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Has the climate in Zadar changed?

Zadar has warmed about 4.5°F between 1971 and 2023.

About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Zadar's official daily weather records, 1971–2023. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Zadar's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Croatia — 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
7 fewer nights
1970s
13 / yr
Recent
6 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+3.2°F
1970s
58.7°F
Recent
61.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
12 more days
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
14 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
106 / yr
Recent
107 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Zadar's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2023.

56°58°60°62°64°1971: 58.8°F1972: 58.8°F1973: 58.8°F1974: 59.0°F1975: 59.4°F1976: 58.0°F1977: 59.3°F1978: 57.7°F1979: 59.2°F1980: 57.6°F1981: 58.3°F1982: 59.7°F1983: 58.9°F1984: 58.3°F1985: 58.5°F1986: 58.8°F1987: 58.6°F1988: 59.4°F1989: 59.1°F1990: 59.8°F1991: 58.2°F1992: 60.0°F1993: 59.5°F1994: 61.1°F1995: 59.0°F1996: 59.2°F1997: 59.9°F1998: 60.6°F1999: 60.8°F2000: 61.6°F2001: 60.7°F2002: 60.9°F2003: 61.3°F2004: 60.2°F2005: 59.3°F2006: 60.4°F2007: 61.4°F2008: 61.3°F2009: 61.1°F2010: 59.9°F2011: 61.8°F2012: 61.6°F2013: 61.4°F2014: 62.3°F2015: 62.1°F2016: 61.5°F2017: 61.4°F2018: 62.8°F2019: 62.5°F2020: 62.5°F2021: 61.6°F2022: 62.9°F2023: 63.4°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202023
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 2 fewer freezing nights a year and about 7 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°+3.0°January: +0.8°F+0.8JFebruary: +0.8°F+0.8FMarch: +1.5°F+1.5MApril: +1.9°F+1.9AMay: +1.8°F+1.8MJune: +2.7°F+2.7JJuly: +2.5°F+2.5JAugust: +2.4°F+2.4ASeptember: +1.3°F+1.3SOctober: +1.3°F+1.3ONovember: +2.2°F+2.2NDecember: +1.0°F+1.0D

June has warmed the most — about 2.7°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 Zadar, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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