Al Qunayţirah has warmed about 4.9°F between 1973 and 2024.
About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Al Qunayţirah's official daily weather records, 1973–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.
Is that a lot? Al Qunayţirah's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Syria — 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.
Freezing nights
28 fewer nights
1970s
38 / yr
→
Recent
10 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+3.3°F
1970s
61.6°F
→
Recent
64.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
12 more days
1970s
88 / yr
→
Recent
100 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
3 / yr
→
Recent
3 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same
Al Qunayţirah's temperature, year by year
Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2024.
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.
In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 15 fewer freezing nights a year and about 8 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.
When in the year the change shows up
How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s.
Useful if you garden or care about a particular season —
otherwise the headline above already has the answer.
October has warmed the most — about 6.9°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.
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.