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Has the climate in Spruce Grove changed?

Spruce Grove has warmed about 2.7°F between 1971 and 2020.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Spruce Grove'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? Spruce Grove'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
+2.0°F
1970s
37.5°F
Recent
39.5°F
A steady upward drift

Spruce Grove's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2020.

33°35°37°39°41°43°1971: 35.9°F1972: 34.5°F1973: 36.4°F1974: 37.0°F1975: 36.3°F1976: 40.4°F1977: 38.8°F1978: 37.1°F1979: 36.6°F1980: 37.8°F1981: 41.9°F1982: 34.4°F1983: 37.5°F1984: 38.0°F1985: 37.2°F1986: 39.8°F1987: 43.0°F1988: 40.9°F1989: 38.0°F1990: 38.5°F1991: 39.8°F1992: 39.8°F1993: 39.5°F1994: 38.2°F1995: 37.3°F1996: 34.2°F1997: 39.7°F1998: 40.7°F1999: 40.5°F2000: 38.7°F2001: 41.1°F2002: 38.6°F2003: 39.0°F2004: 39.3°F2005: 40.8°F2006: 40.9°F2007: 39.4°F2008: 39.1°F2009: 37.7°F2010: 39.2°F2011: 38.8°F2012: 38.9°F2013: 39.2°F2014: 38.7°F2015: 41.8°F2016: 41.8°F2017: 40.1°F2018: 39.0°F2019: 37.9°F2020: 39.0°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102020
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°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°January: +3.3°F+3.3JFebruary: +1.7°F+1.7FMarch: -0.2°F-0.2MApril: -0.6°F-0.6AMay: +0.1°F+0.1MJune: +0.6°F+0.6JJuly: +1.5°F+1.5JAugust: +1.1°F+1.1ASeptember: +1.5°F+1.5SOctober: -0.8°F-0.8ONovember: +1.8°F+1.8NDecember: +2.0°F+2.0D

January has warmed the most — about 3.3°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Edmonton Stony Plain, a weather station, about 13 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →