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Has the climate in Gap changed?

Gap has warmed about 4.4°F since 1971.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Gap'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? Gap's warming is broadly in line with other cities in France — 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
14 fewer nights
1970s
36 / yr
Recent
22 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.9°F
1970s
55.2°F
Recent
58.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
17 more days
1970s
14 / yr
Recent
31 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
4 fewer days
1970s
119 / yr
Recent
115 / yr
Drier on average

Gap's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

52°54°56°58°60°62°1971: 54.1°F1972: 54.7°F1973: 54.5°F1974: 55.5°F1975: 54.4°F1976: 54.8°F1977: 54.3°F1978: 53.6°F1979: 55.3°F1980: 53.9°F1981: 54.8°F1982: 57.4°F1983: 56.8°F1984: 54.0°F1985: 55.3°F1986: 56.5°F1987: 56.1°F1988: 57.2°F1989: 57.6°F1990: 58.1°F1991: 56.9°F1992: 56.0°F1993: 55.5°F1994: 57.8°F1995: 56.6°F1996: 55.4°F1997: 57.3°F1998: 56.7°F1999: 56.8°F2000: 57.4°F2001: 56.9°F2002: 57.3°F2003: 58.4°F2004: 56.6°F2005: 56.1°F2006: 57.4°F2007: 57.1°F2008: 56.2°F2009: 58.0°F2010: 55.7°F2011: 58.3°F2012: 57.8°F2013: 56.0°F2014: 58.6°F2015: 58.7°F2016: 57.6°F2017: 58.1°F2018: 58.9°F2019: 58.6°F2020: 58.9°F2021: 56.9°F2022: 60.3°F2023: 59.2°F2024: 58.4°F2025: 59.4°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 6 fewer freezing nights a year and about 9 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°January: +1.4°F+1.4JFebruary: +0.5°F+0.5FMarch: +1.8°F+1.8MApril: +2.6°F+2.6AMay: +2.0°F+2.0MJune: +2.9°F+2.9JJuly: +1.7°F+1.7JAugust: +1.7°F+1.7ASeptember: +0.9°F+0.9SOctober: +1.7°F+1.7ONovember: +1.9°F+1.9NDecember: +0.8°F+0.8D

June has warmed the most — about 2.9°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 Montelimar, a weather station, about 107 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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