Perth to Enjoy Final Warm Spell Before Winter Cold Front Hits

Perth is set to bask in temperatures as high as 27C in the coming days in what may be the city’s final warm spell before winter hits.

Just in time for Mother’s Day, the Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a four-day stretch of sunshine without a drop of rain.

The mercury is tipped to reach 24C on Saturday and creep up a degree every day until Tuesday, when the temperature is forecast to peak at a blissful 27C.

—

Wide Pickt banner — collaborative shopping lists app for Telegram, phone mockup with grocery list

The warm change is much-needed for Perth, which is sitting slightly below average for this time of year and three degrees cooler than the average for May 2025.

The bureau’s Jessica Lingard said that the warmer weather was the result of a high pressure system, which had been delivering easterly winds all week and would send warmer northerly winds Perth’s way early next week.

While Ms Lingard insisted the weather was “perfectly normal” for this time of year, she said it may be best to make the most of it with winter only weeks away.

“We’re just going to enjoy the beautiful weather we’ve been given because it’s not going to last long,” she said.

A pre-winter cold front is due to hit on Wednesday and Thursday, when the first showers in over a week are forecast.

And the lawn may be well and truly ready for it by then — Perth is sitting well below the 85.5mm average rainfall tally for May, with a mere 3.6mm in the gauge so far, largely due to rainfall on April 30.

And while the hot spell is a nice change, it’s well below the balmy 34.3C recorded in Perth on May 1, 2002, which holds the record for Perth’s hottest ever May day.

Overnight temperatures are forecast to remain in the double figures, staying 10C or higher for the next six days.