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Has the climate in Thakhèk changed?

Thakhèk has warmed about 2°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Thakhèk'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? Thakhèk's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Laos — 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
79.3°F
Recent
80.7°F
A steady upward drift

Thakhèk's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

76°78°80°82°1991: 79.6°F1992: 78.8°F1993: 78.4°F1994: 79.1°F1995: 79.4°F1996: 78.7°F1997: 79.0°F1998: 81.0°F1999: 79.2°F2000: 79.2°F2001: 79.9°F2002: 79.6°F2003: 79.9°F2004: 78.8°F2005: 80.1°F2006: 79.9°F2007: 79.5°F2008: 78.0°F2009: 79.8°F2010: 80.6°F2011: 78.2°F2012: 80.3°F2013: 79.5°F2014: 80.0°F2015: 81.2°F2016: 80.7°F2017: 79.7°F2018: 80.0°F2019: 81.6°F2020: 81.1°F2021: 80.3°F2022: 79.7°F2023: 81.2°F2024: 81.8°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 Nakhon Phanom, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →