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Has the climate in Aţ Ţafīlah changed?

Aţ Ţafīlah has warmed about 2.2°F between 1995 and 2020.

About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Aţ Ţafīlah's official daily weather records, 1995–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Aţ Ţafīlah's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Jordan.

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.

Average temperature
+1.3°F
1970s
64.7°F
Recent
66.0°F
A steady upward drift

Aţ Ţafīlah's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1995 to 2020.

61°63°65°67°69°71°1995: 63.5°F1996: 65.0°F1997: 62.7°F1998: 65.8°F1999: 65.3°F2000: 65.0°F2001: 65.3°F2002: 64.6°F2003: 64.2°F2004: 64.9°F2005: 64.9°F2006: 63.9°F2007: 64.6°F2008: 65.1°F2009: 64.8°F2010: 69.0°F2013: 64.0°F2014: 65.8°F2015: 65.9°F2016: 66.1°F2017: 66.2°F2018: 67.2°F2019: 66.1°F2020: 66.5°Flong-term trend1995200020102020
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.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at Ma'an, a weather station, about 77 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →