Mount Gambier has a temperate climate with warm dry summers and cool wet winters. July is the wettest month with an average of 99.4mm falling on 21 days whilst February normally records the lowest rainfall with an average of 25 mm on an average 8 days. The highest ever temperature recorded in Mount Gambier was 43.6 �C on 16 February 1983 (Ash Wednesday fires) and the lowest ever temperature recorded was ?3.9 �C on 20 June 1950 and 2 July 1960.
The town is located within a climatic transition zone between oceanic and Mediterranean climate
