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Has the climate in Béchar changed?

Béchar has warmed about 3.3°F between 1973 and 2024.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Béchar's official daily weather records, 1973–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Béchar's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Algeria — 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
2 fewer nights
1970s
5 / yr
Recent
3 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.1°F
1970s
70.2°F
Recent
72.3°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
48 fewer days
1970s
116 / yr
Recent
68 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
14 more days
1970s
7 / yr
Recent
21 / yr
Wetter on average

Béchar's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2024.

66°68°70°72°74°76°1973: 70.1°F1974: 69.3°F1975: 69.4°F1976: 68.8°F1977: 71.2°F1978: 70.8°F1979: 70.8°F1980: 70.7°F1981: 71.8°F1982: 69.3°F1983: 70.9°F1984: 69.6°F1985: 70.3°F1986: 69.6°F1987: 71.4°F1988: 70.0°F1989: 69.8°F1990: 72.6°F1991: 68.6°F1992: 67.8°F1993: 69.4°F1994: 71.1°F1995: 70.2°F1996: 70.0°F1997: 71.3°F1998: 71.1°F1999: 71.9°F2000: 71.3°F2001: 73.5°F2002: 72.0°F2003: 71.5°F2004: 71.0°F2005: 71.7°F2006: 71.6°F2007: 71.2°F2008: 70.7°F2009: 71.4°F2010: 73.5°F2011: 71.3°F2012: 71.4°F2013: 71.7°F2014: 72.8°F2015: 71.9°F2016: 72.3°F2017: 72.7°F2018: 70.9°F2019: 71.7°F2020: 72.6°F2021: 73.4°F2022: 73.0°F2023: 73.2°F2024: 74.1°Flong-term trend1973198019902000201020202024
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 24 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.

-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +0.2°F+0.2JFebruary: -1.3°F-1.3FMarch: +0.8°F+0.8MApril: +1.6°F+1.6AMay: +1.3°F+1.3MJune: +0.7°F+0.7JJuly: +1.2°F+1.2JAugust: +1.0°F+1.0ASeptember: +0.4°F+0.4SOctober: +1.3°F+1.3ONovember: -0.0°F-0.0NDecember: +0.2°F+0.2D

April has warmed the most — about 1.6°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 Bechar, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →