Climate-Zone.com

HomeCitiesAlgeriaSkikdaTools › Climate trends

Has the climate in Skikda changed?

Skikda has warmed about 4.4°F between 1973 and 2024.

About 1.1°F per decade, measured from Skikda'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? Skikda'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
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+3.2°F
1970s
65.2°F
Recent
68.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 fewer day
1970s
13 / yr
Recent
12 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
34 more days
1970s
52 / yr
Recent
86 / yr
Wetter on average

Skikda's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2024.

62°64°66°68°70°72°1973: 64.3°F1975: 65.1°F1977: 65.6°F1980: 64.6°F1981: 65.5°F1982: 66.4°F1983: 65.3°F1984: 63.6°F1985: 65.2°F1986: 64.7°F1987: 65.8°F1988: 65.2°F1989: 65.4°F1990: 66.0°F1991: 63.7°F1992: 63.8°F1993: 64.3°F1994: 66.5°F1995: 65.5°F1996: 65.2°F1997: 66.3°F1998: 65.5°F1999: 66.4°F2000: 66.2°F2001: 66.9°F2002: 66.0°F2003: 67.4°F2005: 65.2°F2006: 66.9°F2007: 66.2°F2010: 64.4°F2011: 65.9°F2015: 70.3°F2016: 68.7°F2017: 67.9°F2018: 68.2°F2019: 68.2°F2020: 69.2°F2021: 69.9°F2022: 70.7°F2023: 70.1°F2024: 70.7°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.

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°January: +0.8°F+0.8JFebruary: +0.3°F+0.3FMarch: +1.8°F+1.8MApril: +2.0°F+2.0AMay: +1.9°F+1.9MJune: +1.9°F+1.9JJuly: +1.4°F+1.4JAugust: +2.0°F+2.0ASeptember: +0.9°F+0.9SOctober: +1.4°F+1.4ONovember: +0.9°F+0.9NDecember: +0.5°F+0.5D

April has warmed the most — about 2.0°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 21 years of daily observations at Skikda, a weather station, about 7 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →