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Canberra weather

Australian Capital Territory · 367,752 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 04:56

Air: Good Low storm risk · Tomorrow, Tue, Wed

8°

Clear sky

Feels like 8°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

4 km/h

Humidity

100 %

Pressure

1025 hPa

Clouds

3 %

Storm

Rise 06:02 Set 19:31 Day 13 h 28 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Clear sky

8°7°

Feels like 8°

Wind ↑ SE 5 km/h

Humidity 100 %

Morning

Clear sky

19°11°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ NNW 7 km/h

Gusts 17 km/h

Humidity 58 %

Afternoon

Mainly clear

24°23°

Feels like 24°

Wind ↑ NW 15 km/h

Gusts 23 km/h

Humidity 27 %

Evening

Partly cloudy

16°14°

Feels like 16°

Wind ↑ E 6 km/h

Humidity 43 %

11:00

19°

NNW 7

14:00

24°

NW 15

17:00

23°

NW 11

20:00

16°

WNW 6

23:00

14°

E 6

02:00

12°

NE 4

05:00

12°

NNE 4

08:00

15°

NW 5

Canberra forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.9° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Canberra climate: what a normal year looks like

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 33 mm and 73 mm on average.

Day and night differ most in January: 27 °C in the afternoon against 14 °C before dawn, a 13 °C swing.

A normal year brings roughly 670 mm of rain — less than 77% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 1 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 21 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (19 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	27 °C	14 °C	59 mm
Feb	26 °C	14 °C	66 mm
Mar	23 °C	11 °C	47 mm
Apr	19 °C	7 °C	33 mm
May	15 °C	4 °C	34 mm
Jun	12 °C	2 °C	59 mm
Jul	10 °C	2 °C	45 mm
Aug	12 °C	1 °C	57 mm
Sep	15 °C	4 °C	63 mm
Oct	19 °C	7 °C	67 mm
Nov	21 °C	9 °C	73 mm
Dec	24 °C	11 °C	69 mm
Whole year	19 °C	7 °C	670 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 35.28° S, 149.13° 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 Canberra: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.55µg/m³

PM109µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Canberra

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Canberra, 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 Canberra yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Canberra

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 15:03 Set —

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/Sydney); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Canberra

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

Canberra weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 8 °C (feels like 8 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 12 °C to 24 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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.

Other big cities nearby

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