weather station located 778 m above sea level, 1 km from Cooma. Its records go back to 1974: 32 years of temperature are available up to 2025, along with rainfall and a comparison with two reference normals. Over the whole series (32 years) the annual mean temperature there is 11.8 °C; the 1961–1990 and 1991–2020 reference periods are not documented well enough for a comparison. The warmest year of the series is 1988 (12.6 °C) and the coldest 1984 (10.4 °C). The last complete year, 2017, ranks 10 out of 32, from warmest to coldest. Over 1974–2025, the annual mean temperature changes by +0.04 °C per decade. The station ranks 219 out of 227 stations, from the fastest rise to the slowest.
Annual mean temperature since 1974
The first ten years of the series (1975–1985) average 11.8 °C; the last ten (2008–2017) average 11.9 °C, a difference of +0.1 °C. Of the ten warmest years in the series, 4 fall after 1999. The warmest is 1988 (12.6 °C). The ten-year running mean peaks at 12.0 °C (1983) and bottoms out at 11.7 °C (2013).
Annual rainfall since 1974
On average 533 mm of rain falls per year over the 45 documented years. The wettest year, 2012, received 813 mm; the driest, 2018, only 291 mm, which is 2.8 times less. Over 1991–2020, February is on average the wettest month (68 mm) and May the driest (24 mm). Between 1999 and 2025, 11 years out of 20 exceeded the series average.
Records at Cooma Visitors Centre
- Warmest year: 12.6 °C, in 1988
- Coldest year: 10.4 °C, in 1984
- Driest year: 291 mm, in 2018
- Wettest year: 813 mm, in 2012
- Warmest month: 21.3 °C, in January 1981
- Coldest month: 3.3 °C, in July 1995
- Wettest month: 285 mm, in February 2012
- Hottest day: 40.0 °C, on 31 January 2020
- Coldest day: −11.5 °C, on 16 June 1992
- Heaviest rain in one day: 94.0 mm, on 11 July 1991
2.2 °C separate the warmest year of the series from the coldest. Between the hottest and the coldest day on record, the range reaches 51.5 °C.
Temperature trend over 1974–2025
The regression line of annual mean temperature changes by +0.04 °C per decade between 1974 and 2025, about +0.2 °C over the whole period. That is slower than the median of the 227 stations (+0.19 °C per decade), by 0.15 °C per decade: the station ranks 219 out of 227.
Data source and licence
Data source: Bureau of Meteorology (ACORN-SAT) and NOAA NCEI (GHCN-Daily) (dataset “ACORN-SAT v2 daily (homogenised) + GHCN-Daily”), licence CC BY 4.0; Public domain (NOAA NCEI). Last updated: 29 October 2026.
The data for Cooma Visitors Centre are shown as the source publishes them; this site does not correct them. A year is kept only if at least eleven months of measurements are available, and a normal is computed only with at least twenty years of data out of its thirty. Temperatures are rounded to 0.1 °C and rainfall to the millimetre. The station is one of 227 stations in Australia: the overview page lets you compare them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the annual mean temperature at Cooma Visitors Centre?
Over the whole series (32 years), the annual mean temperature at Cooma Visitors Centre is 11.8 °C.
What is the warmest year ever measured at Cooma Visitors Centre?
Since records began in 1974, the warmest year at Cooma Visitors Centre is 1988, at 12.6 °C on average. The coldest is 1984 (10.4 °C).
Is the climate at Cooma Visitors Centre getting warmer?
The rise is not clear at Cooma Visitors Centre: the trend is +0.04 °C per decade between 1974 and 2025, +0.2 °C in total over the period.
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