Meningie is a weather station located 3 m above sea level, 0 km from Meningie. Its records go back to 1884: 29 years of temperature are available up to 2025, along with rainfall and a comparison with two reference normals. Over 1991–2020 the annual mean temperature there is 15.8 °C; the 1961–1990 period is not documented well enough to compare. The warmest year of the series is 2007 (16.5 °C) and the coldest 1970 (14.9 °C). The last complete year, 2012, ranks 4 out of 29, from warmest to coldest. Over 1961–2025, the annual mean temperature changes by +0.13 °C per decade. The station ranks 184 out of 227 stations, from the fastest rise to the slowest.
Annual mean temperature since 1884
The first ten years of the series (1967–1976) average 15.4 °C; the last ten (2003–2012) average 15.9 °C, a difference of +0.5 °C. Of the ten warmest years in the series, 7 fall after 1999. The warmest is 2007 (16.5 °C). The ten-year running mean peaks at 15.9 °C (2012) and bottoms out at 15.4 °C (1974).
Annual rainfall since 1884
On average 460 mm of rain falls per year over the 93 documented years. The wettest year, 2010, received 695 mm; the driest, 1944, only 229 mm, which is 3.0 times less. Over 1991–2020, July is on average the wettest month (67 mm) and March the driest (18 mm). Between 2001 and 2025, 12 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 | 19.7 °C | 20.4 °C | +0.7 °C | 21 mm | 19 mm | −2 mm |
| February | 19.9 °C | 20.4 °C | +0.5 °C | 16 mm | 19 mm | +3 mm |
| March | 18.4 °C | 18.6 °C | +0.2 °C | 24 mm | 18 mm | −6 mm |
| April | – | 16.2 °C | – | 38 mm | 33 mm | −5 mm |
| May | – | 13.8 °C | – | – | 53 mm | – |
| June | – | 11.5 °C | – | – | 63 mm | – |
| July | – | 10.9 °C | – | 60 mm | 67 mm | +7 mm |
| August | – | 11.8 °C | – | – | 57 mm | – |
| September | – | 13.7 °C | – | 38 mm | 50 mm | +12 mm |
| October | – | 15.3 °C | – | 35 mm | 32 mm | −3 mm |
| November | 16.8 °C | 17.6 °C | +0.8 °C | 28 mm | 25 mm | −3 mm |
| December | 18.7 °C | 19.0 °C | +0.3 °C | 27 mm | 26 mm | −1 mm |
Records at Meningie
- Warmest year: 16.5 °C, in 2007
- Coldest year: 14.9 °C, in 1970
- Driest year: 229 mm, in 1944
- Wettest year: 695 mm, in 2010
- Warmest month: 23.4 °C, in February 2000
- Coldest month: 9.2 °C, in July 1968
- Wettest month: 198 mm, in June 1916
- Hottest day: 46.1 °C, on 24 January 2019
- Coldest day: −3.3 °C, on 22 June 1972
- Heaviest rain in one day: 112.0 mm, on 14 April 1985
1.6 °C separate the warmest year of the series from the coldest. Between the hottest and the coldest day on record, the range reaches 49.4 °C.
Temperature trend over 1961–2025
The regression line of annual mean temperature changes by +0.13 °C per decade between 1961 and 2025, about +0.8 °C over the whole period. That is slower than the median of the 227 stations (+0.19 °C per decade), by 0.06 °C per decade: the station ranks 184 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 Meningie 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 Meningie?
Over 1991–2020, the annual mean temperature at Meningie is 15.8 °C.
What is the warmest year ever measured at Meningie?
Since records began in 1884, the warmest year at Meningie is 2007, at 16.5 °C on average. The coldest is 1970 (14.9 °C).
Is the climate at Meningie getting warmer?
Yes: at Meningie, the annual mean temperature rises by 0.13 °C per decade between 1961 and 2025, +0.8 °C in total. 7 of the 10 warmest years in the series fall after 1999.
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