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Decadal average surface temperature by country

The temperature of the air measured 2 meters above the ground, encompassing land, sea, and in-land water surfaces.

Countries reporting
191
Highest
28.96 °C
Mali
Lowest
-17.86 °C
Greenland
Median
22.76 °C
Years covered
71
1940–2010
Data points
1,544

What the numbers show

Decadal average surface temperature is currently reported for 191 countries. The highest value is 28.96 °C in Mali; the lowest is -17.86 °C in Greenland.

The median across all reporting countries is 22.76 °C, and the mean is 18.99 °C.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Over the past decade 180 countries rose and 11 fell. The largest increase was in Tajikistan (up 554.6%), and the largest decrease in Mongolia (down 6.6%).

Decadal average surface temperature: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Mali 28.96 °C 2010 up 0.8% rising
2 Burkina Faso 28.95 °C 2010 up 1.0% rising
3 Senegal 28.89 °C 2010 up 0.7% rising
4 United Arab Emirates 28.55 °C 2010 up 1.6% rising
5 Djibouti 28.45 °C 2010 up 0.4% rising
6 South Sudan 28.21 °C 2010 up 1.6% rising
7 Oman 28.08 °C 2010 up 0.9% flat
8 Niger 27.96 °C 2010 up 1.9% rising
9 Gambia 27.94 °C 2010 up 1.0% flat
10 Benin 27.85 °C 2010 up 1.1% rising
11 Qatar 27.84 °C 2010 up 0.8% rising
12 Mauritania 27.81 °C 2010 up 0.8% rising
13 Cambodia 27.78 °C 2010 up 1.6% rising
14 Ghana 27.71 °C 2010 up 1.4% rising
15 Chad 27.66 °C 2010 up 2.0% rising
16 Sudan 27.6 °C 2010 up 1.3% rising
17 Guinea-Bissau 27.53 °C 2010 down 0.1% flat
18 Nigeria 27.3 °C 2010 up 0.8% flat
19 Togo 27.23 °C 2010 up 1.4% rising
20 Eritrea 27.22 °C 2010 up 1.2% rising
21 Cayman Islands 26.94 °C 2010 up 1.0% flat
22 American Samoa 26.89 °C 2010 up 0.5% flat
23 Somalia 26.71 °C 2010 up 0.7% flat
24 Sri Lanka 26.69 °C 2010 up 0.6% flat
25 Kuwait 26.68 °C 2010 up 1.8% rising
26 Brunei 26.62 °C 2010 up 1.3% rising
27 Cote d'Ivoire 26.61 °C 2010 up 0.9% rising
28 Thailand 26.59 °C 2010 up 1.2% rising
29 Seychelles 26.56 °C 2010 up 0.7% flat
30 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 26.53 °C 2010 up 0.5% flat
31 Kiribati 26.53 °C 2010 up 0.4% flat
32 Saudi Arabia 26.52 °C 2010 up 2.1% rising
33 United States Virgin Islands 26.46 °C 2010 up 0.5% flat
34 Trinidad and Tobago 26.42 °C 2010 up 1.0% flat
35 El Salvador 26.4 °C 2010 up 2.2% rising
36 Solomon Islands 26.33 °C 2010 up 1.4% flat
37 Bahrain 26.29 °C 2010 up 0.7% flat
38 Antigua and Barbuda 26.28 °C 2010 up 0.3% flat
39 Anguilla 26.24 °C 2010 up 0.4% flat
40 Philippines 26.16 °C 2010 up 1.1% rising
41 Central African Republic 26.13 °C 2010 up 1.5% flat
42 Guinea 26.08 °C 2010 up 0.5% rising
43 Suriname 26.06 °C 2010 up 0.9% flat
44 Yemen 25.98 °C 2010 up 0.8% rising
45 Jamaica 25.97 °C 2010 up 1.6% rising
46 Belize 25.9 °C 2010 up 1.7% rising
47 Sierra Leone 25.88 °C 2010 up 0.8% flat
48 Venezuela 25.8 °C 2010 up 1.5% rising
49 Malaysia 25.79 °C 2010 up 1.3% rising
50 Bahamas 25.67 °C 2010 up 1.1% flat
51 Sao Tome and Principe 25.64 °C 2010 up 0.2% flat
52 Nicaragua 25.59 °C 2010 up 1.1% flat
53 Cuba 25.58 °C 2010 up 0.8% flat
54 Bangladesh 25.54 °C 2010 up 0.6% flat
55 Kenya 25.51 °C 2010 up 0.9% rising
56 French Polynesia 25.45 °C 2010 down 0.0% flat
57 Puerto Rico 25.43 °C 2010 up 0.9% flat
58 Guyana 25.42 °C 2010 up 0.8% flat
59 Indonesia 25.4 °C 2010 up 1.4% rising
60 Samoa 25.4 °C 2010 up 0.6% flat
61 Brazil 25.29 °C 2010 up 1.4% flat
62 Haiti 25.26 °C 2010 up 1.5% flat
63 Liberia 25.26 °C 2010 up 1.1% flat
64 Panama 25.24 °C 2010 up 1.7% flat
65 Comoros 25.21 °C 2010 up 1.1% flat
66 Vanuatu 25.08 °C 2010 up 0.5% flat
67 Congo 25.05 °C 2010 up 1.7% flat
68 Gabon 24.96 °C 2010 up 2.1% rising
69 Cameroon 24.83 °C 2010 up 1.4% flat
70 East Timor 24.65 °C 2010 up 1.1% flat
71 Fiji 24.51 °C 2010 up 0.6% flat
72 Dominican Republic 24.47 °C 2010 up 1.3% flat
73 Democratic Republic of Congo 24.47 °C 2010 up 2.1% flat
74 Cook Islands 24.46 °C 2010 up 0.4% flat
75 India 24.38 °C 2010 up 0.7% flat
76 Colombia 24.2 °C 2010 up 1.9% rising
77 Vietnam 24.18 °C 2010 up 1.7% rising
78 Equatorial Guinea 24.17 °C 2010 up 2.3% rising
79 Algeria 24.14 °C 2010 up 1.7% rising
80 Mozambique 24.1 °C 2010 up 1.2% flat
81 Paraguay 24.08 °C 2010 up 0.6% flat
82 Mauritius 23.9 °C 2010 up 1.4% flat
83 Myanmar 23.86 °C 2010 up 1.3% rising
84 Honduras 23.75 °C 2010 up 1.7% rising
85 Papua New Guinea 23.65 °C 2010 up 0.9% rising
86 Ethiopia 23.65 °C 2010 up 1.5% rising
87 Egypt 23.51 °C 2010 up 2.3% rising
88 Iraq 23.46 °C 2010 up 1.7% rising
89 Laos 23.43 °C 2010 up 2.0% rising
90 Uganda 23.38 °C 2010 up 1.3% rising
91 Guatemala 23.36 °C 2010 up 2.7% rising
92 Hong Kong 23.28 °C 2010 up 0.1% flat
93 Costa Rica 23.25 °C 2010 up 1.3% flat
94 Tanzania 23.07 °C 2010 up 1.4% flat
95 Madagascar 22.89 °C 2010 up 1.2% rising
96 Libya 22.76 °C 2010 up 1.9% rising
97 Cape Verde 22.75 °C 2010 down 0.5% flat
98 New Caledonia 22.61 °C 2010 up 0.6% rising
99 Angola 22.56 °C 2010 up 2.4% flat
100 Malawi 22.38 °C 2010 up 2.1% flat
101 Botswana 22.36 °C 2010 up 2.1% flat
102 Australia 22.34 °C 2010 up 1.1% flat
103 Zambia 22.2 °C 2010 up 1.6% flat
104 Namibia 21.83 °C 2010 up 2.5% rising
105 Zimbabwe 21.82 °C 2010 up 2.3% flat
106 Saint Helena 21.48 °C 2010 up 0.6% flat
107 Mexico 21.07 °C 2010 up 1.3% rising
108 Ecuador 21.04 °C 2010 up 3.4% rising
109 Burundi 20.86 °C 2010 up 1.8% rising
110 Israel 20.83 °C 2010 up 3.2% rising
111 Palestine 20.82 °C 2010 up 2.9% rising
112 Pakistan 20.65 °C 2010 up 0.0% flat
113 Bolivia 20.59 °C 2010 up 1.9% rising
114 Tunisia 20.53 °C 2010 up 0.8% rising
115 Cyprus 20.16 °C 2010 up 2.0% rising
116 Eswatini 20.04 °C 2010 up 2.2% flat
117 Jordan 19.95 °C 2010 up 3.8% rising
118 Rwanda 19.73 °C 2010 up 2.3% rising
119 Syria 19.67 °C 2010 up 4.6% rising
120 Peru 18.98 °C 2010 up 1.5% rising
121 Iran 18.86 °C 2010 up 2.1% rising
122 Morocco 18.77 °C 2010 up 1.4% rising
123 South Africa 18.25 °C 2010 up 2.7% rising
124 Uruguay 17.71 °C 2010 up 1.0% flat
125 Turkmenistan 16.97 °C 2010 up 1.0% rising
126 Lebanon 16.11 °C 2010 up 4.1% rising
127 Portugal 15.46 °C 2010 up 1.2% flat
128 Greece 15.42 °C 2010 up 3.6% rising
129 Argentina 14.93 °C 2010 up 2.2% rising
130 Spain 14.42 °C 2010 up 1.9% rising
131 Uzbekistan 13.76 °C 2010 up 0.9% rising
132 France 13.69 °C 2010 up 1.9% rising
133 Italy 13.45 °C 2010 up 2.7% rising
134 Nepal 13.33 °C 2010 up 1.0% rising
135 Albania 13.14 °C 2010 up 5.6% rising
136 Afghanistan 13.02 °C 2010 up 1.9% rising
137 Azerbaijan 12.68 °C 2010 up 4.4% rising
138 South Korea 12.58 °C 2010 up 1.2% rising
139 Croatia 12.56 °C 2010 up 2.9% rising
140 Turkey 12.23 °C 2010 up 6.1% rising
141 Japan 12.2 °C 2010 up 2.1% rising
142 Bulgaria 11.91 °C 2010 up 3.8% rising
143 Lesotho 11.84 °C 2010 up 6.1% rising
144 Hungary 11.79 °C 2010 up 4.2% rising
145 North Macedonia 11.7 °C 2010 up 6.4% rising
146 Serbia 11.65 °C 2010 up 4.1% rising
147 Moldova 11.03 °C 2010 up 4.8% rising
148 Bosnia and Herzegovina 10.87 °C 2010 up 4.4% rising
149 New Zealand 10.72 °C 2010 up 4.6% rising
150 Slovenia 10.67 °C 2010 up 4.9% rising
151 Netherlands 10.6 °C 2010 down 0.5% rising
152 Romania 10.51 °C 2010 up 4.9% rising
153 Belgium 10.44 °C 2010 up 0.1% rising
154 Montenegro 10.31 °C 2010 up 7.6% rising
155 Isle of Man 10.28 °C 2010 down 1.9% rising
156 United States 9.96 °C 2010 up 4.4% rising
158 Ukraine 9.77 °C 2010 up 6.2% rising
160 Germany 9.68 °C 2010 up 2.0% rising
161 United Kingdom 9.44 °C 2010 down 1.4% rising
162 Chile 9.26 °C 2010 up 3.2% rising
163 Slovakia 9.2 °C 2010 up 6.4% rising
164 Poland 9.13 °C 2010 up 3.6% rising
165 Denmark 9.01 °C 2010 down 0.8% rising
166 Czechia 8.98 °C 2010 up 4.6% rising
167 Georgia 8.84 °C 2010 up 12.5% rising
168 Bhutan 8.58 °C 2010 up 3.6% rising
169 Belarus 7.77 °C 2010 up 6.5% rising
170 Lithuania 7.61 °C 2010 up 3.4% rising
171 Austria 7.42 °C 2010 up 8.3% rising
172 China 7.36 °C 2010 up 1.6% rising
173 North Korea 7.28 °C 2010 up 1.6% rising
174 Faroe Islands 7.23 °C 2010 down 1.2% rising
175 Kazakhstan 7.13 °C 2010 down 2.0% rising
176 Armenia 7.08 °C 2010 up 10.9% rising
177 Latvia 6.98 °C 2010 up 2.4% rising
178 Falkland Islands 6.69 °C 2010 up 1.2% rising
179 Estonia 6.54 °C 2010 up 2.1% rising
180 Switzerland 5.97 °C 2010 up 7.4% rising
181 Andorra 5.75 °C 2010 up 4.9% rising
182 Sweden 3.88 °C 2010 down 1.5% rising
183 Finland 3.19 °C 2010 up 5.1% rising
184 Iceland 2.21 °C 2010 up 9.1% volatile
185 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 1.8 °C 2010 up 18.4% rising
186 Mongolia 1.46 °C 2010 down 6.6% volatile
187 Norway 1.21 °C 2010 up 13.8% volatile
188 Kyrgyzstan 0.5984 °C 2010 up 6.1% volatile
189 Tajikistan 0.3352 °C 2010 up 554.6% volatile
190 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands -0.4785 °C 2010 up 42.4% rising
191 Russia -3.1 °C 2010 up 14.1% rising
192 Canada -3.33 °C 2010 up 10.8% rising
193 Greenland -17.86 °C 2010 up 1.7% rising

About this data

Indicator
Decadal average surface temperature
Unit
°C
Source
Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
193 places, 1,544 data points, 1940–2010
Last refreshed

The temperature of the air measured 2 meters above the ground, encompassing land, sea, and in-land water surfaces.