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Has the climate in Squamish changed?

Squamish has warmed about 1.3°F between 1982 and 2020.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Squamish's official daily weather records, 1982–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Squamish'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
+0.8°F
1970s
49.0°F
Recent
49.8°F
A steady upward drift

Squamish's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1982 to 2020.

42°44°46°48°50°52°54°1982: 53.0°F1983: 48.9°F1984: 47.1°F1985: 47.1°F1986: 49.3°F1987: 50.2°F1988: 48.9°F1989: 48.9°F1990: 48.9°F1991: 43.8°F1992: 51.9°F1993: 49.1°F1994: 49.7°F1995: 50.2°F1996: 47.6°F1997: 49.3°F1998: 50.6°F1999: 48.4°F2000: 48.5°F2001: 48.4°F2002: 48.9°F2003: 50.0°F2004: 50.9°F2005: 50.2°F2006: 49.7°F2007: 48.4°F2008: 48.0°F2009: 48.9°F2010: 50.0°F2011: 47.6°F2012: 49.1°F2013: 49.8°F2014: 51.1°F2015: 52.0°F2016: 50.9°F2017: 49.4°F2018: 50.7°F2019: 50.4°F2020: 49.9°Flong-term trend19821990200020102020
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 30 years of daily observations at Squamish Airport, a weather station, about 9 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →