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Has the climate in Sidi Bel Abbes changed?

Sidi Bel Abbes has warmed about 2.6°F between 2002 and 2024.

About 1.1°F per decade, measured from Sidi Bel Abbes's official daily weather records, 2002–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Sidi Bel Abbes's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Algeria.

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 more nights
1970s
20 / yr
Recent
22 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
+1.7°F
1970s
66.0°F
Recent
67.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
51 fewer days
1970s
78 / yr
Recent
27 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
3 fewer days
1970s
56 / yr
Recent
53 / yr
Drier on average

Sidi Bel Abbes's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2002 to 2024.

63°65°67°69°71°2002: 65.1°F2003: 67.6°F2004: 66.7°F2005: 65.3°F2006: 67.2°F2007: 64.6°F2008: 65.2°F2009: 66.9°F2010: 66.5°F2011: 66.2°F2012: 66.1°F2013: 64.6°F2014: 66.5°F2015: 66.8°F2016: 67.1°F2017: 67.6°F2018: 65.2°F2019: 66.1°F2020: 68.1°F2021: 67.9°F2022: 68.8°F2023: 68.5°F2024: 69.2°Flong-term trend2002201020202024
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 19 more freezing nights a year and about 58 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 15 years of daily observations at Sidi-bel-abbes, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →