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Has the climate in Zuwarah changed?

Zuwarah has warmed about 2.8°F between 1973 and 2023.

About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Zuwarah's official daily weather records, 1973–2023. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Zuwarah'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.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+2.7°F
1970s
67.7°F
Recent
70.3°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
17 more days
1970s
21 / yr
Recent
38 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
4 more days
1970s
13 / yr
Recent
17 / yr
Wetter on average

Zuwarah's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2023.

65°67°69°71°1973: 67.0°F1974: 67.1°F1980: 67.2°F1981: 68.1°F1982: 68.3°F1983: 67.0°F1984: 67.4°F1985: 67.9°F1986: 67.3°F1987: 68.2°F1988: 68.7°F1989: 69.2°F1990: 69.8°F1991: 67.7°F1992: 68.3°F1993: 68.6°F1994: 69.0°F1995: 69.0°F1996: 69.7°F1997: 69.4°F1998: 69.3°F1999: 70.6°F2000: 69.6°F2001: 70.7°F2005: 70.0°F2006: 70.5°F2007: 70.0°F2008: 70.1°F2009: 70.1°F2010: 70.7°F2021: 70.5°F2022: 71.0°F2023: 70.6°Flong-term trend197319801990200020102023
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.

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.

-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: +0.0°F+0.0JFebruary: +1.1°F+1.1FMarch: +1.8°F+1.8MApril: +0.8°F+0.8AMay: +1.4°F+1.4MJune: +1.4°F+1.4JJuly: +2.1°F+2.1JAugust: +1.6°F+1.6ASeptember: +1.7°F+1.7SOctober: -0.8°F-0.8ONovember: +0.8°F+0.8NDecember: +1.4°F+1.4D

July has warmed the most — about 2.1°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 18 years of daily observations at Zuara, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →