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Hottest summers in South Korea between 1973 and 2024, by heat wave period
What is South Korea's number of days with heatwaves? As of 2024, it's 30.1 Number of days with heatwaves, up from 15.2 Number of days with heatwaves in 1973.
| Label | Number of days with heatwaves |
|---|---|
| 1973 | 15.2 Number of days with heatwaves |
| 1978 | 16.3 Number of days with heatwaves |
| 1990 | 16.4 Number of days with heatwaves |
| 1994 | 29.6 Number of days with heatwaves |
| 1996 | 15.7 Number of days with heatwaves |
| 2004 | 14.8 Number of days with heatwaves |
| 2013 | 16.6 Number of days with heatwaves |
| 2016 | 22 Number of days with heatwaves |
| 2018 | 31 Number of days with heatwaves |
| 2024 | 30.1 Number of days with heatwaves |
Data Source: Wantstats Repository
Hottest summers in South Korea between 1973 and 2024, by heat wave period: Key Points
- Bookending the series — 1973 at 15.20 Number of days with heatwaves, 2024 at 30.10 Number of days with heatwaves — puts South Korea's hottest summers in South Korea between 1973 and 2024, by heat wave period up by roughly 98% across the full window.
- 1994: spikes to 29.60 Number of days with heatwaves (+80%).
- 1996: collapses to 15.70 Number of days with heatwaves (-47%).
- 2016: shoots up to 22.00 Number of days with heatwaves (+33%).
- 2018: leaps to 31.00 Number of days with heatwaves (+41%).
- 2024: Finishes at 30.10 Number of days with heatwaves, up 98.0% from where it started in 1973.
What The Volatility Really Means
No consistent direction here means no reliable forecast either. Whatever caused the last move up or down, it hasn't been strong enough to hold for long.
Use the direction of this line more than any single year's value — hottest summers in South Korea between 1973 and 2024, by heat wave period figures like this one are most reliable as a trend indicator, less reliable as a precise year-by-year scorecard.
This is South Korea data, published by the source linked below. Indicator series like this are usually modeled/estimated between survey years, not measured fresh every year — trust the multi-year direction over any one data point.
There's a real gap between 1973 and 1978 in the underlying data — not a zero, not an interpolated value, just missing. Don't read a straight line between those two points as what actually happened in between.
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