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Has the climate in Itoshima changed?

Itoshima has warmed about 3.1°F between 1971 and 2020.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Itoshima'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? Itoshima'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
11 fewer nights
1970s
14 / yr
Recent
3 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.2°F
1970s
61.4°F
Recent
63.6°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
5 more days
1970s
30 / yr
Recent
35 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
132 / yr
Recent
130 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Itoshima's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2020.

59°61°63°65°1971: 61.3°F1972: 60.9°F1973: 61.8°F1974: 60.8°F1975: 62.2°F1976: 60.1°F1977: 61.5°F1978: 62.5°F1979: 62.3°F1980: 60.1°F1981: 61.1°F1982: 61.6°F1983: 62.0°F1984: 61.0°F1985: 62.0°F1986: 60.9°F1987: 62.2°F1988: 61.4°F1989: 62.7°F1990: 63.8°F1991: 62.0°F1992: 62.2°F1993: 61.4°F1994: 63.7°F1995: 61.7°F1996: 62.0°F1997: 62.9°F1998: 64.6°F1999: 62.9°F2000: 63.1°F2001: 62.9°F2002: 63.3°F2003: 63.0°F2004: 64.0°F2006: 63.1°F2007: 64.4°F2008: 62.9°F2009: 63.2°F2010: 63.5°F2011: 62.8°F2012: 62.6°F2013: 64.0°F2014: 62.8°F2015: 63.3°F2016: 64.5°F2017: 63.7°F2018: 64.0°F2019: 64.4°F2020: 64.2°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 6 fewer freezing nights a year and about 3 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 Maebaru, about 2 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →