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Has the climate in Southend-on-Sea changed?

Southend-on-Sea has warmed about 2°F between 1993 and 2024.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Southend-on-Sea'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? Southend-on-Sea'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
51.4°F
Recent
52.7°F
A steady upward drift

Southend-on-Sea's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1993 to 2024.

48°50°52°54°1993: 50.4°F1994: 51.8°F1995: 51.6°F1996: 49.1°F1997: 51.6°F1998: 51.8°F1999: 52.5°F2000: 51.6°F2001: 51.0°F2002: 52.4°F2003: 51.9°F2004: 51.8°F2005: 51.5°F2006: 52.4°F2007: 52.1°F2008: 51.3°F2009: 52.1°F2010: 49.6°F2011: 53.0°F2012: 51.1°F2013: 50.4°F2014: 53.6°F2015: 52.6°F2016: 52.3°F2017: 52.8°F2018: 52.4°F2019: 52.2°F2020: 53.1°F2021: 51.6°F2022: 53.6°F2023: 53.2°F2024: 53.6°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 30 years of daily observations at Shoeburyness Landwick, a weather station, about 8 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →