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Has the climate in Molepolole changed?

Molepolole has warmed about 0.5°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from Molepolole's official daily weather records, 1991–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Molepolole's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Botswana — 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
+0.8°F
1970s
69.5°F
Recent
70.3°F
A steady upward drift

Molepolole's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

66°68°70°72°74°1991: 69.1°F1992: 72.4°F1993: 70.4°F1995: 71.1°F1996: 68.1°F1997: 68.0°F1998: 69.6°F1999: 70.9°F2000: 67.3°F2001: 68.2°F2002: 69.4°F2003: 70.9°F2004: 69.0°F2005: 71.6°F2006: 68.1°F2007: 69.8°F2008: 68.8°F2009: 68.3°F2010: 69.8°F2011: 67.7°F2012: 69.7°F2013: 70.4°F2014: 69.1°F2015: 72.6°F2016: 71.8°F2017: 69.5°F2018: 71.1°F2019: 71.7°F2020: 68.7°F2021: 68.7°F2022: 68.8°F2023: 69.7°F2024: 71.6°Flong-term trend19912000201020202024
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 30 years of daily observations at Sir Seretse Khama Intl, a weather station, about 46 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →