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Has the climate in Patna changed?

Patna has warmed about 1.2°F between 1973 and 2024.

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from Patna's official daily weather records, 1973–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Patna'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
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.0°F
1970s
77.7°F
Recent
78.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
63 fewer days
1970s
145 / yr
Recent
82 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
6 fewer days
1970s
57 / yr
Recent
51 / yr
Drier on average

Patna's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2024.

73°75°77°79°81°83°1973: 78.5°F1976: 77.8°F1977: 78.1°F1978: 77.4°F1979: 79.1°F1980: 78.3°F1981: 77.4°F1982: 77.8°F1983: 76.9°F1984: 76.8°F1985: 78.1°F1986: 77.4°F1987: 78.3°F1988: 78.4°F1989: 76.4°F1990: 76.7°F1991: 77.1°F1992: 77.7°F1993: 77.4°F1994: 77.6°F1995: 78.1°F1996: 78.7°F1997: 78.8°F1998: 79.6°F1999: 78.4°F2000: 78.0°F2001: 79.2°F2002: 79.4°F2003: 78.8°F2004: 78.6°F2005: 79.6°F2006: 79.0°F2007: 77.6°F2008: 78.6°F2009: 79.9°F2010: 79.8°F2011: 78.5°F2012: 79.2°F2013: 78.3°F2014: 78.4°F2015: 79.7°F2016: 79.7°F2017: 79.1°F2018: 78.0°F2019: 78.1°F2020: 75.3°F2021: 74.1°F2022: 78.1°F2023: 81.2°F2024: 81.2°Flong-term trend1973198019902000201020202024
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 10 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.

-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°January: -1.1°F-1.1JFebruary: +1.0°F+1.0FMarch: +0.9°F+0.9MApril: +0.1°F+0.1AMay: +0.4°F+0.4MJune: +0.2°F+0.2JJuly: +0.9°F+0.9JAugust: +0.7°F+0.7ASeptember: +0.8°F+0.8SOctober: +0.7°F+0.7ONovember: +0.4°F+0.4NDecember: -0.3°F-0.3D

January has cooled the most — about 1.1°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 Patna, a weather station, about 4 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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