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Has the climate in Khamis Mushait changed?

Khamis Mushait has warmed about 2.4°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Khamis Mushait'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? Khamis Mushait'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.

Average temperature
+1.7°F
1970s
67.4°F
Recent
69.2°F
A steady upward drift

Khamis Mushait's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

64°66°68°70°72°1991: 67.6°F1992: 65.6°F1993: 66.8°F1994: 67.4°F1995: 67.4°F1996: 67.4°F1997: 67.0°F1998: 67.8°F1999: 68.1°F2000: 68.6°F2001: 68.0°F2002: 68.7°F2003: 69.0°F2004: 68.5°F2005: 68.5°F2006: 68.2°F2007: 67.9°F2008: 68.3°F2009: 68.9°F2010: 68.4°F2011: 68.1°F2012: 68.5°F2013: 68.4°F2014: 68.5°F2015: 69.1°F2016: 68.2°F2017: 70.2°F2018: 69.5°F2019: 70.1°F2020: 68.9°F2021: 69.4°F2022: 69.2°F2023: 68.5°F2024: 69.1°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 King Khaled AB, a weather station, about 7 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →