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Has the climate in Benghazi changed?

Benghazi has warmed about 2.1°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Benghazi'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? Benghazi's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Libya — 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
+2.0°F
1970s
68.1°F
Recent
70.0°F
A steady upward drift

Benghazi's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

66°68°70°72°1991: 67.4°F1992: 67.2°F1993: 68.4°F1994: 68.3°F1995: 68.7°F1996: 68.0°F1997: 67.9°F1998: 68.7°F1999: 69.8°F2000: 68.5°F2001: 69.4°F2002: 68.9°F2003: 69.2°F2004: 69.9°F2005: 68.2°F2006: 67.5°F2007: 68.3°F2008: 68.9°F2009: 68.4°F2010: 69.9°F2012: 70.7°F2013: 69.2°F2021: 71.0°F2022: 69.3°F2023: 69.9°F2024: 71.8°Flong-term trend1991200020102024
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 24 years of daily observations at Benina Airport, a weather station, about 19 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →