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Has the climate in Ajaccio changed?

Ajaccio has warmed about 4.1°F since 1971.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Ajaccio's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Ajaccio's warming is broadly in line with other cities in France — 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.

Freezing nights
6 fewer nights
1970s
11 / yr
Recent
5 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.7°F
1970s
58.7°F
Recent
61.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
8 more days
1970s
5 / yr
Recent
13 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
102 / yr
Recent
104 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Ajaccio's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

56°58°60°62°64°1971: 58.8°F1972: 58.4°F1973: 58.9°F1974: 58.0°F1975: 58.2°F1976: 58.1°F1977: 58.9°F1978: 57.7°F1979: 58.7°F1980: 57.1°F1981: 58.0°F1982: 59.6°F1983: 59.7°F1984: 57.7°F1985: 59.0°F1986: 59.8°F1987: 59.8°F1988: 60.1°F1989: 60.1°F1990: 60.3°F1991: 58.7°F1992: 59.9°F1993: 59.5°F1994: 60.8°F1995: 59.2°F1996: 59.3°F1997: 60.8°F1998: 59.2°F1999: 60.1°F2000: 60.4°F2001: 60.5°F2002: 60.0°F2003: 61.2°F2004: 60.0°F2005: 58.9°F2006: 60.7°F2007: 60.3°F2008: 60.3°F2009: 61.0°F2010: 59.7°F2011: 60.8°F2012: 60.6°F2013: 60.4°F2014: 61.5°F2015: 61.5°F2016: 61.3°F2017: 61.1°F2018: 62.4°F2019: 61.6°F2020: 60.7°F2021: 61.0°F2022: 63.0°F2023: 62.5°F2024: 62.8°F2025: 63.5°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
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 3 fewer freezing nights a year and about 3 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°+2.5°January: +0.9°F+0.9JFebruary: +0.3°F+0.3FMarch: +1.1°F+1.1MApril: +2.0°F+2.0AMay: +1.6°F+1.6MJune: +2.3°F+2.3JJuly: +1.8°F+1.8JAugust: +1.6°F+1.6ASeptember: +1.1°F+1.1SOctober: +1.6°F+1.6ONovember: +1.9°F+1.9NDecember: +1.0°F+1.0D

June has warmed the most — about 2.3°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Ajaccio, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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