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Has the climate in Lai Châu changed?

Lai Châu has warmed about 2.9°F between 1993 and 2024.

About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Lai Châu'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? Lai Châu's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Vietnam.

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
+2.1°F
1970s
74.5°F
Recent
76.7°F
A steady upward drift

Lai Châu's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1993 to 2024.

72°74°76°78°1993: 74.7°F1994: 74.3°F1995: 73.7°F1996: 73.7°F1997: 75.0°F1998: 75.6°F1999: 74.9°F2000: 74.4°F2001: 74.4°F2002: 74.8°F2003: 76.0°F2004: 74.7°F2005: 75.2°F2006: 75.7°F2007: 75.1°F2008: 73.9°F2009: 75.5°F2010: 75.8°F2011: 73.2°F2012: 75.3°F2013: 75.4°F2014: 75.4°F2015: 77.1°F2016: 76.2°F2017: 75.9°F2018: 76.2°F2019: 77.6°F2020: 76.7°F2021: 76.3°F2022: 75.7°F2023: 77.5°F2024: 77.7°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 Lao Cai, a weather station, about 54 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →