Oberon (Springbank) is a weather station located 1095 m above sea level, 3 km from Oberon. Its records go back to 1889: 12 years of temperature are available up to 2017, along with rainfall and a comparison with two reference normals. Closed series: the records of this station end in 2017. Over the whole series (12 years) the annual mean temperature there is 11.5 °C; the 1961–1990 and 1991–2020 reference periods are not documented well enough for a comparison. The warmest year of the series is 2016 (12.6 °C) and the coldest 1970 (9.7 °C). The last complete year, 2017, ranks 2 out of 12, from warmest to coldest. Over 1961–2017, the annual mean temperature changes by +0.36 °C per decade. The station ranks 6 out of 227 stations, from the fastest rise to the slowest.
Annual mean temperature since 1889
Of the ten warmest years in the series, 9 fall after 1999. The warmest is 2016 (12.6 °C). The ten-year running mean peaks at 11.8 °C (2017) and bottoms out at 11.7 °C (2016).
Annual rainfall since 1889
On average 791 mm of rain falls per year over the 82 documented years. The wettest year, 1916, received 1413 mm; the driest, 1982, only 237 mm, which is 6.0 times less. Between 1965 and 2017, 11 years out of 20 exceeded the series average.
Records at Oberon (Springbank)
- Warmest year: 12.6 °C, in 2016
- Coldest year: 9.7 °C, in 1970
- Driest year: 237 mm, in 1982
- Wettest year: 1413 mm, in 1916
- Warmest month: 22.5 °C, in January 2019
- Coldest month: 3.4 °C, in July 1968
- Wettest month: 269 mm, in December 1971
- Hottest day: 38.6 °C, on 1 February 2020
- Coldest day: −9.0 °C, on 28 July 1986
- Heaviest rain in one day: 122.4 mm, on 12 March 1890
2.9 °C separate the warmest year of the series from the coldest. Between the hottest and the coldest day on record, the range reaches 47.6 °C.
Temperature trend over 1961–2017
The regression line of annual mean temperature changes by +0.36 °C per decade between 1961 and 2017, about +2.0 °C over the whole period. That is faster than the median of the 227 stations (+0.19 °C per decade), by 0.17 °C per decade: the station ranks 6 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 Oberon (Springbank) 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 Oberon (Springbank)?
Over the whole series (12 years), the annual mean temperature at Oberon (Springbank) is 11.5 °C.
What is the warmest year ever measured at Oberon (Springbank)?
Since records began in 1889, the warmest year at Oberon (Springbank) is 2016, at 12.6 °C on average. The coldest is 1970 (9.7 °C).
Is the climate at Oberon (Springbank) getting warmer?
Yes: at Oberon (Springbank), the annual mean temperature rises by 0.36 °C per decade between 1961 and 2017, +2.0 °C in total. 9 of the 10 warmest years in the series fall after 1999.
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