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Has the climate in Masvingo changed?

Masvingo has warmed about 0.9°F between 1991 and 2017.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Masvingo's official daily weather records, 1991–2017. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Masvingo's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Zimbabwe — 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
+0.8°F
1970s
68.0°F
Recent
68.8°F
A steady upward drift

Masvingo's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2017.

64°66°68°70°72°1991: 68.2°F1992: 70.6°F1993: 68.0°F1994: 67.3°F1995: 69.5°F1996: 66.4°F1997: 66.2°F1998: 67.3°F1999: 65.8°F2000: 66.0°F2001: 67.5°F2002: 67.2°F2003: 66.1°F2004: 66.0°F2005: 67.7°F2006: 67.0°F2010: 68.9°F2012: 69.1°F2013: 68.3°F2014: 67.9°F2015: 68.6°F2016: 70.2°F2017: 68.5°Flong-term trend1991200020102017
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 22 years of daily observations at Masvingo Intl, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →