Climate Change Chart of Hyderabad, India

Overview of climate changes

Temperature changes

Averaged across calendar months, monthly mean temperature shows a difference of +0.67 °C compared with the earlier reference period; this is an unweighted mean of the calendar-month means, not a day-weighted annual average or a measure of daytime maximum temperatures. The largest monthly increase was in November, with a difference of +1.43 °C. That identifies the strongest increase among the supplied monthly differences, rather than implying that every month warmed by the same amount.

Changes in rainfall

Mean daily rainfall, rather than monthly rainfall totals, had an unweighted across-calendar-month mean difference of +0.11 mm/day. The monthly pattern was not uniform: the largest increase was in July, at a difference of +2.86 mm/day, while the largest decrease was in May, at a difference of -1.40 mm/day. These extrema describe the largest supplied monthly changes in opposite directions; they do not show that rainfall changed this way in every month or on every day.

Changes in sunshine duration

Mean daily sunshine duration averaged across calendar months had a difference of -0.21 hours/day compared with the earlier period; this is an unweighted mean of monthly means, not an annual total. Monthly differences varied in direction: the largest increase occurred in May, with a difference of +0.20 hours/day, while the largest decrease occurred in June, with a difference of -0.69 hours/day. These monthly comparisons describe average daily sunshine, not the conditions on every individual day.