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Has the climate in Sumy changed?

Sumy has warmed about 5.3°F since 1971.

About 1.0°F per decade, measured from Sumy's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Sumy's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Ukraine — 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
2 fewer nights
1970s
94 / yr
Recent
92 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+3.8°F
1970s
43.4°F
Recent
47.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
8 more days
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
10 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
71 fewer days
1970s
143 / yr
Recent
72 / yr
Drier on average

Sumy's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

38°40°42°44°46°48°50°52°1971: 40.0°F1973: 43.6°F1974: 45.0°F1975: 47.2°F1976: 40.9°F1977: 43.6°F1978: 42.4°F1979: 44.2°F1980: 41.7°F1981: 46.3°F1982: 44.6°F1983: 46.2°F1984: 44.1°F1985: 41.5°F1986: 44.1°F1987: 39.6°F1988: 43.4°F1989: 47.3°F1990: 46.4°F1991: 44.9°F1992: 44.9°F1993: 42.4°F1994: 44.1°F1995: 45.7°F1996: 43.2°F1997: 43.3°F1998: 44.3°F1999: 47.0°F2000: 46.5°F2001: 45.6°F2002: 48.1°F2003: 43.9°F2004: 45.0°F2005: 42.5°F2006: 43.1°F2007: 44.0°F2009: 45.0°F2010: 47.3°F2011: 45.4°F2012: 46.3°F2013: 47.0°F2014: 46.6°F2015: 47.6°F2016: 46.0°F2017: 47.2°F2018: 46.5°F2019: 48.6°F2020: 49.2°F2021: 46.6°F2023: 47.8°F2024: 51.2°F2025: 50.5°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
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 4 more freezing nights a year and about 3 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: +1.6°F+1.6JFebruary: +1.6°F+1.6FMarch: +1.0°F+1.0MApril: +1.3°F+1.3AMay: +0.9°F+0.9MJune: +1.0°F+1.0JJuly: +2.5°F+2.5JAugust: +2.2°F+2.2ASeptember: +1.7°F+1.7SOctober: +1.2°F+1.2ONovember: +2.3°F+2.3NDecember: +2.6°F+2.6D

December has warmed the most — about 2.6°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 26 years of daily observations at Sumy, a weather station, about 12 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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