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Has the climate in Niš changed?

Niš has warmed about 4.1°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Niš's official daily weather records, 1971–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Niš's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Serbia — 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
36 fewer nights
1970s
86 / yr
Recent
50 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.9°F
1970s
52.3°F
Recent
55.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
24 more days
1970s
16 / yr
Recent
40 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
125 / yr
Recent
123 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Niš's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

49°51°53°55°57°59°1971: 53.1°F1972: 53.8°F1973: 51.6°F1974: 52.6°F1975: 52.8°F1976: 50.9°F1977: 53.3°F1978: 51.5°F1979: 52.8°F1980: 50.6°F1981: 52.3°F1982: 52.8°F1983: 52.7°F1984: 52.1°F1985: 51.4°F1986: 52.4°F1987: 52.6°F1988: 52.5°F1989: 52.4°F1990: 53.9°F1991: 51.2°F1992: 53.3°F1993: 52.9°F1994: 55.4°F1995: 52.9°F1996: 52.1°F1997: 51.7°F1998: 53.3°F1999: 54.0°F2000: 55.4°F2001: 53.9°F2002: 54.4°F2003: 53.8°F2004: 53.0°F2005: 53.2°F2006: 52.6°F2007: 55.5°F2008: 54.6°F2009: 54.4°F2010: 54.4°F2011: 53.4°F2012: 54.9°F2013: 55.6°F2014: 55.4°F2015: 55.2°F2016: 54.3°F2017: 54.6°F2018: 55.5°F2019: 56.2°F2020: 54.8°F2021: 54.6°F2022: 55.5°F2023: 56.4°F2024: 57.9°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202024
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 14 fewer freezing nights a year and about 13 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: +0.8°F+0.8JFebruary: +0.8°F+0.8FMarch: +1.2°F+1.2MApril: +1.3°F+1.3AMay: +1.1°F+1.1MJune: +2.2°F+2.2JJuly: +3.0°F+3.0JAugust: +2.8°F+2.8ASeptember: +1.4°F+1.4SOctober: +1.2°F+1.2ONovember: +2.7°F+2.7NDecember: +0.4°F+0.4D

July has warmed the most — about 3.0°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at Nis, a weather station, inside the city. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →