Climate change: These cities are on track for extreme conditions by 2050

Jun 28, 2022

Cities are expected to experience hotter conditions and less precipitation. Image: Unsplash/Alexes Gerard

Katharina Buchholz

Data Journalist, Statista

Our Impact

The Big Picture

Explore and monitor how Climate Change is affecting economies, industries and global issues

A hand holding a looking glass by a lake

Crowdsource Innovation

Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale

Stay up to date:

Climate Change

Discover

What’s the World Economic Forum doing about climate change?

Projected average temperature increase/precipitation decrease in selected Asian cities until 2050.

Tehran is projected to have the greatest average temperature increase of 6.2 degrees Celcius. Image: Jean-Francois Bastin et al. Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues, Plos One journals

Have you read?

Don't miss any update on this topic

Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.