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Has the climate in Impfondo changed?

Impfondo has warmed about 0.8°F between 1977 and 2020.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Impfondo's official daily weather records, 1977–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Impfondo's climate has warmed faster than most other cities across Africa.

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
+2.2°F
1970s
78.6°F
Recent
80.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 more day
1970s
52 / yr
Recent
53 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
3 more days
1970s
78 / yr
Recent
81 / yr
Wetter on average

Impfondo's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1977 to 2020.

76°78°80°82°1977: 77.5°F2010: 80.3°F2012: 77.9°F2013: 80.5°F2014: 80.3°F2015: 79.7°F2016: 80.9°F2017: 80.3°F2018: 80.6°F2019: 81.2°F2020: 80.6°Flong-term trend197720102020
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 35 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°February: +0.0°F+0.0FMarch: +0.0°F+0.0MApril: +0.0°F+0.0AJune: +0.8°F+0.8JAugust: -0.3°F-0.3ASeptember: +2.4°F+2.4SDecember: +1.0°F+1.0D

September has warmed the most — about 2.4°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 →