Minlaton, South Australia
# Minlaton, South Australia

Minlaton is a town in central Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. It is known as the "Barley capital of the world", due to the rich Barley production in the region.

Minlaton was the hometown of Harry Butler, a World War I flying ace. His Bristol M1C monoplane has been restored and is preserved in pride of place in a building the centre of the town. When he flew an air mail run from Adelaide across Gulf St Vincent to Minlaton in 1919, it was the first over-water flight in the Southern Hemisphere.

Minlaton is in the District Council of Yorke Peninsula, the federal Division of Grey and the state electoral district of Narungga.

## Climate

Minlaton, like most of the Yorke Peninsula, has a dry mediterranean climate bordering on semi-arid. Annual rainfall is around 360 millimetres or 14 inches, most of which falls in the winter months.

Climate data for Minlaton Aero :

| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Record high °C (°F) | 45.6 (114.1) | 44.1 (111.4) | 41.0 (105.8) | 37.4 (99.3) | 30.9 (87.6) | 25.9 (78.6) | 23.0 (73.4) | 29.3 (84.7) | 33.0 (91.4) | 38.7 (101.7) | 44.3 (111.7) | 45.9 (114.6) | 45.6 (114.1) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 29.6 (85.3) | 28.6 (83.5) | 26.7 (80.1) | 23.4 (74.1) | 19.5 (67.1) | 16.3 (61.3) | 15.3 (59.5) | 16.4 (61.5) | 19.1 (66.4) | 22.6 (72.7) | 26.0 (78.8) | 27.6 (81.7) | 22.6 (72.7) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 15.4 (59.7) | 15.3 (59.5) | 14.1 (57.4) | 11.9 (53.4) | 10.0 (50.0) | 7.8 (46.0) | 7.0 (44.6) | 6.8 (44.2) | 7.9 (46.2) | 9.3 (48.7) | 12.0 (53.6) | 13.5 (56.3) | 10.9 (51.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 6.4 (43.5) | 8.0 (46.4) | 6.0 (42.8) | 5.0 (41.0) | 3.0 (37.4) | 0.0 (32.0) | −0.3 (31.5) | 0.5 (32.9) | 0.2 (32.4) | 0.8 (33.4) | 2.1 (35.8) | 3.7 (38.7) | −0.3 (31.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 14.5 (0.57) | 18.1 (0.71) | 16.1 (0.63) | 24.5 (0.96) | 39.5 (1.56) | 52.5 (2.07) | 50.0 (1.97) | 46.1 (1.81) | 35.4 (1.39) | 22.8 (0.90) | 21.8 (0.86) | 19.6 (0.77) | 360.3 (14.19) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm) | 4.6 | 3.4 | 5.2 | 8.6 | 13.1 | 17.6 | 18.5 | 18.6 | 14.6 | 8.3 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 126.3 |
| Average afternoon relative humidity (%) | 36 | 39 | 40 | 47 | 49 | 67 | 70 | 63 | 58 | 47 | 39 | 39 | 50 |
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## Gallery

* Harry Butler's Red Devil is on display in Minlaton
* Harry Butler memorial
* Main street
* St Benedict's Anglican church, built in 1886
