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Has the climate in Haywards Heath changed?

Haywards Heath has warmed about 2°F between 1993 and 2024.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Haywards Heath's official daily weather records, 1993–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Haywards Heath's warming is broadly in line with other cities in United Kingdom — 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.

Average temperature
+1.4°F
1970s
50.9°F
Recent
52.3°F
A steady upward drift

Haywards Heath's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1993 to 2024.

47°49°51°53°55°1993: 49.7°F1994: 51.1°F1995: 51.7°F1996: 48.8°F1997: 51.3°F1998: 51.1°F1999: 51.8°F2000: 51.2°F2001: 50.7°F2002: 51.9°F2003: 51.5°F2004: 51.1°F2005: 51.2°F2006: 52.3°F2007: 52.0°F2008: 51.1°F2009: 51.3°F2010: 49.0°F2011: 51.9°F2012: 50.5°F2013: 50.0°F2014: 52.9°F2015: 51.9°F2016: 51.7°F2017: 52.0°F2018: 52.4°F2019: 52.0°F2020: 53.0°F2021: 51.3°F2022: 53.3°F2023: 52.9°F2024: 52.8°Flong-term trend19932000201020202024
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 28 years of daily observations at Herstmonceux West End, a weather station, about 31 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →