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Has the climate in Maroua changed?

Maroua has warmed about 2.1°F between 1993 and 2024.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Maroua's official daily weather records, 1993–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Maroua'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.

Average temperature
+1.2°F
1970s
84.2°F
Recent
85.5°F
A steady upward drift

Maroua's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1993 to 2024.

81°83°85°87°1993: 83.0°F1994: 82.4°F1995: 82.3°F1996: 82.5°F2003: 85.6°F2004: 85.8°F2006: 86.8°F2007: 85.5°F2008: 85.4°F2009: 86.6°F2010: 86.1°F2011: 83.9°F2012: 84.2°F2013: 84.9°F2014: 85.5°F2015: 86.2°F2016: 86.2°F2017: 86.1°F2018: 86.0°F2019: 85.0°F2020: 86.2°F2021: 86.1°F2022: 84.1°F2023: 85.4°F2024: 85.1°Flong-term trend1993201020202024
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 24 years of daily observations at Garoua, a weather station, about 174 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →