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Has the climate in Kraków changed?

Kraków has warmed about 3.3°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 1.0°F per decade, measured from Kraków'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? Kraków's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Poland — 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
+2.3°F
1970s
47.6°F
Recent
49.9°F
A steady upward drift

Kraków's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

43°45°47°49°51°53°1991: 46.4°F1992: 48.1°F1993: 46.8°F1994: 48.9°F1996: 44.2°F1997: 46.5°F1999: 48.6°F2000: 49.9°F2001: 47.6°F2002: 49.0°F2003: 47.6°F2004: 47.8°F2005: 47.1°F2006: 47.2°F2007: 48.9°F2008: 49.1°F2009: 47.7°F2010: 45.8°F2011: 48.0°F2012: 47.6°F2013: 47.6°F2014: 49.6°F2015: 50.0°F2016: 49.0°F2017: 48.5°F2018: 50.2°F2019: 50.7°F2020: 49.8°F2021: 48.2°F2022: 49.7°F2023: 50.8°F2024: 52.2°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 30 years of daily observations at Balice, a weather station, about 11 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →