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Has the climate in Gjakovë changed?

Gjakovë has warmed about 2°F since 2016.

About 2.0°F per decade, measured from Gjakovë's official daily weather records, 2016–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Gjakovë's climate has warmed faster than most other cities worldwide.

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
6 fewer nights
1970s
49 / yr
Recent
43 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.6°F
1970s
56.6°F
Recent
58.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
23 more days
1970s
41 / yr
Recent
64 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
40 fewer days
1970s
95 / yr
Recent
55 / yr
Drier on average

Gjakovë's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2016 to 2025.

55°57°59°2016: 56.1°F2017: 56.2°F2018: 57.4°F2019: 57.5°F2020: 58.7°F2021: 57.4°F2022: 57.0°F2023: 58.0°F2024: 58.8°F2025: 57.7°Flong-term trend201620202025
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 — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

How we build these numbers →