Taralga Post Office is a weather station located 845 m above sea level. Its records go back to 1883: 39 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 12.5 °C; the 1961–1990 period is not documented well enough to compare. The warmest year of the series is 2007 (13.2 °C) and the coldest 1959 (11.1 °C). The last complete year, 2020, ranks 11 out of 39, from warmest to coldest. Over 1961–2025, the annual mean temperature changes by +0.15 °C per decade. The station ranks 164 out of 227 stations, from the fastest rise to the slowest.
Annual mean temperature since 1883
The first ten years of the series (1957–1966) average 11.5 °C; the last ten (2006–2020) average 12.5 °C, a difference of +1.0 °C. Of the ten warmest years in the series, 6 fall after 1999. The warmest is 2007 (13.2 °C). The ten-year running mean peaks at 12.6 °C (2010) and bottoms out at 11.4 °C (1964).
Annual rainfall since 1883
On average 779 mm of rain falls per year over the 121 documented years. The wettest year, 1890, received 1360 mm; the driest, 1982, only 275 mm, which is 4.9 times less. The 1991–2020 normal (764 mm per year) is 53 mm (6.5 %) below the 1961–1990 one (817 mm). Over 1991–2020, February is on average the wettest month (94 mm) and April the driest (38 mm). Between 2004 and 2025, 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 | – | 19.7 °C | – | 74 mm | 59 mm | −15 mm |
| February | – | 18.8 °C | – | 59 mm | 94 mm | +35 mm |
| March | – | 16.1 °C | – | 74 mm | 65 mm | −9 mm |
| April | – | 12.7 °C | – | 63 mm | 38 mm | −25 mm |
| May | – | 9.0 °C | – | 55 mm | 43 mm | −12 mm |
| June | – | 6.7 °C | – | 64 mm | 77 mm | +13 mm |
| July | – | 5.8 °C | – | 60 mm | 58 mm | −2 mm |
| August | – | 6.6 °C | – | 81 mm | 68 mm | −13 mm |
| September | – | 9.5 °C | – | 63 mm | 61 mm | −2 mm |
| October | – | 12.4 °C | – | 86 mm | 60 mm | −26 mm |
| November | – | 15.3 °C | – | 78 mm | 73 mm | −5 mm |
| December | – | 17.5 °C | – | 60 mm | 68 mm | +8 mm |
For rainfall, the largest difference is in February (+35 mm) and the smallest in October (−26 mm).
Records at Taralga Post Office
- Warmest year: 13.2 °C, in 2007
- Coldest year: 11.1 °C, in 1959
- Driest year: 275 mm, in 1982
- Wettest year: 1360 mm, in 1890
- Warmest month: 21.7 °C, in January 2020
- Coldest month: 3.7 °C, in July 1957
- Wettest month: 418 mm, in June 1891
- Hottest day: 40.5 °C, on 4 January 2020
- Coldest day: −10.0 °C, on 10 May 2017
- Heaviest rain in one day: 197.0 mm, on 10 February 2020
2.1 °C separate the warmest year of the series from the coldest. Between the hottest and the coldest day on record, the range reaches 50.5 °C.
Temperature trend over 1961–2025
The regression line of annual mean temperature changes by +0.15 °C per decade between 1961 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 0.04 °C per decade: the station ranks 164 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 Taralga 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 Taralga Post Office?
Over 1991–2020, the annual mean temperature at Taralga Post Office is 12.5 °C.
What is the warmest year ever measured at Taralga Post Office?
Since records began in 1883, the warmest year at Taralga Post Office is 2007, at 13.2 °C on average. The coldest is 1959 (11.1 °C).
Is the climate at Taralga Post Office getting warmer?
Yes: at Taralga Post Office, the annual mean temperature rises by 0.15 °C per decade between 1961 and 2025, +1.0 °C in total. 6 of the 10 warmest years in the series fall after 1999.
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