Today
Has it rained enough in Perth?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
Perth has had 56.6mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 32.4mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (108.4mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
5 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Perth through a normal year
Across a normal year Perth gets about 570.6mm of rain, most of it in July (110.3mm) and least in December (10.3mm).
A normal October in Perth has rain on 9 days. Only 4 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Perth the driest place this site covers in Australia in October — 32.4mm against Brisbane's 81.3mm at the other end.
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorst hit, and first to suffer. Very little soil, fully exposed, and nothing to fall back on — in this weather they can empty in a day.
- Salad and leafy vegShallow-rooted and quick to bolt once they run dry. First priority of anything in the ground.
- Beds and bordersA long soak that reaches the roots is worth more than a daily sprinkle, which only wets the surface and is gone by lunchtime.
- Established shrubs and treesFine as they are. They draw from far deeper than a dry spell reaches.