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Has the climate in Niğde changed?

Niğde has warmed about 6°F since 2002.

About 2.6°F per decade, measured from Niğde's official daily weather records, 2002–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Niğde'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
1 fewer night
1970s
79 / yr
Recent
78 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+4.5°F
1970s
53.8°F
Recent
58.3°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
12 more days
1970s
17 / yr
Recent
29 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
13 more days
1970s
64 / yr
Recent
77 / yr
Wetter on average

Niğde's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2002 to 2025.

50°52°54°56°58°60°62°2002: 51.7°F2003: 52.6°F2004: 52.8°F2006: 54.1°F2007: 54.1°F2008: 54.2°F2009: 57.3°F2010: 60.7°F2011: 54.5°F2012: 55.7°F2013: 54.3°F2014: 56.7°F2015: 55.3°F2016: 55.9°F2017: 57.9°F2018: 59.7°F2019: 58.1°F2020: 59.8°F2021: 59.8°F2022: 57.4°F2023: 58.4°F2024: 59.2°F2025: 55.3°Flong-term trend2002201020202025
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 Nigde, a weather station, inside the city. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →