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Has the climate in Woodstock changed?

Woodstock has warmed about 1.8°F between 1971 and 2016.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Woodstock's official daily weather records, 1971–2016. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Woodstock'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
+1.5°F
1970s
45.2°F
Recent
46.7°F
A steady upward drift

Woodstock's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2016.

38°40°42°44°46°48°50°52°1971: 46.2°F1972: 44.1°F1973: 47.3°F1974: 45.3°F1975: 46.6°F1976: 43.9°F1977: 45.6°F1978: 43.6°F1979: 44.5°F1980: 44.1°F1981: 45.2°F1982: 45.2°F1983: 46.1°F1984: 45.5°F1985: 45.5°F1986: 45.8°F1987: 47.7°F1988: 46.3°F1989: 44.8°F1990: 47.4°F1991: 48.0°F1992: 44.8°F1993: 45.1°F1994: 45.3°F1995: 46.4°F1996: 45.1°F1997: 45.5°F1998: 50.3°F1999: 48.2°F2000: 46.4°F2001: 48.0°F2002: 47.6°F2003: 45.3°F2004: 46.1°F2005: 46.6°F2006: 48.9°F2007: 48.0°F2008: 46.7°F2009: 46.0°F2010: 49.0°F2011: 48.0°F2012: 50.4°F2013: 46.4°F2014: 44.4°F2015: 47.1°F2016: 39.8°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102016
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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: +1.2°F+1.2JFebruary: +1.5°F+1.5FMarch: +0.9°F+0.9MApril: +1.1°F+1.1AMay: +0.7°F+0.7MJune: +1.1°F+1.1JJuly: +0.6°F+0.6JAugust: +0.8°F+0.8ASeptember: +1.4°F+1.4SOctober: +1.1°F+1.1ONovember: +1.1°F+1.1NDecember: +2.2°F+2.2D

December has warmed the most — about 2.2°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 25 years of daily observations at Foldens, 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 →