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Has the climate in Pohang changed?

Pohang has warmed about 2.3°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Pohang'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? Pohang's warming is broadly in line with other cities in South 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
+1.4°F
1970s
58.1°F
Recent
59.5°F
A steady upward drift

Pohang's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

55°57°59°61°63°1991: 57.2°F1992: 58.1°F1993: 56.1°F1994: 59.8°F1995: 57.6°F1996: 56.9°F1997: 58.4°F1998: 59.4°F1999: 58.1°F2000: 58.2°F2001: 59.0°F2002: 57.7°F2003: 57.2°F2004: 59.3°F2005: 57.4°F2006: 58.0°F2007: 58.5°F2008: 57.4°F2009: 58.7°F2010: 58.4°F2011: 57.8°F2012: 57.5°F2013: 58.9°F2014: 58.3°F2015: 58.8°F2016: 59.4°F2017: 59.1°F2018: 58.8°F2019: 60.0°F2020: 59.2°F2021: 59.4°F2022: 59.3°F2023: 60.4°F2024: 61.3°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 Pohang, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →