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Has the climate in Saarlouis changed?

Saarlouis has warmed about 3.7°F since 1971.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Saarlouis's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Saarlouis's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Germany — 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
21 fewer nights
1970s
84 / yr
Recent
63 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.5°F
1970s
48.6°F
Recent
51.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
3 more days
1970s
1 / yr
Recent
4 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
4 fewer days
1970s
172 / yr
Recent
168 / yr
Drier on average

Saarlouis's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

46°48°50°52°54°1971: 48.5°F1972: 47.4°F1973: 49.3°F1974: 49.8°F1975: 50.0°F1976: 50.9°F1977: 49.4°F1978: 47.8°F1979: 48.2°F1980: 47.2°F1981: 48.1°F1982: 49.5°F1983: 49.5°F1984: 47.6°F1985: 47.1°F1986: 47.6°F1987: 47.2°F1988: 49.5°F1989: 50.4°F1990: 50.5°F1991: 48.9°F1992: 50.2°F1993: 48.8°F1994: 51.1°F1995: 50.0°F1996: 47.1°F1997: 50.0°F1998: 49.5°F1999: 50.5°F2000: 50.6°F2001: 49.1°F2002: 50.8°F2003: 51.3°F2004: 49.3°F2005: 50.4°F2006: 50.9°F2007: 50.8°F2008: 49.7°F2009: 50.2°F2010: 48.0°F2011: 51.3°F2012: 50.0°F2013: 48.8°F2014: 52.2°F2015: 51.4°F2016: 50.2°F2017: 51.0°F2018: 52.7°F2019: 51.8°F2020: 52.6°F2021: 50.0°F2022: 53.3°F2023: 52.9°F2024: 52.0°F2025: 52.1°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
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 2 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: +1.2°F+1.2JFebruary: +1.0°F+1.0FMarch: +1.3°F+1.3MApril: +2.8°F+2.8AMay: +1.3°F+1.3MJune: +2.5°F+2.5JJuly: +2.0°F+2.0JAugust: +1.5°F+1.5ASeptember: +0.9°F+0.9SOctober: +1.2°F+1.2ONovember: +1.9°F+1.9NDecember: +0.6°F+0.6D

April has warmed the most — about 2.8°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Berus, a weather station, about 7 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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