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Has the climate in Quthing changed?

Quthing has warmed about 1.8°F between 2005 and 2024.

About 1.1°F per decade, measured from Quthing's official daily weather records, 2005–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Quthing's climate has warmed faster than most other cities across Africa.

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
76 more nights
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
76 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
+1.2°F
1970s
57.9°F
Recent
59.0°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
20 more days
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
20 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
64 / yr
Recent
62 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Quthing's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2005 to 2024.

56°58°60°62°2005: 58.3°F2009: 57.9°F2010: 57.7°F2011: 57.2°F2012: 58.2°F2013: 57.6°F2014: 58.1°F2015: 59.9°F2016: 59.5°F2017: 58.7°F2018: 58.9°F2019: 60.1°F2020: 58.2°F2021: 57.9°F2022: 58.9°F2023: 59.9°F2024: 60.3°Flong-term trend2005201020202024
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.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 46 more freezing nights a year and about 9 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

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.

-2.5°-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: +0.5°F+0.5JFebruary: +0.6°F+0.6FMarch: -1.4°F-1.4MApril: -2.3°F-2.3AMay: +1.9°F+1.9MJune: +0.1°F+0.1JJuly: +2.7°F+2.7JAugust: +1.6°F+1.6ASeptember: -0.7°F-0.7SOctober: +0.8°F+0.8ONovember: +1.2°F+1.2NDecember: +1.0°F+1.0D

July has warmed the most — about 2.7°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 Ficksburg, a weather station, about 177 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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