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Has the climate in Bossangoa changed?

How Bossangoa's climate has changed

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Bossangoa's official daily weather records, 1971–2009. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Bossangoa's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Central African Republic — 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.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
about the same
1970s
79.2°F
Recent
79.3°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved
Hot days above 90°F
29 fewer days
1970s
243 / yr
Recent
214 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
22 fewer days
1970s
110 / yr
Recent
88 / yr
Drier on average

Bossangoa's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2009.

77°79°81°1971: 78.8°F1972: 79.4°F1973: 80.3°F1974: 78.3°F1975: 78.2°F1976: 78.4°F1977: 79.0°F1978: 78.7°F1979: 78.7°F1980: 79.1°F1993: 79.3°F2009: 80.0°Flong-term trend197119802009
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 38 fewer days above 90°F 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.

-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°March: +0.9°F+0.9MApril: +1.7°F+1.7AJuly: +1.4°F+1.4JSeptember: +1.0°F+1.0SOctober: -1.1°F-1.1ONovember: +1.7°F+1.7N

April has warmed the most — about 1.7°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

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 →