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Has the climate in Bazhong changed?

Bazhong has warmed about 2.6°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Bazhong's official daily weather records, 1971–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Bazhong's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in China.

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
about the same
1970s
3 / yr
Recent
3 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+2.1°F
1970s
63.3°F
Recent
65.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 fewer day
1970s
45 / yr
Recent
44 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
6 more days
1970s
130 / yr
Recent
136 / yr
Wetter on average

Bazhong's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

61°63°65°67°69°71°73°75°77°79°81°1971: 63.7°F1972: 64.0°F1973: 64.6°F1974: 62.9°F1975: 63.8°F1976: 62.5°F1977: 64.0°F1978: 64.9°F1979: 64.1°F1980: 63.3°F1981: 62.6°F1982: 62.5°F1983: 63.1°F1984: 62.3°F1985: 62.6°F1986: 62.1°F1987: 63.5°F1988: 62.6°F1989: 62.1°F1990: 63.8°F1991: 63.1°F1992: 62.2°F1993: 62.4°F1994: 63.9°F1995: 63.2°F1996: 62.1°F1997: 63.8°F1998: 64.5°F1999: 63.5°F2000: 63.1°F2001: 64.1°F2002: 64.3°F2003: 64.1°F2004: 63.5°F2005: 63.2°F2006: 65.4°F2007: 64.6°F2008: 63.5°F2009: 64.2°F2010: 79.9°F2011: 64.1°F2012: 63.9°F2013: 66.2°F2014: 64.3°F2015: 66.2°F2016: 64.3°F2017: 63.8°F2018: 63.7°F2019: 63.4°F2020: 63.8°F2021: 63.9°F2022: 65.6°F2023: 64.7°F2024: 66.9°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202024
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 4 fewer days above 90°F 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°January: +0.2°F+0.2JFebruary: +1.3°F+1.3FMarch: +1.2°F+1.2MApril: +1.1°F+1.1AMay: +0.5°F+0.5MJune: +0.3°F+0.3JJuly: +1.0°F+1.0JAugust: +0.0°F+0.0ASeptember: +1.2°F+1.2SOctober: +0.4°F+0.4ONovember: +0.5°F+0.5NDecember: -0.1°F-0.1D

February has warmed the most — about 1.3°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 Nanchong, a weather station, about 134 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →