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Has the climate in Rishon LeTsiyyon changed?

Rishon LeTsiyyon has warmed about 5.3°F since 1971.

About 1.0°F per decade, measured from Rishon LeTsiyyon's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Rishon LeTsiyyon'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
1 fewer night
1970s
1 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+3.8°F
1970s
66.4°F
Recent
70.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
52 more days
1970s
24 / yr
Recent
76 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
20 fewer days
1970s
58 / yr
Recent
38 / yr
Drier on average

Rishon LeTsiyyon's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

63°65°67°69°71°73°1971: 66.6°F1972: 66.2°F1973: 66.4°F1974: 66.6°F1975: 66.6°F1976: 66.5°F1977: 66.6°F1978: 66.5°F1979: 67.6°F1980: 66.5°F1981: 66.5°F1982: 65.3°F1983: 65.0°F1984: 65.7°F1985: 66.8°F1986: 66.4°F1987: 66.0°F1988: 66.8°F1989: 66.4°F1990: 67.2°F1991: 67.6°F1992: 65.7°F1993: 66.9°F1994: 68.4°F1995: 67.2°F1996: 68.2°F1997: 67.2°F1998: 69.4°F1999: 69.0°F2000: 67.8°F2001: 69.1°F2002: 69.0°F2003: 68.6°F2004: 68.2°F2005: 68.4°F2006: 68.3°F2007: 69.1°F2008: 69.1°F2009: 69.7°F2010: 71.7°F2011: 69.4°F2012: 70.2°F2013: 70.1°F2014: 69.9°F2015: 69.7°F2016: 70.3°F2017: 69.4°F2018: 71.2°F2019: 69.5°F2020: 70.1°F2021: 70.3°F2022: 69.1°F2023: 70.9°F2024: 71.0°F2025: 70.9°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
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 24 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°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: +1.2°F+1.2JFebruary: +1.7°F+1.7FMarch: +2.4°F+2.4MApril: +1.5°F+1.5AMay: +2.5°F+2.5MJune: +2.5°F+2.5JJuly: +2.6°F+2.6JAugust: +2.8°F+2.8ASeptember: +2.7°F+2.7SOctober: +2.5°F+2.5ONovember: +2.0°F+2.0NDecember: +1.8°F+1.8D

August has warmed the most — about 2.8°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Bet Dagan, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →