Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the state of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.2 million in the city and 2.3 million within Greater Perth as of 2023. The world's most isolated major city by certain criteria, Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of Perth's metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which its central business district and port of Fremantle are situated.
- Country
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Elevation
- 23 m
- Population
- 2,384,371
- Time zone
- Australia/Perth
- Coordinates
- -31.95, 115.86
Weather in Perth month by month
The best months to go: Apr · Oct · Nov
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 30° | 30° | 28° | 24° | 21° | 18° | 18° | 18° | 20° | 22° | 25° | 29° |
| low | 19° | 19° | 18° | 15° | 12° | 11° | 11° | 9° | 11° | 12° | 15° | 18° |
| rain | 2 mm | 19 mm | 50 mm | 42 mm | 90 mm | 128 mm | 118 mm | 93 mm | 50 mm | 44 mm | 31 mm | 6 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Perth is from other cities in Australia
- Adelaide2,131 km✈ 3 h 21 min · 🚗 35 h 31 min
- Geelong2,673 km✈ 4 h 1 min · 🚗 44 h 33 min
- Melbourne2,721 km✈ 4 h 4 min · 🚗 45 h 21 min
- Hobart3,010 km✈ 4 h 25 min · 🚗 50 h 10 min
- Canberra3,088 km✈ 4 h 31 min · 🚗 51 h 28 min
- Wollongong3,255 km✈ 4 h 43 min · 🚗 54 h 15 min
- Sydney3,290 km✈ 4 h 46 min · 🚗 54 h 50 min
- Central Coast3,311 km✈ 4 h 47 min · 🚗 55 h 11 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.