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Has the climate in Man’gyŏngdae-ri changed?

Man’gyŏngdae-ri has warmed about 2.4°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Man’gyŏngdae-ri'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? Man’gyŏngdae-ri's warming is broadly in line with other cities in North Korea — 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
+1.7°F
1970s
51.5°F
Recent
53.1°F
A steady upward drift

Man’gyŏngdae-ri's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

48°50°52°54°56°1991: 50.8°F1992: 50.9°F1993: 50.3°F1994: 52.7°F1995: 51.1°F1996: 50.8°F1997: 51.6°F1998: 53.4°F1999: 52.5°F2000: 51.1°F2001: 51.1°F2002: 51.4°F2003: 52.0°F2004: 52.7°F2005: 50.0°F2006: 51.7°F2007: 55.8°F2008: 52.4°F2009: 52.0°F2010: 51.1°F2011: 51.2°F2012: 50.7°F2013: 51.5°F2014: 53.2°F2015: 53.0°F2016: 53.0°F2017: 52.2°F2018: 52.0°F2019: 53.5°F2020: 52.8°F2021: 53.4°F2022: 51.9°F2023: 54.1°F2024: 55.5°Flong-term trend19912000201020202024
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 30 years of daily observations at Pyongyang Intl, a weather station, about 26 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →