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Has the climate in Sambava changed?

Sambava has warmed about 0.7°F between 1989 and 2020.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Sambava's official daily weather records, 1989–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Sambava's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Madagascar.

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
+0.9°F
1970s
77.5°F
Recent
78.3°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
71 more days
1970s
19 / yr
Recent
90 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
14 fewer days
1970s
177 / yr
Recent
163 / yr
Drier on average

Sambava's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1989 to 2020.

76°78°80°1989: 77.1°F1994: 77.9°F2001: 77.7°F2004: 77.1°F2005: 77.5°F2006: 77.6°F2007: 77.8°F2010: 78.3°F2011: 78.2°F2012: 77.8°F2013: 78.1°F2014: 78.3°F2015: 78.7°F2016: 77.5°F2017: 78.8°F2018: 78.2°F2019: 78.8°F2020: 78.0°Flong-term trend198920102020
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 33 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.

-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°February: +0.5°F+0.5FMarch: +0.5°F+0.5MApril: +0.3°F+0.3AJune: -0.1°F-0.1JJuly: -0.5°F-0.5JAugust: +0.2°F+0.2ASeptember: +0.4°F+0.4SOctober: +0.7°F+0.7ONovember: +0.6°F+0.6NDecember: +1.7°F+1.7D

December has warmed the most — about 1.7°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 21 years of daily observations at Sambava, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →