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Has the climate in Bouar changed?

How Bouar's climate has changed

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from Bouar's official daily weather records, 1977–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Bouar'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
+1.5°F
1970s
73.3°F
Recent
74.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
29 fewer days
1970s
47 / yr
Recent
18 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
9 more days
1970s
91 / yr
Recent
100 / yr
Wetter on average

Bouar's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1977 to 2024.

70°72°74°76°1977: 73.8°F2009: 74.1°F2011: 71.9°F2012: 72.0°F2013: 72.6°F2016: 75.0°F2017: 74.6°F2018: 73.7°F2021: 74.6°F2022: 74.6°F2024: 75.2°Flong-term trend19772024
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 14 more 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.

-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°March: +0.8°F+0.8MApril: -1.6°F-1.6AJune: +1.1°F+1.1JJuly: +1.6°F+1.6JSeptember: -0.3°F-0.3SOctober: +1.2°F+1.2O

April has cooled the most — about 1.6°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 4 years of daily observations at Bouar, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →