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Has the climate in Addis Ababa changed?

Addis Ababa has warmed about 0.7°F between 1994 and 2024.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Addis Ababa's official daily weather records, 1994–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Addis Ababa'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
+0.8°F
1970s
62.2°F
Recent
63.0°F
A steady upward drift

Addis Ababa's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1994 to 2024.

60°62°64°66°1994: 61.6°F1995: 62.3°F1996: 61.6°F1997: 62.9°F1998: 62.4°F1999: 62.6°F2005: 64.1°F2007: 62.4°F2011: 62.8°F2012: 62.8°F2013: 63.0°F2014: 63.6°F2015: 64.1°F2016: 63.1°F2017: 62.4°F2019: 63.1°F2020: 62.9°F2023: 62.8°F2024: 63.6°Flong-term trend199420202024
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 Bole Intl, a weather station, about 8 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →