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Has the climate in Gävle changed?

Gävle has warmed about 1.9°F between 1997 and 2022.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Gävle's official daily weather records, 1997–2022. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Gävle's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Sweden — 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
+1.4°F
1970s
42.4°F
Recent
43.8°F
A steady upward drift

Gävle's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1997 to 2022.

37°39°41°43°45°47°1997: 42.5°F1998: 41.0°F1999: 42.5°F2000: 43.8°F2001: 41.8°F2002: 42.6°F2003: 42.4°F2004: 42.2°F2005: 43.1°F2006: 43.9°F2007: 43.2°F2008: 43.7°F2009: 42.3°F2010: 38.9°F2011: 43.7°F2012: 41.7°F2013: 42.5°F2014: 44.4°F2015: 44.2°F2016: 43.2°F2017: 42.9°F2018: 42.8°F2019: 43.3°F2020: 46.3°F2021: 43.3°F2022: 44.4°Flong-term trend19972000201020202022
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 25 years of daily observations at Gavle/sandviken Air Force Base, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →