Cycles & Seasons
Noongar Seasons
Six seasons of southwestern Australia, read from country
The Noongar people of southwestern Australia keep six seasons, not four, each read from what the land is doing — the flowering, the rains, the movement of animals — rather than from a fixed date. Being southern, it also runs opposite to the northern calendars beside it: Makuru is the cold, wet heart of the year.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read Kambarang. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Solar — six seasons read from the land
- Origin
- The Noongar people of southwestern Australia
- Year
- Six seasons — Birak, Bunuru, Djeran, Makuru, Djilba, Kambarang — set by what the land is doing, not by date
- Counts from
- No running count
- Where it’s used
- Noongar country, around Perth and the southwest
- How it’s worked out here
- Two Gregorian months to a season, from December — a guide only, since the seasons are read from country
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