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Has the climate in Kitale changed?

Kitale has warmed about 1.9°F between 1976 and 2024.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Kitale's official daily weather records, 1976–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Kitale's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Kenya — 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
+1.4°F
1970s
64.7°F
Recent
66.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
2 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
7 fewer days
1970s
135 / yr
Recent
128 / yr
Drier on average

Kitale's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1976 to 2024.

62°64°66°68°1976: 64.0°F1977: 63.7°F1978: 63.6°F1979: 64.5°F1980: 65.5°F1981: 64.3°F1983: 64.6°F1984: 64.8°F1985: 65.2°F1986: 66.0°F1987: 67.1°F1988: 65.1°F1989: 63.9°F1990: 64.0°F1991: 64.3°F1992: 64.4°F1993: 64.8°F1994: 64.7°F1995: 65.0°F1996: 65.0°F1997: 65.6°F1998: 65.8°F1999: 65.8°F2000: 65.4°F2001: 64.5°F2002: 65.7°F2003: 66.0°F2004: 67.0°F2005: 67.3°F2011: 65.5°F2012: 65.3°F2013: 65.2°F2014: 65.7°F2015: 66.5°F2017: 66.0°F2018: 65.3°F2019: 66.7°F2020: 65.5°F2021: 66.0°F2022: 66.2°F2023: 67.1°F2024: 67.3°Flong-term trend197619801990200020202024
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.

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.

-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°January: +0.9°F+0.9JFebruary: +1.0°F+1.0FMarch: +0.8°F+0.8MApril: +0.9°F+0.9AMay: +0.7°F+0.7MJune: +0.9°F+0.9JJuly: -1.8°F-1.8JAugust: +1.1°F+1.1ASeptember: +0.9°F+0.9SOctober: +0.8°F+0.8ONovember: +1.0°F+1.0NDecember: +0.8°F+0.8D

July has cooled the most — about 1.8°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 19 years of daily observations at Kitale, a weather station, inside the city. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →