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Has the climate in Banjul changed?

Banjul has warmed about 0.9°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Banjul's official daily weather records, 1991–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Banjul'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
+0.7°F
1970s
78.7°F
Recent
79.4°F
A steady upward drift

Banjul's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

76°78°80°82°1991: 78.1°F1992: 78.1°F1993: 78.1°F1994: 78.0°F1995: 77.9°F1997: 79.8°F1998: 79.8°F1999: 78.5°F2001: 79.8°F2002: 79.1°F2004: 79.4°F2007: 79.5°F2009: 77.9°F2010: 79.9°F2011: 78.7°F2012: 79.0°F2013: 78.9°F2015: 78.4°F2016: 78.8°F2017: 79.3°F2018: 77.9°F2019: 78.6°F2020: 80.2°F2021: 79.4°F2022: 79.3°F2023: 80.8°F2024: 80.4°Flong-term trend1991201020202024
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 25 years of daily observations at Banjul Intl, a weather station, about 15 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →