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Has the climate in Xiamen changed?

Xiamen has warmed about 4.2°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Xiamen'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? Xiamen'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
+2.8°F
1970s
68.9°F
Recent
71.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
24 fewer days
1970s
59 / yr
Recent
35 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
3 fewer days
1970s
115 / yr
Recent
112 / yr
Drier on average

Xiamen's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

66°68°70°72°74°1971: 69.3°F1972: 69.5°F1973: 69.7°F1974: 69.5°F1975: 69.6°F1976: 68.6°F1977: 70.4°F1978: 69.6°F1979: 69.9°F1980: 69.8°F1981: 68.3°F1982: 68.5°F1983: 68.5°F1984: 67.5°F1985: 67.9°F1986: 68.0°F1987: 68.6°F1988: 68.0°F1989: 68.6°F1990: 69.1°F1991: 69.3°F1992: 67.9°F1993: 68.8°F1994: 69.7°F1995: 68.2°F1996: 68.8°F1997: 69.2°F1998: 70.8°F1999: 69.9°F2000: 70.1°F2001: 70.4°F2002: 70.8°F2003: 70.4°F2004: 69.9°F2005: 69.4°F2006: 70.3°F2007: 71.0°F2008: 69.7°F2009: 70.4°F2010: 69.7°F2011: 69.5°F2012: 69.8°F2013: 71.4°F2014: 71.7°F2015: 72.1°F2016: 72.1°F2017: 72.7°F2018: 72.8°F2019: 72.9°F2020: 73.3°F2021: 73.6°F2022: 72.3°F2023: 73.1°F2024: 73.3°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°January: +0.5°F+0.5JFebruary: +1.5°F+1.5FMarch: +1.5°F+1.5MApril: +1.2°F+1.2AMay: +1.1°F+1.1MJune: +0.5°F+0.5JJuly: +0.5°F+0.5JAugust: +0.3°F+0.3ASeptember: +0.5°F+0.5SOctober: +0.3°F+0.3ONovember: +0.9°F+0.9NDecember: +0.8°F+0.8D

February has warmed the most — about 1.5°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 Xiamen, a weather station, inside the city. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →