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Has the climate in Changde changed?

Changde has warmed about 2.8°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Changde's official daily weather records, 1971–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Changde's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in China.

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
8 fewer nights
1970s
22 / yr
Recent
14 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.8°F
1970s
62.1°F
Recent
63.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 fewer day
1970s
52 / yr
Recent
51 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
4 more days
1970s
136 / yr
Recent
140 / yr
Wetter on average

Changde's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

59°61°63°65°67°1971: 61.5°F1972: 61.8°F1973: 62.3°F1974: 61.6°F1975: 62.3°F1976: 61.4°F1977: 62.3°F1978: 63.1°F1979: 62.9°F1980: 61.4°F1981: 62.0°F1982: 61.6°F1983: 62.3°F1984: 61.0°F1985: 62.1°F1986: 62.4°F1987: 62.9°F1988: 62.9°F1989: 61.7°F1990: 63.5°F1991: 62.3°F1992: 63.0°F1993: 61.9°F1994: 63.6°F1995: 63.7°F1996: 62.5°F1997: 63.5°F1998: 64.8°F1999: 63.8°F2000: 63.5°F2001: 64.3°F2002: 64.0°F2003: 63.3°F2004: 65.0°F2005: 64.2°F2006: 65.3°F2007: 65.2°F2008: 64.4°F2009: 64.6°F2010: 64.3°F2011: 63.9°F2012: 61.2°F2013: 64.5°F2014: 62.7°F2015: 63.1°F2016: 63.3°F2017: 63.5°F2018: 63.4°F2019: 63.3°F2020: 62.7°F2021: 64.7°F2022: 65.0°F2023: 64.7°F2024: 65.6°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202024
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 7 fewer freezing nights a year and about 4 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: +0.9°F+0.9JFebruary: +2.4°F+2.4FMarch: +2.7°F+2.7MApril: +1.6°F+1.6AMay: +1.4°F+1.4MJune: +1.4°F+1.4JJuly: +0.5°F+0.5JAugust: +0.3°F+0.3ASeptember: +1.3°F+1.3SOctober: +1.1°F+1.1ONovember: +1.2°F+1.2NDecember: +0.5°F+0.5D

March has warmed the most — about 2.7°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 25 years of daily observations at Changde, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →