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Has the climate in Ras Al Khaimah changed?

Ras Al Khaimah has warmed about 1.8°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Ras Al Khaimah'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? Ras Al Khaimah's warming is broadly in line with other cities across Asia — 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
+1.1°F
1970s
81.6°F
Recent
82.7°F
A steady upward drift

Ras Al Khaimah's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

78°80°82°84°86°1991: 80.3°F1992: 79.4°F1993: 80.9°F1994: 81.8°F1995: 81.3°F1996: 81.6°F1997: 81.0°F1998: 83.2°F1999: 83.3°F2000: 82.5°F2001: 82.8°F2002: 83.3°F2003: 83.5°F2004: 83.1°F2005: 83.8°F2006: 85.2°F2007: 83.2°F2008: 82.0°F2009: 83.0°F2010: 83.8°F2011: 83.5°F2012: 83.2°F2013: 82.2°F2014: 81.8°F2015: 82.9°F2016: 82.1°F2017: 82.9°F2018: 83.0°F2019: 82.4°F2020: 82.0°F2021: 83.3°F2022: 83.1°F2023: 83.2°F2024: 83.2°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 Ras AL Khaimah Intl, a weather station, about 20 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →