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Has the climate in Qingyuan changed?

Qingyuan has warmed about 3.9°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Qingyuan'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? Qingyuan'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
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+2.5°F
1970s
71.3°F
Recent
73.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
31 fewer days
1970s
78 / yr
Recent
47 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
3 more days
1970s
141 / yr
Recent
144 / yr
Wetter on average

Qingyuan's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

69°71°73°75°77°1971: 70.7°F1972: 71.1°F1973: 71.9°F1974: 71.0°F1975: 71.2°F1976: 70.4°F1977: 71.7°F1978: 71.2°F1979: 71.3°F1980: 72.0°F1981: 71.8°F1982: 71.5°F1983: 70.9°F1984: 70.3°F1985: 71.0°F1986: 71.9°F1987: 72.8°F1988: 71.1°F1989: 72.2°F1990: 72.8°F1991: 73.1°F1992: 71.7°F1993: 72.0°F1994: 73.2°F1995: 72.2°F1996: 71.0°F1997: 71.6°F1998: 73.2°F1999: 72.6°F2000: 72.5°F2001: 72.7°F2002: 73.4°F2003: 73.4°F2004: 73.1°F2005: 73.0°F2006: 73.8°F2007: 73.8°F2008: 72.4°F2009: 73.4°F2010: 72.7°F2011: 70.6°F2012: 71.0°F2013: 73.3°F2014: 73.9°F2015: 74.6°F2016: 73.7°F2017: 74.4°F2018: 74.3°F2019: 75.2°F2020: 74.8°F2021: 75.9°F2022: 74.4°F2023: 75.4°F2024: 75.3°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 10 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°January: +0.4°F+0.4JFebruary: +2.0°F+2.0FMarch: +0.9°F+0.9MApril: +1.0°F+1.0AMay: +1.0°F+1.0MJune: +0.7°F+0.7JJuly: +0.9°F+0.9JAugust: +0.8°F+0.8ASeptember: +0.7°F+0.7SOctober: +0.9°F+0.9ONovember: +1.5°F+1.5NDecember: +0.7°F+0.7D

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 23 years of daily observations at Guangzhou, a weather station, about 71 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →