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Has the climate in Kaffrine changed?

Kaffrine has warmed about 1.2°F between 1975 and 2024.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Kaffrine's official daily weather records, 1975–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Kaffrine's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Senegal — 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
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+0.9°F
1970s
83.4°F
Recent
84.3°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
60 fewer days
1970s
299 / yr
Recent
239 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
8 more days
1970s
35 / yr
Recent
43 / yr
Wetter on average

Kaffrine's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1975 to 2024.

81°83°85°87°1975: 82.2°F1976: 82.3°F1977: 84.0°F1978: 83.0°F1979: 83.8°F1980: 83.2°F1981: 83.7°F1982: 83.0°F1983: 84.8°F1984: 83.3°F1986: 82.9°F1987: 84.4°F1988: 83.6°F1989: 83.0°F1990: 83.6°F1991: 83.2°F1992: 83.5°F1993: 83.7°F1994: 83.8°F1995: 83.9°F1996: 84.6°F1997: 84.7°F1998: 84.9°F1999: 82.7°F2000: 84.0°F2003: 83.2°F2004: 83.5°F2005: 84.0°F2006: 83.9°F2009: 82.9°F2010: 84.2°F2011: 83.0°F2012: 83.3°F2013: 83.2°F2014: 84.0°F2015: 83.6°F2016: 84.6°F2017: 84.7°F2018: 84.2°F2019: 84.3°F2020: 85.4°F2021: 85.4°F2022: 84.4°F2023: 85.2°F2024: 84.5°Flong-term trend1975198019902000201020202024
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 13 fewer 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +1.1°F+1.1JFebruary: -0.2°F-0.2FMarch: +1.3°F+1.3MApril: +0.9°F+0.9AMay: +0.8°F+0.8MJune: +0.8°F+0.8JJuly: +0.4°F+0.4JAugust: +0.5°F+0.5ASeptember: +0.5°F+0.5SOctober: +1.0°F+1.0ONovember: +1.7°F+1.7NDecember: +0.9°F+0.9D

November has warmed the most — about 1.7°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 21 years of daily observations at Kaolack, a weather station, about 54 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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