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Has the climate in La Foa changed?

How La Foa's climate has changed

About 0.1°F per decade, measured from La Foa's official daily weather records, 1991–2015. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? La Foa's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities across Oceania.

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
73.8°F
Recent
73.8°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved

La Foa's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2015.

71°73°75°77°1991: 73.2°F1992: 73.4°F1993: 72.8°F1994: 72.4°F1995: 74.5°F1996: 74.7°F1997: 73.4°F1998: 75.7°F1999: 74.2°F2000: 73.4°F2001: 74.1°F2002: 74.0°F2003: 73.7°F2004: 73.7°F2005: 73.6°F2006: 73.1°F2007: 74.3°F2008: 74.3°F2009: 73.8°F2010: 74.7°F2011: 74.2°F2012: 73.6°F2013: 73.3°F2014: 73.4°F2015: 73.1°Flong-term trend1991200020102015
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 25 years of daily observations at Noumea, a weather station, about 89 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →