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Has the climate in Rottenburg changed?

Rottenburg has cooled about 0.9°F between 1988 and 2002.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Rottenburg's official daily weather records, 1988–2002. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Rottenburg'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
83 more nights
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
83 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
about the same
1970s
51.1°F
Recent
50.9°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved
Hot days above 90°F
3 more days
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
3 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
19 more days
1970s
163 / yr
Recent
182 / yr
Wetter on average

Rottenburg's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1988 to 2002.

46°48°50°52°54°56°1988: 54.7°F1989: 50.4°F1990: 50.6°F1991: 49.0°F1992: 50.7°F1993: 49.7°F1994: 52.1°F1995: 49.8°F1996: 47.8°F1997: 50.0°F1998: 50.3°F1999: 50.7°F2000: 51.8°F2001: 50.7°F2002: 51.1°Flong-term trend1988199020002002
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 49 more freezing nights a year and about 3 more 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°January: -0.1°F-0.1JFebruary: +0.0°F+0.0FMarch: -0.3°F-0.3MApril: +0.1°F+0.1AMay: -0.1°F-0.1MJune: +0.4°F+0.4JJuly: +0.2°F+0.2JAugust: +0.3°F+0.3ASeptember: -0.3°F-0.3SOctober: -0.1°F-0.1ONovember: +0.7°F+0.7NDecember: -0.1°F-0.1D

November has warmed the most — about 0.7°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 12 years of daily observations at Reutlingen-betzingen, a weather station, about 19 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →