How does the temperature now compare to temperatures over the past half century?

Is today abnormally warm or cold? How does it compare to the same date in previous years? Or the past week's temperature? Or the past month or past year?

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Fifty years of temperature history made visible

Compare any period with previous years

Each bar represents a year. Choose to see today's temperature, the past week, month, or year compared with the same period in every year going back 50 years. Red bars are among the warmest years on record, blue are among the coolest.

See how it compares with the historical average

A vertical line marks the historical average temperature for the period you're viewing. At a glance you can tell whether this year is above or below what's typical for the time of year — and by how much.

Spot long-term trends

A trend line across five decades shows whether there's a warming or a cooling trend, or no real trend at all. In the stats below each chart you can see how certain the trend is.

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Weather data by Open-Meteo.com

Birmingham’s climate

England, United Kingdom · 52.49°N, 1.89°W · Europe/London

Birmingham sits about 140 metres above sea level in the middle of England, far from any coast. Winter highs average about 7°C, with frost on around ten nights in a typical January, and summer highs are around 21°C, reaching the low 30s in a heatwave.

With no sea to moderate it, the gap between summer day and night temperatures is a little wider than in coastal cities such as Cardiff. Over the past 50 years its average temperature has risen by about 0.4°C per decade, so older decades were cooler.

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