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Has the climate in Sukhothai changed?

Sukhothai has warmed about 2.5°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Sukhothai's official daily weather records, 1971–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Sukhothai's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Thailand — 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
+1.7°F
1970s
82.0°F
Recent
83.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
37 fewer days
1970s
260 / yr
Recent
223 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
9 more days
1970s
114 / yr
Recent
123 / yr
Wetter on average

Sukhothai's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

80°82°84°86°1971: 81.3°F1972: 83.1°F1973: 81.1°F1974: 81.1°F1975: 81.8°F1976: 81.8°F1977: 82.5°F1978: 82.4°F1979: 82.6°F1980: 82.6°F1981: 81.4°F1982: 81.6°F1983: 82.1°F1984: 81.6°F1985: 82.2°F1986: 81.7°F1987: 82.8°F1988: 82.2°F1989: 82.1°F1990: 82.5°F1991: 83.1°F1992: 81.7°F1993: 82.3°F1994: 82.1°F1995: 82.3°F1996: 81.6°F1997: 82.8°F1998: 83.8°F1999: 81.4°F2000: 81.8°F2001: 82.2°F2002: 82.6°F2003: 82.3°F2004: 82.1°F2005: 83.3°F2006: 83.4°F2007: 83.2°F2008: 82.5°F2009: 83.1°F2010: 84.7°F2011: 82.1°F2012: 84.2°F2013: 83.4°F2014: 83.4°F2015: 84.3°F2016: 84.5°F2017: 83.7°F2018: 83.5°F2019: 84.6°F2020: 84.6°F2021: 83.5°F2022: 83.2°F2023: 84.1°F2024: 84.0°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202024
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 17 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°January: -0.2°F-0.2JFebruary: -0.2°F-0.2FMarch: -0.2°F-0.2MApril: -0.3°F-0.3AMay: +0.1°F+0.1MJune: -0.0°F-0.0JJuly: +0.0°F+0.0JAugust: -0.1°F-0.1ASeptember: -0.0°F-0.0SOctober: +0.2°F+0.2ONovember: +1.0°F+1.0NDecember: +0.4°F+0.4D

November has warmed the most — about 1.0°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 Phitsanulok/sarit, a weather station, about 52 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →