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Has the climate in Kırıkkale changed?

Kırıkkale has warmed about 5°F since 1999.

About 1.9°F per decade, measured from Kırıkkale's official daily weather records, 1999–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

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

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
6 fewer nights
1970s
80 / yr
Recent
74 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+4.3°F
1970s
53.2°F
Recent
57.5°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 fewer day
1970s
22 / yr
Recent
21 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
23 more days
1970s
54 / yr
Recent
77 / yr
Wetter on average

Kırıkkale's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1999 to 2025.

50°52°54°56°58°60°62°1999: 53.1°F2000: 51.1°F2001: 55.2°F2002: 51.8°F2003: 53.5°F2004: 52.8°F2005: 53.4°F2006: 53.1°F2007: 55.0°F2008: 57.5°F2009: 57.2°F2010: 60.3°F2011: 54.1°F2012: 54.8°F2013: 53.6°F2014: 56.2°F2015: 55.0°F2016: 55.5°F2017: 58.1°F2018: 60.5°F2019: 58.6°F2020: 59.7°F2021: 56.4°F2022: 56.5°F2023: 55.6°F2024: 57.4°F2025: 54.9°Flong-term trend19992000201020202025
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 10 more freezing nights a year and about 19 more 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.

-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: +0.5°F+0.5JFebruary: +2.7°F+2.7FMarch: -0.6°F-0.6MApril: -0.4°F-0.4AMay: +2.3°F+2.3MJune: -0.7°F-0.7JJuly: +0.0°F+0.0JAugust: +1.2°F+1.2ASeptember: +0.0°F+0.0SOctober: -0.7°F-0.7ONovember: -0.7°F-0.7NDecember: +0.2°F+0.2D

February has warmed the most — about 2.7°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 16 years of daily observations at Kirsehir, a weather station, about 96 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →