The monthly anomaly of the global average surface temperature in April 2017 (i.e. the average of the near-surface air temperature over land and the SST) was +0.38°C above the 1981-2010 average (+0.77°C above the 20th century average), and was the 2nd warmest since 1891. On a longer time scale, global average surface temperatures have risen at a rate of about 0.76°C per century.
1st. 2016(+0.54°C), 2nd. 2017(+0.38°C), 3rd. 2014,1998(+0.31°C), 5th. 2015(+0.30°C)