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Has the climate in Eilat changed?

Eilat has warmed about 4.1°F between 1971 and 2023.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Eilat'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? Eilat's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Israel — 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
+2.9°F
1970s
77.2°F
Recent
80.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
34 fewer days
1970s
182 / yr
Recent
148 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
4 fewer days
1970s
10 / yr
Recent
6 / yr
Drier on average

Eilat's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2023.

74°76°78°80°82°84°1971: 75.8°F1972: 75.9°F1973: 76.2°F1974: 76.6°F1975: 76.6°F1976: 76.8°F1977: 77.5°F1978: 77.8°F1979: 78.4°F1980: 77.6°F1981: 77.7°F1982: 76.6°F1983: 76.4°F1984: 77.3°F1985: 77.9°F1986: 78.6°F1987: 78.0°F1988: 77.9°F1989: 77.5°F1990: 78.3°F1991: 77.9°F1992: 78.7°F1993: 80.5°F1994: 80.6°F1995: 78.7°F1996: 79.0°F1997: 77.6°F1998: 79.1°F1999: 78.6°F2000: 77.4°F2001: 79.8°F2002: 79.8°F2003: 79.3°F2004: 79.2°F2005: 79.2°F2006: 79.0°F2007: 79.3°F2008: 79.8°F2009: 79.7°F2010: 82.5°F2011: 79.1°F2012: 80.4°F2013: 80.2°F2014: 81.1°F2015: 80.7°F2016: 80.2°F2017: 79.9°F2018: 80.9°F2019: 79.4°F2020: 79.8°F2021: 79.8°F2022: 78.5°F2023: 79.9°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 48 fewer 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°January: +0.9°F+0.9JFebruary: +0.5°F+0.5FMarch: +1.5°F+1.5MApril: +1.2°F+1.2AMay: +1.8°F+1.8MJune: +2.3°F+2.3JJuly: +2.0°F+2.0JAugust: +2.0°F+2.0ASeptember: +2.0°F+2.0SOctober: +1.8°F+1.8ONovember: +1.9°F+1.9NDecember: +1.5°F+1.5D

June has warmed the most — about 2.3°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 18 years of daily observations at Elat, a weather station, inside the city. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →