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Has the climate in Ha'il changed?

Ha'il has warmed about 3.4°F between 1973 and 2024.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Ha'il's official daily weather records, 1973–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Ha'il's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Saudi Arabia — 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
8 fewer nights
1970s
14 / yr
Recent
6 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.7°F
1970s
72.2°F
Recent
74.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
44 fewer days
1970s
153 / yr
Recent
109 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
4 more days
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
4 / yr
Wetter on average

Ha'il's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2024.

68°70°72°74°76°78°1973: 75.9°F1978: 74.7°F1979: 75.2°F1980: 73.9°F1981: 74.0°F1982: 70.8°F1983: 71.0°F1984: 69.1°F1985: 69.6°F1986: 70.5°F1987: 73.3°F1988: 72.7°F1989: 71.0°F1990: 72.5°F1991: 72.3°F1992: 69.4°F1993: 71.5°F1994: 71.6°F1995: 72.6°F1996: 73.5°F1997: 71.5°F1998: 74.0°F1999: 74.5°F2000: 73.4°F2001: 74.3°F2002: 73.6°F2003: 73.9°F2004: 73.2°F2005: 73.2°F2006: 73.6°F2007: 73.7°F2008: 73.1°F2009: 73.7°F2010: 75.9°F2011: 73.4°F2012: 74.4°F2013: 73.6°F2014: 74.3°F2015: 75.1°F2016: 74.8°F2017: 75.6°F2018: 75.4°F2019: 74.9°F2020: 74.1°F2021: 76.7°F2022: 75.5°F2023: 75.4°F2024: 75.9°Flong-term trend1973198019902000201020202024
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 6 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: +0.7°F+0.7JFebruary: +2.4°F+2.4FMarch: +2.3°F+2.3MApril: +1.0°F+1.0AMay: +1.8°F+1.8MJune: +2.1°F+2.1JJuly: +2.1°F+2.1JAugust: +3.0°F+3.0ASeptember: +2.3°F+2.3SOctober: +1.9°F+1.9ONovember: +1.0°F+1.0NDecember: +1.2°F+1.2D

August 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 Hail, a weather station, about 10 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →