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Has the climate in Umm Al Quwain City changed?

Umm Al Quwain City has warmed about 5.5°F between 1977 and 2023.

About 1.2°F per decade, measured from Umm Al Quwain City's official daily weather records, 1977–2023. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Umm Al Quwain City's climate has warmed faster than most other cities across Asia.

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
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+3.9°F
1970s
79.3°F
Recent
83.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
5 fewer days
1970s
180 / yr
Recent
175 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
6 more days
1970s
1 / yr
Recent
7 / yr
Wetter on average

Umm Al Quwain City's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1977 to 2023.

76°78°80°82°84°86°1977: 83.4°F1978: 79.5°F1979: 79.7°F1980: 80.0°F1981: 79.0°F1982: 78.4°F1983: 78.7°F1984: 78.7°F1985: 79.2°F1986: 78.8°F1987: 79.0°F1988: 79.4°F1989: 77.9°F1990: 79.4°F1991: 78.4°F1992: 77.5°F1993: 79.6°F1994: 81.2°F1995: 79.2°F1996: 79.9°F1997: 79.1°F1998: 82.1°F1999: 81.9°F2000: 81.1°F2001: 81.1°F2002: 81.7°F2003: 82.0°F2004: 81.9°F2005: 81.6°F2006: 82.0°F2007: 82.4°F2008: 81.2°F2009: 82.0°F2010: 82.7°F2011: 82.2°F2012: 82.8°F2013: 82.7°F2014: 83.1°F2015: 83.8°F2016: 83.0°F2017: 83.5°F2018: 83.6°F2019: 82.9°F2020: 83.8°F2021: 84.1°F2022: 83.8°F2023: 84.0°Flong-term trend1977198019902000201020202023
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 10 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.

-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: +0.1°F+0.1JFebruary: +1.8°F+1.8FMarch: +1.8°F+1.8MApril: +1.7°F+1.7AMay: +1.6°F+1.6MJune: -1.1°F-1.1JJuly: +2.8°F+2.8JAugust: +1.7°F+1.7ASeptember: +1.2°F+1.2SOctober: +2.5°F+2.5ONovember: +1.8°F+1.8NDecember: +0.4°F+0.4D

July has warmed the most — about 2.8°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 22 years of daily observations at Sharjah Inter. Airp, a weather station, about 26 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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