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Has the climate in Mwatate changed?

Mwatate has warmed about 1.6°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Mwatate's official daily weather records, 1991–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Mwatate'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.

Average temperature
+1.3°F
1970s
76.3°F
Recent
77.5°F
A steady upward drift

Mwatate's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

74°76°78°80°1991: 75.8°F1992: 76.0°F1993: 76.0°F1994: 76.1°F1995: 75.7°F1996: 75.8°F1997: 76.1°F1998: 76.2°F1999: 76.7°F2001: 78.1°F2002: 78.1°F2003: 79.4°F2004: 77.2°F2005: 78.0°F2006: 77.3°F2007: 77.7°F2009: 77.3°F2010: 77.4°F2011: 77.9°F2012: 77.8°F2013: 77.0°F2014: 76.9°F2015: 77.9°F2016: 77.5°F2017: 77.6°F2018: 76.6°F2019: 77.6°F2020: 77.3°F2021: 77.3°F2022: 77.3°F2023: 77.8°F2024: 78.4°Flong-term trend1991201020202024
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 29 years of daily observations at Voi, a weather station, about 24 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →