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Has the climate in Debrecen changed?

Debrecen has warmed about 4.9°F between 1973 and 2024.

About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Debrecen's official daily weather records, 1973–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Debrecen's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Hungary — 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
41 fewer nights
1970s
86 / yr
Recent
45 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+3.5°F
1970s
49.7°F
Recent
53.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
5 more days
1970s
5 / yr
Recent
10 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
6 more days
1970s
92 / yr
Recent
98 / yr
Wetter on average

Debrecen's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2024.

46°48°50°52°54°56°1973: 49.7°F1974: 50.6°F1975: 50.7°F1976: 49.2°F1977: 50.0°F1978: 48.4°F1979: 50.6°F1980: 47.8°F1981: 49.9°F1982: 49.8°F1983: 50.7°F1984: 49.6°F1985: 47.9°F1986: 50.1°F1987: 49.0°F1988: 49.8°F1989: 50.8°F1990: 51.5°F1991: 49.3°F1992: 51.1°F1993: 49.8°F1994: 52.4°F1995: 51.1°F1996: 50.4°F1997: 50.7°F1998: 50.5°F1999: 51.2°F2000: 52.7°F2001: 50.7°F2002: 52.3°F2003: 50.4°F2004: 50.6°F2005: 49.8°F2006: 51.1°F2007: 53.7°F2008: 53.0°F2009: 53.1°F2010: 51.1°F2011: 51.6°F2012: 52.7°F2013: 52.4°F2014: 54.1°F2015: 53.6°F2016: 52.0°F2017: 52.2°F2018: 54.4°F2019: 54.5°F2020: 52.8°F2021: 52.2°F2022: 53.8°F2023: 54.7°F2024: 55.6°Flong-term trend1973198019902000201020202024
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 26 fewer freezing nights a year and about 2 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.

-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°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: +0.8°F+0.8MApril: +2.6°F+2.6AMay: +1.5°F+1.5MJune: +2.0°F+2.0JJuly: +2.3°F+2.3JAugust: +2.5°F+2.5ASeptember: +0.5°F+0.5SOctober: +1.3°F+1.3ONovember: +1.5°F+1.5NDecember: -1.1°F-1.1D

April has warmed the most — about 2.6°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 24 years of daily observations at Debrecen, 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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