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Has the climate in Garmisch-Partenkirchen changed?

Garmisch-Partenkirchen has warmed about 3.8°F since 1971.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Garmisch-Partenkirchen'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? Garmisch-Partenkirchen's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Germany — 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.

Freezing nights
22 fewer nights
1970s
107 / yr
Recent
85 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.6°F
1970s
47.3°F
Recent
49.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
10 more days
1970s
3 / yr
Recent
13 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
153 / yr
Recent
154 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Garmisch-Partenkirchen's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

44°46°48°50°52°54°1971: 48.3°F1972: 48.8°F1973: 46.6°F1974: 48.1°F1975: 47.4°F1976: 47.4°F1977: 47.8°F1978: 45.6°F1979: 46.9°F1980: 45.8°F1981: 46.4°F1982: 48.0°F1983: 47.8°F1984: 46.4°F1985: 46.4°F1986: 47.7°F1987: 47.3°F1988: 48.7°F1989: 48.1°F1990: 48.4°F1991: 47.3°F1992: 48.4°F1993: 47.9°F1994: 50.3°F1995: 47.5°F1996: 46.9°F1997: 48.6°F1998: 48.1°F1999: 47.9°F2000: 49.5°F2001: 48.2°F2002: 49.7°F2003: 49.0°F2004: 47.8°F2005: 49.7°F2006: 47.9°F2007: 49.5°F2008: 49.1°F2009: 48.9°F2010: 47.8°F2011: 49.4°F2012: 48.5°F2013: 48.7°F2014: 50.9°F2015: 49.9°F2016: 49.6°F2017: 49.1°F2018: 51.2°F2019: 50.4°F2020: 49.8°F2021: 48.6°F2022: 51.1°F2023: 51.3°F2024: 51.8°F2025: 52.0°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
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 10 fewer freezing nights a year and about 7 more 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°January: +1.1°F+1.1JFebruary: +1.0°F+1.0FMarch: +1.5°F+1.5MApril: +2.9°F+2.9AMay: +1.9°F+1.9MJune: +3.2°F+3.2JJuly: +2.4°F+2.4JAugust: +2.1°F+2.1ASeptember: +0.7°F+0.7SOctober: +1.1°F+1.1ONovember: +2.2°F+2.2NDecember: +1.2°F+1.2D

June has warmed the most — about 3.2°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 Innsbruck, a weather station, about 34 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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