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Has the climate in Marsá Maţrūḩ changed?

Marsá Maţrūḩ has warmed about 2.3°F between 1982 and 2024.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Marsá Maţrūḩ's official daily weather records, 1982–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Marsá Maţrūḩ's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Egypt.

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
+1.6°F
1970s
67.6°F
Recent
69.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
11 more days
1970s
12 / yr
Recent
23 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
16 fewer days
1970s
35 / yr
Recent
19 / yr
Drier on average

Marsá Maţrūḩ's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1982 to 2024.

65°67°69°71°1982: 67.6°F1983: 66.9°F1985: 69.3°F1986: 68.3°F1987: 67.2°F1988: 67.0°F1989: 67.2°F1990: 67.8°F1991: 67.3°F1992: 66.7°F1993: 68.1°F1994: 67.9°F1995: 67.6°F1996: 67.6°F1997: 67.2°F1998: 68.4°F1999: 69.3°F2000: 68.2°F2001: 68.7°F2002: 68.7°F2003: 68.3°F2004: 68.2°F2005: 68.0°F2006: 68.1°F2007: 68.4°F2008: 69.2°F2009: 68.7°F2010: 70.1°F2011: 68.1°F2012: 69.0°F2013: 68.9°F2014: 69.3°F2015: 68.8°F2016: 69.9°F2017: 68.6°F2018: 70.1°F2019: 68.5°F2020: 67.9°F2021: 69.8°F2022: 68.7°F2023: 69.9°F2024: 71.0°Flong-term trend198219902000201020202024
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 9 more 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +0.2°F+0.2JFebruary: +0.2°F+0.2FMarch: +1.8°F+1.8MApril: +1.0°F+1.0AMay: +0.5°F+0.5MJune: +0.4°F+0.4JJuly: +1.4°F+1.4JAugust: +1.3°F+1.3ASeptember: +1.5°F+1.5SOctober: +1.2°F+1.2ONovember: +1.1°F+1.1NDecember: +0.9°F+0.9D

March has warmed the most — about 1.8°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at Mersa Matruh, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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