Climate-Zone.com

HomeCitiesDenmarkEsbjergTools › Climate trends

Has the climate in Esbjerg changed?

Esbjerg has warmed about 1.3°F between 1971 and 2011.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Esbjerg's official daily weather records, 1971–2011. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Esbjerg's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Denmark — 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
46 fewer nights
1970s
74 / yr
Recent
28 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.3°F
1970s
47.2°F
Recent
48.5°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
7 more days
1970s
182 / yr
Recent
189 / yr
Wetter on average

Esbjerg's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2011.

38°40°42°44°46°48°50°52°1971: 48.1°F1972: 47.1°F1973: 47.6°F1974: 48.3°F1975: 48.9°F1976: 46.6°F1977: 47.0°F1978: 46.6°F1979: 44.7°F1980: 46.3°F1981: 46.1°F1982: 47.6°F1983: 48.3°F1984: 47.3°F1985: 45.0°F1986: 45.8°F1987: 45.2°F1988: 48.6°F1989: 49.7°F1990: 49.8°F1991: 47.9°F1992: 49.4°F1993: 47.7°F1994: 50.0°F1995: 48.2°F1996: 45.4°F1997: 48.6°F1998: 48.2°F1999: 49.5°F2000: 51.4°F2001: 48.2°F2002: 49.9°F2003: 48.4°F2004: 48.9°F2005: 49.3°F2006: 50.6°F2007: 49.8°F2008: 50.2°F2009: 49.3°F2010: 45.8°F2011: 39.0°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102011
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 21 fewer freezing nights a year 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°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: +1.0°F+1.0JFebruary: +1.1°F+1.1FMarch: +0.9°F+0.9MApril: +2.7°F+2.7AMay: +1.0°F+1.0MJune: +1.2°F+1.2JJuly: +2.0°F+2.0JAugust: +1.9°F+1.9ASeptember: +1.5°F+1.5SOctober: +0.2°F+0.2ONovember: +0.4°F+0.4NDecember: -0.3°F-0.3D

April has warmed the most — about 2.7°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 20 years of daily observations at Nordby (fano), a weather station, about 4 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →