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Has the climate in Sadr City changed?

Sadr City has warmed about 0.8°F between 2010 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Sadr City's official daily weather records, 2010–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Sadr City's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Iraq — 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
+0.9°F
1970s
75.8°F
Recent
76.7°F
A steady upward drift

Sadr City's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2010 to 2024.

73°75°77°79°81°2010: 79.4°F2011: 74.1°F2012: 75.5°F2013: 74.0°F2014: 76.0°F2015: 76.2°F2016: 75.7°F2017: 76.5°F2018: 76.6°F2019: 75.8°F2020: 76.4°F2021: 77.2°F2022: 76.4°F2023: 76.2°F2024: 77.1°Flong-term trend201020202024
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 →