The days were warmer and the nights were colder in 2017 during a year of extremes for Canberra.

As much of eastern Australia endured record heat, the territory had its third-warmest year on record - and its lowest annual rainfall since 2009 - in what was also the third-warmest year for Australia overall.

After a scorching summer in 2017, Canberra also endured its coldest winter in 35 years. Credit:Karleen Minney

Yet the Bureau of Meteorology's annual report revealed last winter was actually Canberra's coldest since 1982, and its fourth-coolest on record.

The capital shivered through 109 nights below 2 degrees in 2017, 16 more than average. That included a memorably frosty morning on July 1, when the mercury plunged to minus 8.7 degrees in the coldest temperature recorded in almost fifty years.