Jurien Bay is a weather station located 2 m above sea level, 1 km from Jurien Bay. Its records go back to 1969: 30 years of temperature are available up to 2019, along with rainfall and a comparison with two reference normals. Closed series: the records of this station end in 2019. Over the whole series (30 years) the annual mean temperature there is 18.9 °C; the 1961–1990 and 1991–2020 reference periods are not documented well enough for a comparison. The warmest year of the series is 1996 (19.9 °C) and the coldest 1971 (17.9 °C). The last complete year, 1999, ranks 4 out of 30, from warmest to coldest. Over 1969–2019, the annual mean temperature changes by +0.17 °C per decade. The station ranks 146 out of 227 stations, from the fastest rise to the slowest.
Annual mean temperature since 1969
The first ten years of the series (1970–1979) average 18.7 °C; the last ten (1990–1999) average 19.0 °C, a difference of +0.2 °C. The warmest years of the series all date from before 2000; the warmest is 1996 (19.9 °C). The ten-year running mean peaks at 19.0 °C (1997) and bottoms out at 18.7 °C (1993).
Annual rainfall since 1969
On average 547 mm of rain falls per year over the 43 documented years. The wettest year, 1999, received 971 mm; the driest, 1969, only 231 mm, which is 4.2 times less. The 1991–2020 normal (516 mm per year) is 48 mm (8.5 %) below the 1961–1990 one (564 mm). Over 1991–2020, July is on average the wettest month (119 mm) and January the driest (5 mm). Between 1992 and 2019, 7 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 | 23.4 °C | – | – | 10 mm | 5 mm | −5 mm |
| February | 24.3 °C | 24.6 °C | +0.3 °C | 22 mm | 9 mm | −13 mm |
| March | 22.7 °C | 23.1 °C | +0.4 °C | 11 mm | 16 mm | +5 mm |
| April | 19.8 °C | 20.5 °C | +0.7 °C | 33 mm | 26 mm | −7 mm |
| May | 17.2 °C | – | – | 84 mm | 71 mm | −13 mm |
| June | 15.2 °C | – | – | 120 mm | 94 mm | −26 mm |
| July | 14.3 °C | – | – | 110 mm | 119 mm | +9 mm |
| August | 14.5 °C | – | – | 82 mm | 82 mm | 0 mm |
| September | 15.7 °C | – | – | 43 mm | 44 mm | +1 mm |
| October | 17.0 °C | – | – | 27 mm | 24 mm | −3 mm |
| November | 19.4 °C | 19.9 °C | +0.5 °C | 16 mm | 19 mm | +3 mm |
| December | 21.4 °C | – | – | 6 mm | 7 mm | +1 mm |
For rainfall, the largest difference is in July (+9 mm) and the smallest in June (−26 mm).
Records at Jurien Bay
- Warmest year: 19.9 °C, in 1996
- Coldest year: 17.9 °C, in 1971
- Driest year: 231 mm, in 1969
- Wettest year: 971 mm, in 1999
- Warmest month: 28.0 °C, in February 2011
- Coldest month: 12.9 °C, in July 1986
- Wettest month: 300 mm, in June 1978
- Hottest day: 46.0 °C, on 25 December 2021
- Coldest day: −1.0 °C, on 27 June 1990
- Heaviest rain in one day: 125.2 mm, on 10 April 1999
2.0 °C separate the warmest year of the series from the coldest. Between the hottest and the coldest day on record, the range reaches 47.0 °C.
Temperature trend over 1969–2019
The regression line of annual mean temperature changes by +0.17 °C per decade between 1969 and 2019, about +0.8 °C over the whole period. That is slower than the median of the 227 stations (+0.19 °C per decade), by 0.02 °C per decade: the station ranks 146 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 Jurien Bay 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 Jurien Bay?
Over the whole series (30 years), the annual mean temperature at Jurien Bay is 18.9 °C.
What is the warmest year ever measured at Jurien Bay?
Since records began in 1969, the warmest year at Jurien Bay is 1996, at 19.9 °C on average. The coldest is 1971 (17.9 °C).
Is the climate at Jurien Bay getting warmer?
Yes: at Jurien Bay, the annual mean temperature rises by 0.17 °C per decade between 1969 and 2019, +0.8 °C in total.
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