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Has the climate in Mulhouse changed?

Mulhouse has warmed about 3.5°F between 1973 and 2020.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Mulhouse's official daily weather records, 1973–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Mulhouse'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
9 more nights
1970s
41 / yr
Recent
50 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
+2.3°F
1970s
49.6°F
Recent
51.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
6 more days
1970s
3 / yr
Recent
9 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
50 more days
1970s
133 / yr
Recent
183 / yr
Wetter on average

Mulhouse's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.

47°49°51°53°55°1973: 48.8°F1974: 50.3°F1975: 49.3°F1976: 49.8°F1977: 49.9°F1978: 48.6°F1979: 49.4°F1980: 48.2°F1981: 49.3°F1982: 51.1°F1983: 51.1°F1984: 49.4°F1985: 48.9°F1986: 49.2°F1987: 49.5°F1988: 51.0°F1989: 50.0°F1990: 51.6°F1991: 50.7°F1992: 51.9°F1993: 50.9°F1994: 53.3°F1995: 51.4°F1996: 49.1°F1997: 51.3°F1998: 51.3°F1999: 51.1°F2000: 52.4°F2001: 51.1°F2002: 51.9°F2003: 52.1°F2004: 50.7°F2005: 50.7°F2006: 51.3°F2007: 51.9°F2008: 50.9°F2009: 51.5°F2010: 49.6°F2011: 52.7°F2012: 51.3°F2013: 50.6°F2014: 53.2°F2015: 52.9°F2016: 51.5°F2017: 52.5°F2018: 54.1°F2019: 52.8°F2020: 53.6°Flong-term trend197319801990200020102020
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 8 more freezing nights a year and about 4 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.

-4.5°-4.0°-3.5°-3.0°-2.5°-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°+4.0°+4.5°+5.0°+5.5°+6.0°+6.5°+7.0°+7.5°+8.0°+8.5°+9.0°February: +1.0°F+1.0FApril: +8.8°F+8.8AMay: +1.1°F+1.1MJune: +1.4°F+1.4JJuly: +1.9°F+1.9JAugust: +1.9°F+1.9ASeptember: -4.0°F-4.0S

April has warmed the most — about 8.8°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 Trois-epis_sapc, a weather station, about 40 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →