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Has the climate in Mountain View changed?

Mountain View has warmed about 0.7°F since 1971.

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from Mountain View's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Mountain View's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in United States.

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
2 more nights
1970s
1 / yr
Recent
3 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
+0.6°F
1970s
59.7°F
Recent
60.3°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 more day
1970s
7 / yr
Recent
8 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
5 fewer days
1970s
61 / yr
Recent
56 / yr
Drier on average

Mountain View's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

55°57°59°61°63°1971: 58.0°F1972: 58.8°F1973: 60.2°F1974: 58.9°F1975: 56.9°F1976: 59.9°F1977: 59.7°F1978: 61.0°F1979: 60.8°F1980: 60.0°F1981: 60.9°F1982: 59.0°F1983: 61.1°F1984: 60.9°F1985: 59.5°F1986: 61.4°F1987: 61.1°F1988: 61.2°F1989: 60.6°F1990: 60.7°F1991: 60.4°F1992: 62.5°F1993: 61.8°F1994: 58.6°F1999: 58.4°F2000: 59.8°F2001: 59.9°F2002: 59.6°F2003: 60.5°F2004: 60.6°F2005: 60.1°F2006: 59.5°F2007: 59.4°F2008: 59.6°F2009: 60.1°F2010: 59.6°F2011: 59.8°F2012: 59.8°F2013: 60.0°F2014: 62.6°F2015: 61.4°F2016: 61.3°F2017: 61.1°F2018: 59.7°F2019: 61.6°F2025: 59.0°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102025
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.

-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°January: -0.3°F-0.3JFebruary: -0.7°F-0.7FMarch: +0.1°F+0.1MApril: -0.5°F-0.5AMay: -0.2°F-0.2MJune: -0.2°F-0.2JJuly: +0.2°F+0.2JAugust: -0.0°F-0.0ASeptember: +0.1°F+0.1SOctober: -0.0°F-0.0ONovember: -0.2°F-0.2NDecember: -0.1°F-0.1D

February has cooled the most — about 0.7°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 Moffett Fed Airfield (NOAA GHCN station USW00023244), about 4 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →