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Has the climate in Pleven changed?

Pleven has warmed about 3.5°F between 1994 and 2024.

About 1.2°F per decade, measured from Pleven's official daily weather records, 1994–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Pleven's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Bulgaria — 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.

Average temperature
+2.3°F
1970s
53.5°F
Recent
55.9°F
A steady upward drift

Pleven's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1994 to 2024.

50°52°54°56°58°1994: 55.1°F1995: 52.2°F1997: 51.4°F1998: 53.0°F1999: 54.2°F2000: 54.9°F2001: 54.2°F2002: 54.1°F2003: 52.8°F2004: 53.5°F2005: 52.2°F2006: 53.4°F2007: 55.6°F2008: 54.6°F2009: 54.4°F2010: 53.6°F2011: 52.8°F2012: 54.9°F2013: 54.6°F2014: 53.9°F2015: 55.6°F2016: 55.3°F2017: 54.8°F2018: 54.8°F2019: 56.3°F2020: 55.8°F2021: 54.7°F2022: 55.9°F2023: 57.4°F2024: 58.0°Flong-term trend19942000201020202024
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 — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at Lovetch, a weather station, about 31 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →