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Has the climate in Papatoetoe changed?

Papatoetoe has warmed about 1.4°F between 1995 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Papatoetoe's official daily weather records, 1995–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Papatoetoe's warming is broadly in line with other cities in New Zealand — 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
+1.0°F
1970s
59.5°F
Recent
60.6°F
A steady upward drift

Papatoetoe's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1995 to 2024.

57°59°61°63°1995: 59.3°F1996: 59.4°F1997: 58.6°F1998: 61.3°F1999: 60.2°F2000: 59.9°F2001: 59.8°F2002: 59.3°F2003: 59.3°F2004: 58.4°F2005: 60.4°F2006: 59.0°F2007: 59.6°F2008: 59.8°F2009: 58.7°F2010: 60.1°F2011: 60.0°F2012: 59.2°F2013: 60.3°F2014: 59.6°F2015: 59.8°F2016: 60.8°F2017: 60.4°F2018: 60.5°F2019: 60.4°F2020: 60.4°F2021: 60.9°F2022: 61.7°F2023: 60.5°F2024: 60.6°Flong-term trend19952000201020202024
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.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 26 years of daily observations at Auckland Aero Aws, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →