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Has the climate in Maputo changed?

How Maputo's climate has changed

About 0.0°F per decade, measured from Maputo'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? Maputo's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Mozambique — 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
about the same
1970s
74.3°F
Recent
74.5°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved

Maputo's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

71°73°75°77°1991: 73.6°F1992: 75.4°F1993: 73.9°F1994: 72.9°F1995: 74.4°F1996: 74.1°F1997: 74.0°F1998: 75.2°F1999: 74.9°F2000: 74.2°F2001: 74.7°F2002: 74.8°F2003: 75.2°F2004: 74.7°F2005: 74.5°F2006: 74.0°F2007: 75.0°F2008: 74.7°F2009: 74.5°F2010: 75.1°F2012: 73.5°F2013: 74.0°F2014: 74.7°F2015: 75.1°F2016: 74.8°F2017: 74.4°F2018: 74.9°F2019: 75.3°F2020: 74.0°F2021: 73.5°F2022: 74.1°F2023: 74.1°F2024: 74.4°Flong-term trend19912000201020202024
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 28 years of daily observations at Maputo, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →