How hot has it been, month by month?
Each turn of the spiral is one year. The further a month is from the centre, the warmer it was compared with the average of the years shown. Red is warm, blue is cold.
Click a place on the globe, or try:
Each station on the globe has the colour of its last year compared with the rest of its own record. Use the layers button at the foot of the globe to show stations or regions and to choose the sources.
Drag on the stripes to choose the year. One stripe per year, blue colder, red warmer, smoothed like the spiral; dark grey: too few months. Warming stripes created by Ed Hawkins, University of Reading.
The place in a few facts
The 0 °C ring is the average of the years shown, not a real temperature.
