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Has the climate in Padang changed?

Padang has warmed about 0.5°F between 1975 and 2020.

About 0.1°F per decade, measured from Padang's official daily weather records, 1975–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Padang'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.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+0.6°F
1970s
79.8°F
Recent
80.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
51 more days
1970s
14 / yr
Recent
65 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
47 fewer days
1970s
52 / yr
Recent
5 / yr
Drier on average

Padang's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1975 to 2020.

78°80°82°1975: 79.9°F1976: 80.1°F1977: 80.1°F1978: 79.7°F1979: 79.6°F1980: 79.8°F1982: 79.7°F1983: 80.2°F1986: 79.5°F1993: 79.5°F1994: 79.6°F1995: 80.0°F1996: 80.0°F1997: 79.9°F1998: 81.1°F1999: 79.7°F2001: 80.3°F2002: 80.7°F2003: 80.4°F2004: 80.5°F2005: 80.5°F2006: 80.3°F2007: 80.2°F2008: 79.8°F2009: 80.3°F2010: 80.9°F2011: 80.4°F2012: 80.2°F2013: 80.1°F2014: 80.0°F2015: 80.3°F2016: 80.7°F2017: 80.1°F2018: 80.0°F2019: 80.4°F2020: 80.9°Flong-term trend1975198020102020
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 37 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: -0.0°F-0.0JFebruary: +0.5°F+0.5FMarch: +0.7°F+0.7MApril: +1.0°F+1.0AMay: +0.2°F+0.2MJune: -0.3°F-0.3JJuly: +0.1°F+0.1JAugust: +1.1°F+1.1ASeptember: +2.1°F+2.1SOctober: +0.6°F+0.6ONovember: +0.5°F+0.5NDecember: +1.2°F+1.2D

September has warmed the most — about 2.1°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 23 years of daily observations at Padang/tabing, 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 →