Only 37 millimetres of rain was recorded at the city's official weather station at the Bathurst Agricultural Station during June.

That's 12mm more than June in 2019, but it's 21.6mm less than the second driest month of 2020, which was January.

While June may be the driest month of the year so far, historical weather recordings indicate that June isn't by far the most common month for rain.

The total of 37mm is the sixth wettest June since 2010, besting another five Junes from that same time period.

To date, Bathurst has received 456mm of rain, just 4.8mm short of last years total, 52mm short of 2018's total and 2.7mm short of 2017's total.

If current rain patterns continue, Bathurst is likely to eclipse the total rain figures of the past three years, to make it the wettest year since 2016, which brought a healthy sum of 794.9mm of rain.

It might be a stretch, however, to top 2010's total of 1087.9mm, which was the wettest year in Bathurst since 1950 and second wettest on record.

Since records began, the wettest June for the city was back in 1916 when 193.1mm of rain was recorded, while the driest was back in 1972, when Bathurst received only 0.8mm.

According to the 28-day rainfall forecast on Weatherzone.com.au, southern and eastern Australia could receive widespread rain from July 10-14 and July 26-30, so it's extremely unlikely Bathurst will experience a very dry July.