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Has the climate in Guilin changed?

Guilin has warmed about 3.2°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Guilin'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? Guilin's warming is broadly in line with other cities in China — 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
3 fewer nights
1970s
4 / yr
Recent
1 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.1°F
1970s
65.8°F
Recent
67.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
12 fewer days
1970s
70 / yr
Recent
58 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
163 / yr
Recent
163 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Guilin's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

63°65°67°69°71°1971: 65.5°F1972: 65.7°F1973: 66.5°F1974: 65.9°F1975: 65.5°F1976: 64.7°F1977: 65.8°F1978: 66.3°F1979: 66.5°F1980: 65.8°F1981: 65.6°F1982: 65.8°F1983: 66.2°F1984: 64.3°F1985: 65.5°F1986: 66.2°F1987: 66.6°F1988: 65.5°F1989: 65.9°F1990: 66.7°F1991: 66.2°F1992: 66.5°F1993: 65.5°F1994: 66.1°F1995: 66.4°F1996: 65.7°F1997: 66.1°F1998: 67.9°F1999: 67.2°F2000: 66.0°F2001: 66.7°F2002: 67.0°F2003: 67.3°F2004: 67.4°F2005: 66.6°F2006: 67.4°F2007: 68.2°F2008: 66.8°F2009: 68.0°F2010: 67.3°F2011: 66.8°F2012: 66.0°F2013: 67.5°F2014: 67.4°F2015: 67.4°F2016: 68.1°F2017: 68.1°F2018: 67.9°F2019: 68.0°F2020: 68.0°F2021: 69.2°F2022: 68.4°F2023: 69.2°F2024: 69.2°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 9 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: -0.1°F-0.1JFebruary: +2.1°F+2.1FMarch: +1.4°F+1.4MApril: +1.1°F+1.1AMay: +1.0°F+1.0MJune: +0.1°F+0.1JJuly: +0.3°F+0.3JAugust: +0.5°F+0.5ASeptember: +0.6°F+0.6SOctober: +1.2°F+1.2ONovember: +1.2°F+1.2NDecember: +0.1°F+0.1D

February has warmed the most — about 2.1°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 22 years of daily observations at Guilin, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →