Virton is a weather station located 255 m above sea level, 0 km from Virton. Its records go back to 1954: 46 years of temperature are available up to 2004, along with rainfall and a comparison with two reference normals. Closed series: the records of this station end in 2004. Over the whole series (46 years) the annual mean temperature there is 9.1 °C; the 1961–1990 and 1991–2020 reference periods are not documented well enough for a comparison. The warmest year of the series is 2000 (10.5 °C) and the coldest 1963 (7.6 °C). The last complete year, 2004, ranks 21 out of 46, from warmest to coldest. Over 1961–2004, the annual mean temperature changes by +0.32 °C per decade. The station ranks 8 out of 12 stations, from the fastest rise to the slowest.
Annual mean temperature since 1954
The first ten years of the series (1954–1963) average 8.7 °C; the last ten (1992–2004) average 9.7 °C, a difference of +1.0 °C. Of the ten warmest years in the series, 1 fall after 1999. The warmest is 2000 (10.5 °C). The ten-year running mean peaks at 9.7 °C (2000) and bottoms out at 8.6 °C (1971).
Records at Virton
- Warmest year: 10.5 °C, in 2000
- Coldest year: 7.6 °C, in 1963
- Warmest month: 21.6 °C, in July 1994
- Coldest month: −7.8 °C, in February 1956
2.9 °C separate the warmest year of the series from the coldest. Daily records are not part of the dataset for this station: only annual and monthly extremes are shown.
Temperature trend over 1961–2004
The regression line of annual mean temperature changes by +0.32 °C per decade between 1961 and 2004, about +1.4 °C over the whole period. That is slower than the median of the 12 stations (+0.36 °C per decade), by 0.04 °C per decade: the station ranks 8 out of 12.
Data source and licence
Data source: IRM/KMI via NOAA NCEI (dataset “GHCN-Daily + GHCN-Monthly v4 (qcu)”), licence Public domain (NOAA NCEI); original data: IRM/KMI. Last updated: 29 October 2026.
The data for Virton are shown as the source publishes them; this site does not correct them. A year is kept only if at least eleven months of measurements are available, and a normal is computed only with at least twenty years of data out of its thirty. Temperatures are rounded to 0.1 °C and rainfall to the millimetre. The station is one of 12 stations in Belgium: the overview page lets you compare them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the annual mean temperature at Virton?
Over the whole series (46 years), the annual mean temperature at Virton is 9.1 °C.
What is the warmest year ever measured at Virton?
Since records began in 1954, the warmest year at Virton is 2000, at 10.5 °C on average. The coldest is 1963 (7.6 °C).
Is the climate at Virton getting warmer?
Yes: at Virton, the annual mean temperature rises by 0.32 °C per decade between 1961 and 2004, +1.4 °C in total. 1 of the 10 warmest years in the series fall after 1999.
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