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Has the climate in Sorong changed?

Sorong has cooled about 0.5°F between 1997 and 2024.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Sorong's official daily weather records, 1997–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Sorong's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Indonesia.

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
about the same
1970s
81.2°F
Recent
81.1°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved

Sorong's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1997 to 2024.

78°80°82°84°1997: 82.5°F1998: 82.5°F2007: 81.3°F2008: 79.5°F2009: 80.3°F2010: 80.9°F2011: 80.0°F2012: 80.4°F2013: 80.6°F2014: 81.0°F2015: 80.8°F2016: 81.4°F2017: 80.8°F2018: 80.9°F2019: 81.0°F2020: 81.3°F2021: 80.7°F2022: 80.7°F2023: 81.2°F2024: 81.6°Flong-term trend1997201020202024
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 — 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 →