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Has the climate in Luanda changed?

Luanda has warmed about 1.6°F between 2002 and 2020.

About 1.5°F per decade, measured from Luanda's official daily weather records, 2002–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Luanda's climate has warmed faster than most other cities across Africa.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+2.3°F
1970s
76.2°F
Recent
78.5°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
36 more days
1970s
6 / yr
Recent
42 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
10 more days
1970s
7 / yr
Recent
17 / yr
Wetter on average

Luanda's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2002 to 2020.

74°76°78°80°2002: 76.9°F2005: 75.5°F2006: 76.3°F2007: 76.1°F2011: 78.0°F2015: 77.3°F2016: 78.4°F2017: 77.6°F2018: 78.4°F2019: 78.6°F2020: 78.5°Flong-term trend20022020
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 12 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

How we build these numbers →