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Has the climate in City of Sammamish changed?

City of Sammamish has warmed about 2.7°F between 1971 and 2022.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from City of Sammamish's official daily weather records, 1971–2022. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? City of Sammamish's warming is broadly in line with other cities in United States — 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.

Freezing nights
18 fewer nights
1970s
56 / yr
Recent
38 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.9°F
1970s
51.7°F
Recent
53.6°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
5 / yr
Recent
5 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
149 / yr
Recent
147 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

City of Sammamish's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2022.

48°50°52°54°56°58°1971: 50.8°F1972: 50.7°F1973: 51.3°F1974: 52.5°F1975: 51.1°F1976: 50.9°F1977: 52.3°F1978: 53.3°F1981: 53.1°F1982: 51.1°F1983: 51.8°F1984: 51.7°F1985: 49.3°F1986: 52.4°F1987: 52.7°F1988: 51.4°F1991: 53.0°F1992: 52.1°F1993: 51.4°F1994: 53.4°F1995: 55.3°F1996: 52.6°F1997: 54.1°F1998: 54.3°F1999: 52.6°F2000: 52.7°F2001: 52.3°F2002: 52.5°F2003: 54.1°F2004: 54.6°F2005: 53.7°F2006: 53.5°F2007: 53.0°F2008: 51.9°F2009: 52.2°F2010: 53.5°F2011: 51.4°F2012: 52.9°F2013: 52.8°F2014: 55.0°F2015: 56.2°F2016: 54.7°F2017: 53.5°F2018: 55.1°F2019: 53.4°F2020: 54.2°F2021: 54.0°F2022: 53.6°Flong-term trend19712000201020202022
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.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 10 fewer freezing nights a year compared with the 1970s.

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°+2.5°+3.0°January: +1.8°F+1.8JFebruary: +0.3°F+0.3FMarch: +1.0°F+1.0MApril: +1.4°F+1.4AMay: +2.2°F+2.2MJune: +1.6°F+1.6JJuly: +2.6°F+2.6JAugust: +2.4°F+2.4ASeptember: +2.0°F+2.0SOctober: +1.3°F+1.3ONovember: +1.2°F+1.2NDecember: +1.2°F+1.2D

July has warmed the most — about 2.6°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from NOAA's U.S. Climate Normals, measured at Kent (NOAA GHCN station USC00454169), about 26 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →