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Has the climate in Médéa changed?

Médéa has warmed about 1.1°F between 2002 and 2020.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Médéa's official daily weather records, 2002–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Médéa'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 more night
1970s
6 / yr
Recent
7 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
+0.9°F
1970s
60.4°F
Recent
61.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
19 fewer days
1970s
37 / yr
Recent
18 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
88 / yr
Recent
89 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Médéa's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2002 to 2020.

58°60°62°64°2002: 59.3°F2004: 61.0°F2005: 59.9°F2006: 61.9°F2007: 60.1°F2008: 60.0°F2009: 61.0°F2010: 60.3°F2011: 61.1°F2012: 61.7°F2013: 59.4°F2014: 61.2°F2015: 62.1°F2016: 61.7°F2017: 62.2°F2018: 59.3°F2019: 60.3°F2020: 61.8°Flong-term trend200220102020
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 6 more freezing nights a year and about 29 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 13 years of daily observations at Medea, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →