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Has the climate in Saransk changed?

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

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Saransk'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? Saransk's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Russia — 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
21 fewer nights
1970s
167 / yr
Recent
146 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+3.1°F
1970s
40.4°F
Recent
43.5°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
6 more days
1970s
6 / yr
Recent
12 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
5 fewer days
1970s
143 / yr
Recent
138 / yr
Drier on average

Saransk's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

34°36°38°40°42°44°46°1971: 41.5°F1972: 41.6°F1973: 40.3°F1974: 41.9°F1975: 43.4°F1976: 35.4°F1977: 39.9°F1978: 39.0°F1979: 40.6°F1980: 39.0°F1981: 43.5°F1982: 41.0°F1983: 42.8°F1984: 40.5°F1985: 39.4°F1986: 40.1°F1987: 37.3°F1988: 41.3°F1989: 43.8°F1990: 42.6°F1991: 42.8°F1992: 41.9°F1993: 39.4°F1994: 39.5°F1995: 44.7°F1996: 40.4°F1997: 40.7°F1998: 41.2°F1999: 42.9°F2000: 42.9°F2001: 43.0°F2002: 42.0°F2003: 41.1°F2004: 43.1°F2005: 43.2°F2006: 41.5°F2007: 43.8°F2008: 44.6°F2009: 43.4°F2010: 44.6°F2011: 41.2°F2012: 43.5°F2013: 44.3°F2014: 42.6°F2015: 44.4°F2016: 44.1°F2017: 43.3°F2018: 42.2°F2019: 41.9°F2020: 43.8°F2023: 45.2°F2024: 45.2°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 9 fewer freezing nights a year and about 4 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: +2.4°F+2.4JFebruary: +2.5°F+2.5FMarch: +2.2°F+2.2MApril: +0.7°F+0.7AMay: +1.4°F+1.4MJune: +0.2°F+0.2JJuly: +1.6°F+1.6JAugust: +2.2°F+2.2ASeptember: +1.8°F+1.8SOctober: +2.3°F+2.3ONovember: +2.0°F+2.0NDecember: +1.0°F+1.0D

February has warmed the most — about 2.5°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Penza, a weather station, about 118 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →