Narooma has an oceanic climate (Cfb) with mild temperatures throughout the year. It is fairly sunny, getting 104.3 clear days annually. The town's drier winters are owed to its position on the leeward side of the Great Dividing Range, which block moisture from the westerly cold fronts that arrive from the Southern Ocean and therefore they would become Foehn winds as they reach the coastal plain.Sharples, J.J. Mills, G.A., McRae, R.H.D., Weber, R.O. (2010) Elevated fire danger conditions associated with foehn-like winds in southeastern Australia. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. Compared to other cities on the immediate coast of New South Wales, like Sydney and Wollongong, the city features a relatively low annual rainfall of – this is primarily owed to its position on the curved coastline that dents more westwards as one moves south, which occasionally shelter the city from intense Tasman lows and other rainfall bearing systems from the east.
