Temperature in Zimbabwe

Temperature in Zimbabwe: 20.7 °C in 1950 and 21.8 °C in 2025, by ERA5 observations.

Latest, 2025: 21.8 °C
Since 1950: +1.1 °C
Rank, 2025: 132 of 233; counting from the highest
Projected, 2100: 24.3 °C; CMIP6 model median (SSP2-4.5, middle of the road)

°C · ERA5

Observed, ERA5CMIP6 historical run, model medianCMIP6 model median (SSP2-4.5, middle of the road)models’ 10th–90th percentile

What the numbers say

The CMIP6 model median (SSP2-4.5, middle of the road) puts it at 24.3 °C in 2100, between 23.2 °C and 25.4 °C (models’ 10th–90th percentile).
The highest was 22.9 °C in 2024, the lowest 19.9 °C in 1974.

Every year

°C · ERA5

Year	Observed, ERA5	CMIP6 historical run, model median
2025	21.8	22.1
2024	22.9	22.4
2023	22.3	22.3
2022	21.6	22.2
2021	21.6	22.1
2020	21.8	22.2
2019	22.4	22.1
2018	21.9	22.1
2017	21.2	22.1
2016	22.3	22
2015	22.2	22
2014	21.5	21.9
2013	21.6	22
2012	21.8	21.8
2011	21.5	21.7
2010	21.8	21.8
2009	21	21.6
2008	21.3	21.8
2007	21.4	21.7
2006	21.3	21.6
2005	22.3	21.8
2004	21.2	21.8
2003	21.5	21.8
2002	21.7	21.8
2001	21.1	21.7
2000	20.6	21.7
1999	21	21.4
1998	21.6	21.7
1997	21	21.4
1996	21	21.4
1995	22.1	21.3
1994	21.3	21.3
1993	21.5	21
1992	22.4	21.1
1991	21.4	21.3
1990	21.5	21.6
1989	21.1	21.4
1988	21.1	21.4
1987	22.1	21.3
1986	20.7	21.3
1985	20.7	21.1
1984	21.2	21.1
1983	22.1	21.1
1982	21.2	21
1981	20.1	21.2
1980	20.7	21.2
1979	20.6	21.2
1978	20.2	21
1977	20.8	21.1
1976	20	21.1
1975	20.2	21.1
1974	19.9	21.2
1973	20.9	21.1
1972	20.6	21.2
1971	21	21.1
1970	21.5	21.1
1969	20.7	21.2
1968	20.9	21.1
1967	20.7	21
1966	21.1	20.8
1965	20.7	21
1964	20.8	20.8
1963	20.5	20.7
1962	20.8	21.1
1961	21.2	21.1
1960	20.9	21.3
1959	20.8	21.2
1958	20.4	21.2
1957	20.9	21.2
1956	20.2	20.9
1955	19.9	21.2
1954	21.6	21.1
1953	20.2	21
1952	21	21
1951	22.3	21.1
1950	20.7	21

12.3Projected

CMIP6 model median (SSP2-4.5, middle of the road) · 2026–2100

Year	Observed, ERA5	CMIP6 historical run, model median
2026	–	22.321.6–23.1
2027	–	22.521.8–23.5
2028	–	22.521.8–23.2
2029	–	22.821.9–23.3
2030	–	22.622.1–23.4
2031	–	22.621.8–23.4
2032	–	22.621.9–23.4
2033	–	22.621.8–23.5
2034	–	22.721.8–23.8
2035	–	22.822–23.5
2036	–	22.722–23.4
2037	–	2322.1–23.8
2038	–	23.122.1–24
2039	–	22.722–23.6
2040	–	22.622.1–23.7
2041	–	22.822.1–23.6
2042	–	2322.2–23.9
2043	–	2322.2–23.9
2044	–	2322.3–23.9
2045	–	22.922.1–23.7
2046	–	23.122.3–23.9
2047	–	23.322.2–24.1
2048	–	23.222.4–24.1
2049	–	23.322.4–24.2
2050	–	23.422.6–24.2
2051	–	23.422.7–24.3
2052	–	23.622.4–24.5
2053	–	23.322.4–24.1
2054	–	23.522.3–24.7
2055	–	23.622.5–24.6
2056	–	23.522.4–24.6
2057	–	23.322.7–24.4
2058	–	23.422.8–24.3
2059	–	23.722.9–24.6
2060	–	23.822.5–24.5
2061	–	23.622.7–24.7
2062	–	23.522.7–24.6
2063	–	23.622.6–24.6
2064	–	23.622.6–24.3
2065	–	23.622.5–24.9
2066	–	23.822.9–24.6
2067	–	23.422.6–24.7
2068	–	23.622.7–24.8
2069	–	23.822.8–24.8
2070	–	23.722.8–24.9
2071	–	23.822.9–25
2072	–	2422.6–24.9
2073	–	24.123.1–25.1
2074	–	2422.9–25.1
2075	–	23.923–24.8
2076	–	23.722.8–25
2077	–	2423–25.3
2078	–	2423.1–24.9
2079	–	23.922.8–25.2
2080	–	24.123–25.2
2081	–	2423–25.3
2082	–	2423.1–25.1
2083	–	23.922.8–25.5
2084	–	24.123–25.1
2085	–	24.423–25.4
2086	–	2423.1–25.2
2087	–	24.123.2–25.1
2088	–	24.423.3–25.4
2089	–	24.323.5–25.2
2090	–	24.323–25.2
2091	–	24.422.9–25.3
2092	–	24.323.3–25.3
2093	–	24.423–25.4
2094	–	24.523.1–25.7
2095	–	24.623.3–25.4
2096	–	24.323.4–25.5
2097	–	2423.2–25.3
2098	–	24.523.2–25.9
2099	–	24.423.2–25.6
2100	–	24.323.2–25.4

Good to know

The average air temperature near the ground, over the whole country and the whole year.
Source: ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus, ECMWF) and CMIP6, via the World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal.
The dashed line is the CMIP6 model median (SSP2-4.5, middle of the road), a scenario rather than a forecast; the band is its models’ 10th–90th percentile.
Climate model values are the median of the CMIP6 models, run on past emissions to 2014 and on SSP2-4.5, a middle-of-the-road path, after: they are not measurements.
Ranks count the 233 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.

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