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Has the climate in Balikpapan changed?

Balikpapan has warmed about 0.5°F between 1993 and 2024.

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from Balikpapan's official daily weather records, 1993–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Balikpapan's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Indonesia — 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
+0.3°F
1970s
81.4°F
Recent
81.7°F
A steady upward drift

Balikpapan's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1993 to 2024.

79°81°83°1993: 81.3°F1994: 80.8°F1995: 80.9°F1996: 80.9°F1997: 81.7°F1998: 82.6°F1999: 81.1°F2003: 81.7°F2004: 81.7°F2005: 81.6°F2006: 81.6°F2007: 81.9°F2008: 81.5°F2009: 82.1°F2010: 81.6°F2011: 81.3°F2012: 81.3°F2013: 81.7°F2014: 82.0°F2015: 82.4°F2016: 82.5°F2017: 81.4°F2018: 81.6°F2019: 82.0°F2020: 81.7°F2021: 81.4°F2022: 81.0°F2023: 82.1°F2024: 82.0°Flong-term trend1993201020202024
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 27 years of daily observations at Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan, a weather station, about 7 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →