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Has the climate in Kanegusuku changed?

Kanegusuku has warmed about 2.6°F between 1971 and 2020.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Kanegusuku'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? Kanegusuku'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
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.8°F
1970s
72.4°F
Recent
74.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
23 more days
1970s
12 / yr
Recent
35 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
4 more days
1970s
144 / yr
Recent
148 / yr
Wetter on average

Kanegusuku's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2020.

70°72°74°76°1971: 72.7°F1972: 73.1°F1973: 72.0°F1974: 72.0°F1975: 72.0°F1976: 71.7°F1977: 72.9°F1978: 71.8°F1979: 72.3°F1980: 72.6°F1981: 72.1°F1982: 72.7°F1983: 73.2°F1984: 72.2°F1985: 72.5°F1986: 72.0°F1987: 73.5°F1988: 73.4°F1989: 73.0°F1990: 73.5°F1991: 74.2°F1992: 73.2°F1993: 73.6°F1994: 73.5°F1995: 72.8°F1996: 73.0°F1997: 73.4°F1998: 75.9°F1999: 74.2°F2000: 73.3°F2001: 74.2°F2002: 73.7°F2003: 74.1°F2004: 74.0°F2005: 73.5°F2006: 74.4°F2007: 74.3°F2008: 74.1°F2009: 74.2°F2010: 73.7°F2011: 73.2°F2012: 73.4°F2013: 73.9°F2014: 73.6°F2015: 74.5°F2016: 75.4°F2017: 74.5°F2018: 74.3°F2019: 75.0°F2020: 74.8°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 15 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°January: +1.1°F+1.1JFebruary: +1.5°F+1.5FMarch: +1.2°F+1.2MApril: +0.7°F+0.7AMay: +1.2°F+1.2MJune: +1.2°F+1.2JJuly: +1.1°F+1.1JAugust: +1.4°F+1.4ASeptember: +1.1°F+1.1SOctober: +1.3°F+1.3ONovember: +1.3°F+1.3NDecember: +1.4°F+1.4D

February has warmed the most — about 1.5°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from the Japan Meteorological Agency, measured at Naha, about 4 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →