Climate change is global, but people experience it locally.
Ed Hawkins’ warming stripes — one coloured rectangle per year, blue for cool, red for hot — have become the visual shorthand for climate change. The chart at the top of this page is the same grammar, but pointed at a specific city rather than the planet.
Twenty-one cities are in the dropdown: every Indonesian capital with a 1 M+ population, the SEA capitals, four Australian cities and the three biggest in Aotearoa. The dataset is Berkeley Earth’s 1° gridded land-surface analysis (Jan 2025 release, running to Dec 2024), sampled at each city’s centroid by nearest-neighbour. The default baseline is 1961–2010 — long enough to absorb decadal variability without being dragged into the recent warming. Toggle to 1981–2010 or 1991–2020 to see the same series re-anchored.