Des Moines Climate Shift Score
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This page ranks Des Moines'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 Des Moines's Climate Shift Index score
How fast is Des Moines's climate changing compared to other capitals?
Des Moines ranks 132 of 245 world capitals for how fast its climate is shifting. That places the city in the middle of the ranking. The ranking measures pace of change, not how hot or how pleasant a city is.
What is changing fastest in Des Moines?
The fastest-shifting variable in Des Moines is frost days, at -1.9 days/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 Des Moines warming per decade?
Des Moines is warming at +0.30°C/decade across 1976 to 2025. Over thirty years that works out at roughly 0.9°C. The trend accounts for 16% of the variation between years; the rest is ordinary year-to-year swing.
Is Des Moines getting more extreme heat days?
Days above 30°C are increasing by +2.4 days/decade in Des Moines. On this trend that is roughly 7 days gained or lost every thirty years.
Is Des Moines losing its winter?
Frost days are declining by -1.9 days/decade in Des Moines. 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 Des Moines'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. Des Moines scores 48.0. 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.
