El Oued has warmed about 3.9°F between 1973 and 2024.
About 0.8°F per decade, measured from El Oued'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? El Oued'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
1 fewer night
1970s
2 / yr
→
Recent
1 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.6°F
1970s
70.9°F
→
Recent
73.5°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
28 fewer days
1970s
120 / yr
→
Recent
92 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
11 / yr
→
Recent
13 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same
El Oued's temperature, year by year
Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2024.
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.
October has warmed the most — about 2.3°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.
Methodology & sources
Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 24 years of daily observations at Guemar, a weather station, about 19 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.