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Tanzania - Hottest Year Ever in 2024
April 21 , 2025
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- In 2024, Tanzania experienced its hottest year on record, marked by sharply rising nighttime temperatures.
- The country’s average annual minimum temperature, a key indicator of nighttime warmth, reached 19.3°C, which was 1.1°C higher than the long-term average.
- This increase has outpaced the rise in maximum temperatures, which stood at 28.8°C, just 0.4°C above average.
- Across the most of the country, maximum temperatures were 0°C to 1°C above average.
- The national average temperature for 2024 reached 24.3°C, 0.7°C above normal.
- It is surpassing the previous record set in 2023 and marking the highest since records began in 1970.
- The year was also Tanzania’s fourth wettest since 1970 and the wettest in two decades, with total rainfall reaching 1,307.6 mm, 285.2 mm (28 per cent) above average.
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