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Has the climate in Saguenay changed?

Saguenay has warmed about 1°F between 1971 and 2020.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Saguenay's official daily weather records, 1971–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Saguenay's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Canada — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Average temperature
+1.3°F
1970s
36.8°F
Recent
38.1°F
A steady upward drift

Saguenay's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2020.

28°30°32°34°36°38°40°42°44°46°48°1971: 35.8°F1972: 29.1°F1973: 38.0°F1974: 35.6°F1975: 46.7°F1993: 30.9°F1994: 39.8°F1995: 36.5°F1996: 37.4°F1997: 35.7°F1998: 39.3°F1999: 40.5°F2000: 37.3°F2001: 40.8°F2002: 33.4°F2003: 35.6°F2004: 36.0°F2005: 37.9°F2006: 40.2°F2007: 36.6°F2008: 38.0°F2009: 36.9°F2010: 41.8°F2011: 39.5°F2012: 38.2°F2013: 38.4°F2014: 37.7°F2015: 32.4°F2016: 39.4°F2017: 38.5°F2018: 37.7°F2019: 36.7°F2020: 39.1°Flong-term trend1971200020102020
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°September: +1.9°F+1.9SOctober: +1.4°F+1.4ONovember: +2.0°F+2.0N

November has warmed the most — about 2.0°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 26 years of daily observations at Jonquiere, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →