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Has the climate in Altai changed?

Altai has warmed about 2.9°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Altai'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? Altai's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Mongolia — 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
30.7°F
Recent
32.4°F
A steady upward drift

Altai's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

26°28°30°32°34°36°1991: 30.5°F1992: 27.6°F1993: 28.3°F1994: 30.7°F1995: 30.8°F1996: 28.8°F1997: 32.9°F1998: 33.2°F1999: 32.3°F2000: 30.6°F2001: 31.5°F2002: 32.3°F2003: 29.2°F2004: 32.1°F2005: 28.6°F2006: 32.4°F2007: 33.1°F2008: 31.5°F2009: 31.6°F2010: 30.4°F2011: 29.4°F2012: 29.2°F2013: 32.8°F2014: 31.5°F2015: 32.5°F2016: 31.4°F2017: 34.1°F2018: 30.8°F2019: 32.2°F2020: 31.5°F2021: 33.4°F2022: 31.8°F2023: 33.0°F2024: 34.4°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 Altai, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →