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Has the climate in Laayoune changed?

Laayoune has warmed about 1.1°F between 1999 and 2024.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Laayoune's official daily weather records, 1999–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Laayoune's warming is broadly in line with other cities across Africa — 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.

Average temperature
+0.6°F
1970s
69.5°F
Recent
70.2°F
A steady upward drift

Laayoune's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1999 to 2024.

67°69°71°73°1999: 69.6°F2000: 68.8°F2001: 69.8°F2002: 69.4°F2003: 70.0°F2004: 69.7°F2005: 69.2°F2006: 69.6°F2007: 69.0°F2008: 69.8°F2009: 69.9°F2010: 71.1°F2011: 69.5°F2012: 69.5°F2013: 69.5°F2014: 68.9°F2015: 69.9°F2016: 69.6°F2017: 70.4°F2018: 68.4°F2019: 68.5°F2020: 70.6°F2021: 69.2°F2022: 70.9°F2023: 71.7°F2024: 71.7°Flong-term trend19992000201020202024
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.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 22 years of daily observations at Hassan I, 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 →