Narrandera Airport is a weather station located 145 m above sea level, 6 km from Narrandera. Its records go back to 1967: 16 years of temperature are available up to 2025, along with rainfall and a comparison with two reference normals. Over the whole series (16 years) the annual mean temperature there is 17.1 °C; the 1961–1990 and 1991–2020 reference periods are not documented well enough for a comparison. The warmest year of the series is 2018 (18.0 °C) and the coldest 1978 (16.2 °C). The last complete year, 2025, ranks 9 out of 16, from warmest to coldest. Over 1967–2025, the annual mean temperature changes by +0.18 °C per decade. The station ranks 123 out of 227 stations, from the fastest rise to the slowest.
Annual mean temperature since 1967
All of the 10 warmest years in the series fall after 1999; the warmest is 2018 (18.0 °C). The ten-year running mean peaks at 17.4 °C (2020) and bottoms out at 17.2 °C (2023).
Annual rainfall since 1967
On average 447 mm of rain falls per year over the 49 documented years. The wettest year, 2022, received 851 mm; the driest, 1967, only 172 mm, which is 4.9 times less. The 1991–2020 normal (412 mm per year) is 33 mm (7.4 %) below the 1961–1990 one (445 mm). Over 1991–2020, June is on average the wettest month (44 mm) and April the driest (23 mm). Between 1996 and 2024, 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 | – | – | – | 34 mm | 36 mm | +2 mm |
| February | – | – | – | 32 mm | 31 mm | −1 mm |
| March | – | – | – | 33 mm | 26 mm | −7 mm |
| April | – | – | – | 46 mm | 23 mm | −23 mm |
| May | – | – | – | 47 mm | 34 mm | −13 mm |
| June | – | – | – | 33 mm | 44 mm | +11 mm |
| July | – | – | – | 37 mm | 36 mm | −1 mm |
| August | – | – | – | 42 mm | 38 mm | −4 mm |
| September | – | – | – | 35 mm | 34 mm | −1 mm |
| October | – | – | – | 44 mm | 36 mm | −8 mm |
| November | – | – | – | 30 mm | 36 mm | +6 mm |
| December | – | – | – | 32 mm | 38 mm | +6 mm |
For rainfall, the largest difference is in June (+11 mm) and the smallest in April (−23 mm).
Records at Narrandera Airport
- Warmest year: 18.0 °C, in 2018
- Coldest year: 16.2 °C, in 1978
- Driest year: 172 mm, in 1967
- Wettest year: 851 mm, in 2022
- Warmest month: 28.5 °C, in January 1981
- Coldest month: 7.2 °C, in July 1977
- Wettest month: 236 mm, in January 2022
- Hottest day: 47.4 °C, on 4 January 2020
- Coldest day: −5.0 °C, on 1 July 1971
- Heaviest rain in one day: 80.6 mm, on 11 January 1974
1.8 °C separate the warmest year of the series from the coldest. Between the hottest and the coldest day on record, the range reaches 52.4 °C.
Temperature trend over 1967–2025
The regression line of annual mean temperature changes by +0.18 °C per decade between 1967 and 2025, about +1.0 °C over the whole period. That is slower than the median of the 227 stations (+0.19 °C per decade), by 0.01 °C per decade: the station ranks 123 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 Narrandera Airport 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 Narrandera Airport?
Over the whole series (16 years), the annual mean temperature at Narrandera Airport is 17.1 °C.
What is the warmest year ever measured at Narrandera Airport?
Since records began in 1967, the warmest year at Narrandera Airport is 2018, at 18.0 °C on average. The coldest is 1978 (16.2 °C).
Is the climate at Narrandera Airport getting warmer?
Yes: at Narrandera Airport, the annual mean temperature rises by 0.18 °C per decade between 1967 and 2025, +1.0 °C in total. 10 of the 10 warmest years in the series fall after 1999.
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