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Adelaide weather

South Australia · 1,469,163 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 04:27

Air: Good

16°

Partly cloudy

Feels like 16°C

Wind

22 km/h

Gusts

46 km/h

Humidity

58 %

Pressure

1017 hPa

Clouds

56 %

Storm

Rise 06:15 Set 19:42 Day 13 h 27 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Partly cloudy

19°16°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ NE 22 km/h

Gusts 46 km/h

Humidity 49 %

Morning

Partly cloudy

21°20°

Feels like 22°

Wind ↑ NE 26 km/h

Gusts 50 km/h

Humidity 44 %

Afternoon

Rain showers

20°19°

Feels like 20°

Wind ↑ NNE 23 km/h

Gusts 38 km/h

Humidity 56 %

💧 0.3 mm

Evening

Partly cloudy

22°17°

Feels like 24°

Wind ↑ NNE 24 km/h

Gusts 44 km/h

Humidity 49 %

💧 0.1 mm

10:00

21°

NNE 23

13:00

20°

0.1mm

N 13

16:00

19°

0.2mm

NNE 23

19:00

22°

NNE 24

22:00

17°

0.1mm

NNW 23

01:00

18°

NW 22

04:00

17°

0.2mm

WNW 30

07:00

17°

0.7mm

W 24

Adelaide forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Adelaide climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 490 mm of rain — less than 87% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Swimmers find the warmest sea in February (22 °C) and the coolest in August (13 °C).

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 7 °C.

From 9 h 48 min of daylight in late June to 14 h 30 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 19 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (20 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	27 °C	16 °C	22 mm	21 °C
Feb	27 °C	16 °C	20 mm	22 °C
Mar	24 °C	14 °C	20 mm	21 °C
Apr	21 °C	12 °C	36 mm	19 °C
May	17 °C	10 °C	49 mm	17 °C
Jun	14 °C	8 °C	57 mm	15 °C
Jul	13 °C	7 °C	63 mm	13 °C
Aug	14 °C	8 °C	61 mm	13 °C
Sep	16 °C	9 °C	59 mm	14 °C
Oct	20 °C	10 °C	38 mm	16 °C
Nov	23 °C	12 °C	34 mm	18 °C
Dec	25 °C	14 °C	29 mm	20 °C
Whole year	20 °C	11 °C	490 mm	17 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 34.93° S, 138.60° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Adelaide: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.57µg/m³

PM1011µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Adelaide

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Adelaide, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Adelaide yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Adelaide

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 16:16 Set 01:09

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Wed 11/11 3%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Australia/Adelaide); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Adelaide

Tide station used: Adelaide

🌊 Sea surface

18.0 °C

satellite, 30/10

Sea state

Rippled

waves 0.4 m

Period

3 s

Swell

0.1 m

ThuThu 29/10

Low tide 13:15 0.3 m

High tide 18:59 1.7 m

TodayFri 30/10

Low tide 00:11 0.5 m

High tide 06:51 2.6 m

Low tide 13:40 0.4 m

High tide 19:15 1.6 m

TomorrowSat 31/10

Low tide 00:23 0.6 m

High tide 07:16 2.5 m

Low tide 14:07 0.6 m

High tide 19:27 1.5 m

SunSun 01/11

Low tide 00:36 0.6 m

High tide 07:43 2.3 m

Low tide 14:32 0.8 m

High tide 19:29 1.4 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest. · more tide detail on TidesAtlas

Look up a past day in Adelaide

Curious about the weather in Adelaide on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Adelaide weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Adelaide, South Australia: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 22 km/h.

Expected range today: 17 °C to 22 °C and around 1 mm of rain. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms, plus the tide times for Adelaide.

Adelaide weather data for developers

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations