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Has the climate in Zaranj changed?

Zaranj has warmed about 3.8°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Zaranj's official daily weather records, 1971–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Zaranj's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Afghanistan — 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
20 fewer nights
1970s
58 / yr
Recent
38 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.1°F
1970s
65.6°F
Recent
67.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
16 fewer days
1970s
140 / yr
Recent
124 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
17 more days
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
17 / yr
Wetter on average

Zaranj's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

61°63°65°67°69°71°1971: 64.8°F1972: 62.1°F1973: 66.4°F1974: 64.7°F1975: 64.6°F1976: 65.2°F1977: 67.2°F1978: 68.2°F1979: 65.1°F1980: 67.7°F1981: 66.5°F1982: 64.5°F1983: 66.2°F1984: 65.5°F1985: 65.0°F1986: 64.2°F1987: 66.2°F1988: 66.7°F1989: 64.3°F1990: 65.4°F1991: 64.4°F1992: 64.0°F1993: 64.3°F1994: 66.3°F1995: 66.0°F1996: 64.1°F1997: 65.2°F1998: 67.3°F1999: 68.8°F2000: 69.0°F2001: 70.0°F2002: 69.6°F2003: 68.1°F2004: 69.8°F2005: 68.1°F2006: 69.1°F2007: 66.6°F2008: 66.7°F2009: 67.4°F2010: 67.8°F2011: 67.3°F2012: 66.3°F2013: 67.7°F2014: 66.1°F2015: 68.1°F2016: 68.8°F2017: 67.7°F2018: 68.4°F2019: 67.3°F2020: 66.0°F2021: 68.2°F2022: 68.9°F2023: 69.5°F2024: 69.1°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202024
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 11 fewer freezing nights a year and about 6 fewer 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: +1.3°F+1.3JFebruary: +2.3°F+2.3FMarch: +1.9°F+1.9MApril: +1.5°F+1.5AMay: +1.4°F+1.4MJune: +0.8°F+0.8JJuly: +0.9°F+0.9JAugust: +0.7°F+0.7ASeptember: +1.3°F+1.3SOctober: +1.8°F+1.8ONovember: +0.6°F+0.6NDecember: +0.4°F+0.4D

February has warmed the most — about 2.3°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 29 years of daily observations at Zahedan, a weather station, about 189 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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