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Has the climate in Dalandzadgad changed?

Dalandzadgad has warmed about 3.9°F since 1971.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Dalandzadgad's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Dalandzadgad's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Mongolia — 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
62 fewer nights
1970s
191 / yr
Recent
129 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.7°F
1970s
40.1°F
Recent
42.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
7 more days
1970s
7 / yr
Recent
14 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
5 fewer days
1970s
23 / yr
Recent
18 / yr
Drier on average

Dalandzadgad's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

37°39°41°43°45°1971: 39.6°F1972: 41.1°F1973: 40.8°F1974: 39.0°F1975: 40.7°F1976: 39.3°F1977: 39.3°F1978: 41.6°F1979: 41.4°F1980: 39.6°F1981: 39.3°F1982: 41.9°F1983: 40.2°F1984: 38.1°F1985: 39.0°F1986: 39.7°F1987: 41.4°F1988: 40.2°F1989: 42.0°F1990: 41.6°F1991: 41.4°F1992: 40.8°F1993: 39.9°F1994: 42.0°F1995: 41.4°F1996: 40.2°F1997: 42.8°F1998: 43.7°F1999: 43.8°F2000: 41.7°F2001: 43.2°F2002: 43.5°F2003: 40.7°F2004: 42.7°F2005: 41.3°F2006: 43.2°F2007: 43.8°F2008: 42.6°F2009: 43.5°F2010: 41.9°F2011: 40.7°F2012: 40.1°F2013: 43.9°F2014: 43.6°F2015: 43.1°F2016: 42.8°F2017: 44.3°F2018: 42.2°F2019: 42.8°F2020: 42.4°F2021: 43.7°F2022: 42.6°F2023: 43.8°F2024: 43.6°F2025: 43.2°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
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 42 fewer freezing nights a year and about 6 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: +0.3°F+0.3JFebruary: +1.1°F+1.1FMarch: +2.7°F+2.7MApril: +1.5°F+1.5AMay: -0.1°F-0.1MJune: +0.9°F+0.9JJuly: +2.3°F+2.3JAugust: +1.6°F+1.6ASeptember: +1.2°F+1.2SOctober: +1.1°F+1.1ONovember: +1.1°F+1.1NDecember: -0.3°F-0.3D

March 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 29 years of daily observations at Dalanzadgad, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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