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Has the climate in Stróvolos changed?

Stróvolos has warmed about 2.1°F between 1971 and 2000.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Stróvolos's official daily weather records, 1971–2000. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Stróvolos's warming is broadly in line with other cities across Europe — 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.

Freezing nights
1 fewer night
1970s
1 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.1°F
1970s
67.1°F
Recent
68.3°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
78 fewer days
1970s
118 / yr
Recent
40 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
61 / yr
Recent
60 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Stróvolos's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2000.

64°66°68°70°1971: 66.4°F1972: 66.3°F1973: 67.4°F1974: 66.9°F1975: 67.2°F1976: 66.3°F1977: 67.7°F1978: 67.8°F1979: 68.4°F1980: 67.0°F1981: 67.9°F1982: 66.5°F1983: 66.3°F1984: 67.4°F1985: 67.7°F1986: 67.8°F1987: 67.2°F1988: 67.7°F1989: 67.9°F1990: 68.1°F1991: 67.8°F1992: 65.9°F1993: 67.5°F1994: 69.1°F1995: 68.0°F1996: 68.5°F1997: 67.6°F1998: 69.7°F1999: 69.9°F2000: 68.9°Flong-term trend1971198019902000
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 56 fewer days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°January: +0.6°F+0.6JFebruary: -0.1°F-0.1FMarch: -0.1°F-0.1MApril: +0.2°F+0.2AMay: +0.8°F+0.8MJune: +1.3°F+1.3JJuly: +0.9°F+0.9JAugust: +1.3°F+1.3ASeptember: +0.5°F+0.5SOctober: +1.2°F+1.2ONovember: +0.7°F+0.7NDecember: +0.6°F+0.6D

August has warmed the most — about 1.3°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 10 years of daily observations at Nicosia, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →