Phnom Penh Climate Shift Score
Cambodia · Asia · Climate Shift score
This page ranks Phnom Penh'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 Phnom Penh's Climate Shift Index score
How fast is Phnom Penh's climate changing compared to other capitals?
Phnom Penh ranks 205 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 Phnom Penh?
The fastest-shifting variable in Phnom Penh is precipitation, at +79 mm/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 Phnom Penh warming per decade?
Phnom Penh is warming at +0.10°C/decade across 1976 to 2025. Over thirty years that works out at roughly 0.3°C. The trend accounts for 7% of the variation between years; the rest is ordinary year-to-year swing.
Is Phnom Penh getting more extreme heat days?
Days above 30°C are increasing by +4.6 days/decade in Phnom Penh. On this trend that is roughly 14 days gained or lost every thirty years.
Is Phnom Penh losing its winter?
Frost days are declining by +0.0 days/decade in Phnom Penh. 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 Phnom Penh'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. Phnom Penh scores 30.5. 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.
