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Has the climate in Sumqayıt changed?

Sumqayıt has cooled about 1°F between 1973 and 1991.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Sumqayıt's official daily weather records, 1973–1991. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

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

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
1 fewer night
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
1 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
−0.3°F
1970s
57.8°F
Recent
57.6°F
A small downward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
2 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
3 fewer days
1970s
60 / yr
Recent
57 / yr
Drier on average

Sumqayıt's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 1991.

44°46°48°50°52°54°56°58°60°62°64°66°1973: 60.0°F1974: 51.9°F1975: 59.6°F1976: 58.4°F1977: 60.2°F1978: 56.9°F1979: 59.2°F1980: 61.7°F1981: 59.7°F1982: 60.2°F1983: 45.0°F1984: 46.5°F1985: 59.7°F1986: 54.3°F1987: 58.2°F1988: 48.4°F1989: 65.3°F1990: 61.8°F1991: 57.4°Flong-term trend1973198019901991
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 4 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

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 →