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Has the climate in Tirana changed?

Tirana has cooled about 0.9°F between 2008 and 2024.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Tirana's official daily weather records, 2008–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Tirana's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Albania.

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
22 fewer nights
1970s
79 / yr
Recent
57 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
−0.3°F
1970s
49.6°F
Recent
49.3°F
A small downward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
1 / yr
Recent
1 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
51 more days
1970s
48 / yr
Recent
99 / yr
Wetter on average

Tirana's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2008 to 2024.

46°48°50°52°2008: 49.9°F2010: 48.3°F2011: 49.4°F2012: 50.6°F2013: 49.2°F2014: 49.9°F2015: 50.5°F2016: 50.1°F2017: 49.7°F2018: 51.5°F2019: 50.1°F2023: 47.4°F2024: 48.1°Flong-term trend200820102024
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 26 more freezing nights a year 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°+3.0°+3.5°+4.0°+4.5°+5.0°+5.5°+6.0°+6.5°+7.0°+7.5°January: +4.2°F+4.2JFebruary: +4.0°F+4.0FMarch: +4.6°F+4.6MApril: +5.2°F+5.2AMay: +3.0°F+3.0MJune: +3.0°F+3.0JJuly: +4.4°F+4.4JAugust: +4.4°F+4.4ASeptember: +2.7°F+2.7SOctober: +4.4°F+4.4ONovember: +7.1°F+7.1NDecember: +4.0°F+4.0D

November has warmed the most — about 7.1°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 17 years of daily observations at Lazaropole, a weather station, about 77 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →