Dunedoo Post Office is a weather station located 388 m above sea level, 1 km from Dunedoo. Its records go back to 1912: 12 years of temperature are available up to 2022, along with rainfall and a comparison with two reference normals. Closed series: the records of this station end in 2022. Over the whole series (12 years) the annual mean temperature there is 17.3 °C; the 1961–1990 and 1991–2020 reference periods are not documented well enough for a comparison. The warmest year of the series is 2014 (18.8 °C) and the coldest 1978 (16.4 °C). The last complete year, 2019, ranks 2 out of 12, from warmest to coldest. Over 1961–2022, the annual mean temperature changes by +0.29 °C per decade. The station ranks 25 out of 227 stations, from the fastest rise to the slowest.
Annual mean temperature since 1912
Of the ten warmest years in the series, 5 fall after 1999. The warmest is 2014 (18.8 °C).
Annual rainfall since 1912
On average 593 mm of rain falls per year over the 101 documented years. The wettest year, 1950, received 1344 mm; the driest, 1957, only 270 mm, which is 5.0 times less. The 1991–2020 normal (621 mm per year) is 35 mm (6.0 %) above the 1961–1990 one (586 mm). Over 1991–2020, December is on average the wettest month (80 mm) and April the driest (33 mm). Between 2003 and 2022, 10 years out of 20 exceeded the series average.
Monthly normals: 1961–1990 against 1991–2020
The table compares, month by month, the mean temperature and the rainfall total of two thirty-year reference periods. The difference column shows what the recent period changes compared with the earlier one.
| Month | Temp. 1961–1990 | Temp. 1991–2020 | Difference | Rain 1961–1990 | Rain 1991–2020 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | – | 25.9 °C | – | 80 mm | 62 mm | −18 mm |
| February | – | – | – | 61 mm | 56 mm | −5 mm |
| March | – | 21.6 °C | – | 59 mm | 58 mm | −1 mm |
| April | – | 17.3 °C | – | 37 mm | 33 mm | −4 mm |
| May | – | – | – | 41 mm | 42 mm | +1 mm |
| June | – | 10.2 °C | – | 34 mm | 43 mm | +9 mm |
| July | – | 9.1 °C | – | 38 mm | 47 mm | +9 mm |
| August | – | 10.5 °C | – | 42 mm | 35 mm | −7 mm |
| September | – | 13.9 °C | – | 39 mm | 48 mm | +9 mm |
| October | – | – | – | 59 mm | 54 mm | −5 mm |
| November | – | 21.2 °C | – | 49 mm | 63 mm | +14 mm |
| December | – | – | – | 47 mm | 80 mm | +33 mm |
For rainfall, the largest difference is in December (+33 mm) and the smallest in January (−18 mm).
Records at Dunedoo Post Office
- Warmest year: 18.8 °C, in 2014
- Coldest year: 16.4 °C, in 1978
- Driest year: 270 mm, in 1957
- Wettest year: 1344 mm, in 1950
- Warmest month: 30.3 °C, in January 2019
- Coldest month: 7.0 °C, in July 1982
- Wettest month: 377 mm, in February 1955
- Hottest day: 45.4 °C, on 11 February 2017
- Coldest day: −8.3 °C, on 16 July 1970
- Heaviest rain in one day: 261.1 mm, on 24 February 1955
2.4 °C separate the warmest year of the series from the coldest. Between the hottest and the coldest day on record, the range reaches 53.7 °C.
Temperature trend over 1961–2022
The regression line of annual mean temperature changes by +0.29 °C per decade between 1961 and 2022, about +1.8 °C over the whole period. That is faster than the median of the 227 stations (+0.19 °C per decade), by 0.10 °C per decade: the station ranks 25 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 Dunedoo Post Office 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 Dunedoo Post Office?
Over the whole series (12 years), the annual mean temperature at Dunedoo Post Office is 17.3 °C.
What is the warmest year ever measured at Dunedoo Post Office?
Since records began in 1912, the warmest year at Dunedoo Post Office is 2014, at 18.8 °C on average. The coldest is 1978 (16.4 °C).
Is the climate at Dunedoo Post Office getting warmer?
Yes: at Dunedoo Post Office, the annual mean temperature rises by 0.29 °C per decade between 1961 and 2022, +1.8 °C in total. 5 of the 10 warmest years in the series fall after 1999.
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