Swimming Pool Temperatures in Melbourne Australia

If you are thinking about getting a swimming a pool, or have just bought a house with a swimming pool, one of the questions on your mind might be something like this one...

"How often will we be able to use our pool? How many months of the year can you use an outdoor swimming pool in Melbourne"

This is a great question. If you have a pool, and it doesn't have some kind of heating attached to it, then the number of months and consequently the enjoyment you get out of it will be significantly decreased, compared to a pool with a heater.

Our swimming pool thermometer

Here are some temperatures recorded in our outdoor swimming pool in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

In September, the water temperature was 8 degrees celsius. Thats eight degrees above zero but still wetsuit swimming material, hardly swimsuit.

With a little solar heating, by mid October we were up to 12 degrees.....brrrrrr

In Early November we had our first round of warm days, with several days in the mid twenties. This gave the solar the first real chance to heat our pool It got all the way up to about 19 degrees. Still brisk but actually rather nice, from a swimming perspective, as a pool that gets to warm can actually be uncomfortable if you are doing any sort of distance swim training.

So from Mid November onwards the pool was good to swim in....now lets see how long that lasts for.

We think with a bit of luck, we should still be using the pool well into next year, hopefully around March. Thats the beauty of solar heating. Its very cheap, and effective. So if we had a heater such as a gas or electric model, we might be inclined to not use it due to the costs. But with a solar heater the only real cost is the cost of running the pump....you beauty.

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