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Has the climate in Wuhan changed?

Wuhan has warmed about 4.1°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Wuhan'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? Wuhan'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
10 fewer nights
1970s
42 / yr
Recent
32 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.6°F
1970s
61.4°F
Recent
64.0°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
16 fewer days
1970s
54 / yr
Recent
38 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
20 fewer days
1970s
118 / yr
Recent
98 / yr
Drier on average

Wuhan's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

59°61°63°65°67°1971: 60.5°F1972: 60.6°F1973: 61.7°F1974: 61.3°F1975: 61.8°F1976: 61.0°F1977: 61.4°F1978: 62.5°F1979: 62.2°F1980: 60.7°F1981: 61.5°F1982: 61.5°F1983: 61.8°F1984: 60.7°F1985: 61.1°F1986: 61.7°F1987: 62.0°F1988: 62.0°F1989: 61.2°F1990: 62.9°F1991: 61.6°F1992: 62.2°F1993: 61.3°F1994: 63.3°F1995: 63.4°F1996: 62.3°F1997: 63.7°F1998: 64.7°F1999: 63.7°F2000: 63.9°F2001: 64.6°F2002: 64.5°F2003: 63.5°F2004: 64.9°F2005: 64.2°F2006: 65.1°F2007: 65.4°F2008: 63.9°F2009: 64.2°F2010: 61.9°F2011: 61.5°F2012: 61.5°F2013: 64.0°F2014: 63.3°F2015: 63.3°F2016: 64.0°F2017: 64.4°F2018: 64.6°F2019: 64.8°F2020: 63.9°F2021: 65.0°F2022: 65.3°F2023: 65.2°F2024: 66.0°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 freezing nights a year and about 7 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: +0.8°F+0.8JFebruary: +2.7°F+2.7FMarch: +2.6°F+2.6MApril: +2.0°F+2.0AMay: +1.7°F+1.7MJune: +1.5°F+1.5JJuly: +1.3°F+1.3JAugust: +0.2°F+0.2ASeptember: +1.8°F+1.8SOctober: +1.6°F+1.6ONovember: +1.4°F+1.4NDecember: +0.5°F+0.5D

February 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 23 years of daily observations at Wuhan, a weather station, about 21 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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