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Has the climate in Kigoma changed?
Kigoma has cooled about 0.9°F between 2005 and 2024.
About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Kigoma's official daily weather records, 2005–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.
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.
Kigoma's temperature, year by year
Average temperature for each year from 2005 to 2024.
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 — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.