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Has the climate in Umeå changed?

Umeå has warmed about 2°F since 2006.

About 1.0°F per decade, measured from Umeå's official daily weather records, 2006–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Umeå's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Sweden.

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
2 fewer nights
1970s
152 / yr
Recent
150 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.7°F
1970s
40.2°F
Recent
41.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
158 / yr
Recent
156 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Umeå's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2006 to 2025.

35°37°39°41°43°45°2006: 41.3°F2007: 41.0°F2008: 41.6°F2009: 39.8°F2010: 36.5°F2011: 40.8°F2012: 39.8°F2013: 39.1°F2014: 42.6°F2015: 43.0°F2016: 40.8°F2017: 40.9°F2018: 41.1°F2019: 40.3°F2020: 43.7°F2021: 40.4°F2022: 42.0°F2023: 40.5°F2024: 41.2°F2025: 43.5°Flong-term trend2006201020202025
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 16 years of daily observations at Holmon A, a weather station, about 30 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →