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Has the climate in Atsugi changed?

Atsugi has warmed about 2.9°F between 1971 and 2020.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Atsugi's official daily weather records, 1971–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Atsugi's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Japan — 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
26 / yr
Recent
4 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.2°F
1970s
59.5°F
Recent
61.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
16 more days
1970s
12 / yr
Recent
28 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
116 / yr
Recent
118 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Atsugi's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2020.

56°58°60°62°64°1971: 59.4°F1972: 60.7°F1973: 60.0°F1974: 58.8°F1975: 59.7°F1976: 58.8°F1977: 60.0°F1978: 60.3°F1979: 61.5°F1980: 59.3°F1981: 59.2°F1982: 59.8°F1983: 59.1°F1984: 57.8°F1985: 59.5°F1986: 58.6°F1987: 60.6°F1988: 59.2°F1989: 60.7°F1990: 62.1°F1991: 60.8°F1992: 60.1°F1993: 59.3°F1994: 61.6°F1995: 60.5°F1996: 59.7°F1997: 61.2°F1998: 61.4°F1999: 62.0°F2000: 61.1°F2001: 58.3°F2002: 61.2°F2003: 60.1°F2004: 61.9°F2006: 60.8°F2007: 61.8°F2008: 61.0°F2009: 61.4°F2010: 61.9°F2011: 61.4°F2012: 60.6°F2013: 62.0°F2014: 61.2°F2015: 62.1°F2016: 62.4°F2017: 61.3°F2018: 62.9°F2019: 62.4°F2020: 63.0°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102020
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 12 fewer freezing nights a year and about 10 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from the Japan Meteorological Agency, measured at Ebina, about 2 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →