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Has the climate in Aachen changed?

Aachen has warmed about 2.3°F between 1971 and 2010.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Aachen's official daily weather records, 1971–2010. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

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

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
2 fewer nights
1970s
53 / yr
Recent
51 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.7°F
1970s
50.1°F
Recent
51.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 more day
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
3 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
5 more days
1970s
180 / yr
Recent
185 / yr
Wetter on average

Aachen's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2010.

46°48°50°52°54°1971: 50.5°F1972: 49.4°F1973: 50.1°F1974: 50.6°F1975: 51.0°F1976: 52.0°F1977: 50.2°F1978: 48.8°F1979: 48.7°F1980: 49.1°F1981: 49.4°F1982: 50.9°F1983: 50.7°F1984: 49.3°F1985: 47.7°F1986: 48.7°F1987: 48.8°F1988: 51.4°F1989: 52.8°F1990: 51.7°F1991: 49.9°F1992: 51.0°F1993: 50.4°F1994: 52.6°F1995: 51.8°F1996: 48.4°F1997: 51.6°F1998: 51.4°F1999: 52.5°F2000: 52.8°F2001: 51.5°F2002: 52.4°F2003: 52.3°F2004: 51.1°F2005: 51.8°F2006: 52.7°F2007: 52.6°F2008: 51.3°F2009: 51.5°F2010: 49.2°Flong-term trend19711980199020002010
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.

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.

-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: +0.5°F+0.5JFebruary: +1.2°F+1.2FMarch: +1.1°F+1.1MApril: +2.4°F+2.4AMay: +1.1°F+1.1MJune: +1.6°F+1.6JJuly: +1.8°F+1.8JAugust: +1.0°F+1.0ASeptember: +0.7°F+0.7SOctober: +0.5°F+0.5ONovember: +0.9°F+0.9NDecember: -1.2°F-1.2D

April has warmed the most — about 2.4°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 20 years of daily observations at Aachen, a weather station, about 1 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →