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Has the climate in Ambatondrazaka changed?

Ambatondrazaka has warmed about 1.5°F between 1978 and 2024.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Ambatondrazaka's official daily weather records, 1978–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Ambatondrazaka's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Madagascar — 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
+1.3°F
1970s
74.9°F
Recent
76.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
33 more days
1970s
7 / yr
Recent
40 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
11 more days
1970s
191 / yr
Recent
202 / yr
Wetter on average

Ambatondrazaka's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1978 to 2024.

72°74°76°78°1978: 75.5°F1979: 75.2°F1980: 74.6°F1982: 74.9°F1983: 75.3°F1984: 73.9°F1985: 74.6°F1986: 74.4°F1987: 75.3°F1988: 74.8°F1989: 74.5°F1993: 74.5°F1994: 75.6°F1995: 75.3°F1996: 75.4°F1997: 76.6°F1998: 76.1°F1999: 75.2°F2000: 74.7°F2001: 75.4°F2002: 75.7°F2003: 75.7°F2004: 75.4°F2005: 75.7°F2006: 75.8°F2007: 75.5°F2008: 75.6°F2009: 76.2°F2010: 76.6°F2011: 76.9°F2012: 76.0°F2014: 76.3°F2015: 76.3°F2016: 76.0°F2017: 76.9°F2018: 76.0°F2019: 76.7°F2020: 75.7°F2021: 75.8°F2022: 75.1°F2023: 76.4°F2024: 76.0°Flong-term trend197819802000201020202024
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 16 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°January: +0.7°F+0.7JFebruary: +0.8°F+0.8FMarch: +0.8°F+0.8MApril: +1.1°F+1.1AMay: +0.8°F+0.8MJune: +0.8°F+0.8JJuly: +1.4°F+1.4JAugust: +1.4°F+1.4ASeptember: +0.8°F+0.8SOctober: +0.8°F+0.8ONovember: +0.9°F+0.9NDecember: +1.2°F+1.2D

August has warmed the most — about 1.4°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 26 years of daily observations at Toamasina, a weather station, about 109 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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