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Has the climate in Bikaner changed?

Bikaner has warmed about 1.9°F since 1973.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Bikaner's official daily weather records, 1973–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Bikaner's warming is broadly in line with other cities in India — 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
+1.3°F
1970s
79.4°F
Recent
80.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
48 more days
1970s
197 / yr
Recent
245 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
22 / yr
Recent
23 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Bikaner's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2025.

76°78°80°82°84°1973: 79.3°F1974: 79.9°F1975: 78.0°F1976: 78.9°F1977: 79.2°F1978: 79.1°F1979: 79.5°F1980: 80.5°F1981: 80.0°F1982: 78.4°F1983: 77.6°F1984: 79.3°F1985: 80.4°F1986: 79.5°F1987: 81.5°F1988: 81.0°F1989: 79.5°F1990: 79.7°F1991: 80.2°F1992: 78.8°F1993: 80.6°F1994: 79.6°F1995: 80.0°F1996: 78.9°F1997: 79.1°F1998: 82.5°F1999: 83.1°F2001: 81.3°F2002: 83.5°F2003: 80.6°F2004: 82.2°F2005: 80.3°F2006: 82.0°F2007: 81.0°F2008: 80.8°F2009: 81.7°F2010: 81.2°F2011: 80.0°F2012: 79.8°F2013: 80.5°F2014: 80.1°F2015: 79.8°F2022: 81.4°F2023: 80.4°F2024: 81.3°F2025: 80.5°Flong-term trend19731980199020102025
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 5 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.

-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°+4.0°+4.5°+5.0°+5.5°+6.0°January: +1.8°F+1.8JFebruary: +4.0°F+4.0FMarch: +5.6°F+5.6MApril: +0.4°F+0.4AMay: +1.8°F+1.8MJune: +0.6°F+0.6JJuly: +3.4°F+3.4JAugust: +1.1°F+1.1ASeptember: -0.7°F-0.7SOctober: +1.5°F+1.5ONovember: +3.4°F+3.4NDecember: +2.8°F+2.8D

March has warmed the most — about 5.6°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 15 years of daily observations at Bikaner, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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