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Has the climate in Guildford changed?

Guildford has warmed about 1.9°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Guildford'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? Guildford's warming is broadly in line with other cities in United Kingdom — 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
+1.5°F
1970s
50.5°F
Recent
51.9°F
A steady upward drift

Guildford's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

47°49°51°53°1991: 48.7°F1992: 50.4°F1993: 49.4°F1994: 51.3°F1995: 51.0°F1996: 48.8°F1997: 51.6°F1998: 51.4°F1999: 51.9°F2000: 51.1°F2001: 49.6°F2002: 52.2°F2003: 51.8°F2004: 51.7°F2005: 51.4°F2006: 52.4°F2007: 51.7°F2008: 50.6°F2009: 50.7°F2010: 48.8°F2011: 51.9°F2012: 49.9°F2013: 49.9°F2014: 52.3°F2015: 51.5°F2016: 50.9°F2017: 51.6°F2018: 52.3°F2019: 51.3°F2020: 52.3°F2021: 51.0°F2022: 52.7°F2023: 52.7°F2024: 52.7°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 Farnborough, a weather station, about 15 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →