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Has the climate in Luzern changed?

Luzern has warmed about 2.2°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Luzern's official daily weather records, 1991–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Luzern's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Switzerland — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

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.

Average temperature
+1.8°F
1970s
50.1°F
Recent
51.9°F
A steady upward drift

Luzern's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

47°49°51°53°1991: 49.2°F1992: 50.3°F2002: 50.8°F2003: 50.9°F2004: 49.6°F2005: 49.2°F2006: 50.2°F2007: 50.7°F2008: 49.8°F2009: 50.4°F2010: 48.6°F2011: 51.3°F2012: 50.1°F2013: 49.2°F2014: 51.6°F2015: 51.4°F2016: 50.5°F2017: 50.8°F2018: 52.7°F2019: 51.7°F2020: 52.0°F2021: 50.2°F2022: 53.0°F2023: 52.5°F2024: 52.6°Flong-term trend1991201020202024
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.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from a national meteorological service, measured at Luzern, about 2 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →