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Has the climate in Sariwŏn-si changed?

Sariwŏn-si has warmed about 2.4°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Sariwŏn-si'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? Sariwŏn-si's warming is broadly in line with other cities in North Korea — 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
51.8°F
Recent
53.7°F
A steady upward drift

Sariwŏn-si's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

49°51°53°55°57°1991: 51.4°F1992: 51.7°F1993: 51.2°F1994: 53.2°F1995: 51.2°F1996: 50.8°F1997: 51.7°F1998: 53.6°F1999: 52.9°F2000: 50.9°F2001: 51.4°F2002: 51.4°F2003: 52.2°F2004: 52.8°F2005: 50.2°F2006: 52.1°F2007: 56.1°F2008: 52.3°F2009: 51.8°F2010: 50.1°F2011: 51.0°F2012: 50.6°F2013: 51.3°F2014: 53.7°F2015: 53.8°F2016: 53.7°F2017: 52.9°F2018: 52.6°F2019: 54.1°F2020: 53.2°F2021: 53.8°F2022: 52.3°F2023: 54.6°F2024: 55.8°Flong-term trend19912000201020202024
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 — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Sariwon, a weather station, about 1 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →