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Has the climate in Banja Luka changed?

Banja Luka has warmed about 4.4°F since 2002.

About 1.9°F per decade, measured from Banja Luka's official daily weather records, 2002–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Banja Luka's climate has warmed faster than most other cities across Europe.

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
62 / yr
Recent
40 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+3.8°F
1970s
53.9°F
Recent
57.6°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 fewer day
1970s
28 / yr
Recent
27 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
33 fewer days
1970s
105 / yr
Recent
72 / yr
Drier on average

Banja Luka's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2002 to 2025.

50°52°54°56°58°60°2002: 55.3°F2003: 53.8°F2004: 52.8°F2005: 51.6°F2006: 53.3°F2007: 55.1°F2008: 55.1°F2009: 56.6°F2010: 55.3°F2011: 56.9°F2012: 57.5°F2013: 56.9°F2015: 57.2°F2016: 55.5°F2017: 56.0°F2018: 55.6°F2019: 56.7°F2020: 57.0°F2021: 59.1°F2022: 58.0°F2023: 58.1°F2024: 58.1°F2025: 56.4°Flong-term trend2002201020202025
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 — 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 →