Dakar Climate Shift Score
Senegal · Africa · Climate Shift score
This page ranks Dakar's own 50 year weather trend against every other live world capital, using the same full-record regression already shown on its Meteo Future Trends page. For where that trend has already gone, see the Climate Capitals trend history, or for current and historical day-to-day weather, see Meteo Capital Cities.See the full ranking of all live world capitals on the interactive map.
Score based on complete years through 2025.
Frequently asked questions about Dakar's Climate Shift Index score
How fast is Dakar's climate changing compared to other capitals?
Dakar ranks 240 of 245 world capitals for how fast its climate is shifting. That places the city in the slowest-changing third, which does not mean nothing is changing here, only that it is moving more slowly than elsewhere. The ranking measures pace of change, not how hot or how pleasant a city is.
What is changing fastest in Dakar?
The fastest-shifting variable in Dakar is sunshine hours, at -45 h/decade. That is the change per decade, fitted as a linear trend across 1976 to 2025, so over 50 years of measured data rather than two isolated years.
How much is Dakar warming per decade?
Dakar is cooling at -0.11°C/decade across 1976 to 2025. Over thirty years that works out at roughly 0.3°C. The trend accounts for 5% of the variation between years; the rest is ordinary year-to-year swing.
Is Dakar getting more extreme heat days?
Days above 30°C are decreasing by -0.9 days/decade in Dakar. On this trend that is roughly 3 days gained or lost every thirty years.
Is Dakar losing its winter?
Frost days are declining by +0.0 days/decade in Dakar. Frost days are often the fastest-shifting variable in this dataset: cold extremes tend to warm faster than hot ones, which bears directly on anything sized for a cold season.
What does Dakar's Climate Shift Index score actually mean?
The score folds six variables (temperature, tropical days, frost days, precipitation, sunshine hours and wind speed) into one number, converting each into a percentile against every other ranked capital. Dakar scores 10.7. A low score does not mean nothing is changing, only that other capitals are shifting faster, and the score says nothing about how liveable or how warm a city is.
