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Has the climate in Palu changed?

How Palu's climate has changed

About 0.1°F per decade, measured from Palu's official daily weather records, 1976–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Palu'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
+0.7°F
1970s
81.2°F
Recent
81.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
104 more days
1970s
166 / yr
Recent
270 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
14 fewer days
1970s
21 / yr
Recent
7 / yr
Drier on average

Palu's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1976 to 2024.

79°81°83°1976: 82.3°F1977: 81.9°F1978: 80.5°F1995: 80.3°F1996: 80.4°F1997: 81.5°F1998: 82.1°F1999: 80.5°F2000: 81.1°F2001: 81.2°F2002: 81.7°F2003: 81.6°F2004: 82.0°F2005: 81.3°F2006: 81.6°F2007: 80.9°F2008: 80.2°F2009: 81.9°F2010: 81.4°F2011: 81.1°F2012: 81.4°F2013: 81.7°F2014: 81.8°F2015: 82.6°F2016: 82.6°F2017: 81.1°F2018: 82.0°F2019: 82.2°F2020: 81.8°F2021: 81.0°F2022: 81.0°F2023: 82.7°F2024: 82.6°Flong-term trend19762000201020202024
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 130 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°January: +0.5°F+0.5JFebruary: +0.7°F+0.7FMarch: +0.9°F+0.9MApril: +0.6°F+0.6AMay: +0.7°F+0.7MJune: +0.3°F+0.3JJuly: +0.3°F+0.3JAugust: +0.6°F+0.6ASeptember: +0.9°F+0.9SOctober: +0.9°F+0.9ONovember: +0.9°F+0.9NDecember: +0.8°F+0.8D

October has warmed the most — about 0.9°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 Mutiara, 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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