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Has the climate in Niamey changed?

Niamey has warmed about 1.8°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Niamey'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? Niamey's warming is broadly in line with other cities across Africa — 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
+1.2°F
1970s
85.3°F
Recent
86.5°F
A steady upward drift

Niamey's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

83°85°87°89°1991: 85.3°F1992: 84.1°F1993: 85.7°F1994: 84.9°F1995: 85.4°F1996: 85.8°F1997: 85.9°F1999: 85.2°F2000: 85.2°F2001: 85.1°F2002: 85.5°F2003: 85.7°F2004: 85.8°F2005: 86.1°F2006: 85.9°F2007: 85.9°F2008: 84.8°F2009: 86.5°F2010: 86.8°F2011: 86.4°F2012: 86.0°F2013: 86.5°F2014: 86.3°F2015: 85.9°F2016: 86.6°F2017: 86.0°F2018: 86.5°F2019: 86.8°F2020: 86.6°F2021: 87.7°F2022: 85.8°F2023: 87.2°F2024: 86.0°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 Diori Hamani, a weather station, about 9 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →