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Has the climate in Maizuru changed?

Maizuru has warmed about 2.3°F between 1973 and 2020.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Maizuru's official daily weather records, 1973–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Maizuru'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
27 fewer nights
1970s
53 / yr
Recent
26 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.7°F
1970s
57.4°F
Recent
59.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
31 / yr
Recent
31 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
7 fewer days
1970s
168 / yr
Recent
161 / yr
Drier on average

Maizuru's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.

55°57°59°61°1973: 57.7°F1974: 56.9°F1975: 57.9°F1976: 56.6°F1977: 57.8°F1978: 58.5°F1979: 58.7°F1980: 56.5°F1981: 56.3°F1982: 57.4°F1983: 57.6°F1984: 56.5°F1985: 57.9°F1986: 56.6°F1987: 58.3°F1988: 56.6°F1989: 58.6°F1990: 59.8°F1991: 58.3°F1992: 57.9°F1993: 56.9°F1994: 59.2°F1995: 57.1°F1996: 57.0°F1997: 58.4°F1998: 60.0°F1999: 59.0°F2000: 58.6°F2001: 58.3°F2002: 59.0°F2003: 58.2°F2004: 60.1°F2006: 58.8°F2007: 59.6°F2008: 58.8°F2009: 58.7°F2010: 59.6°F2011: 58.7°F2012: 58.3°F2013: 58.8°F2014: 58.2°F2015: 59.2°F2016: 59.9°F2017: 58.2°F2018: 59.6°F2019: 59.9°F2020: 59.8°Flong-term trend197319801990200020102020
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 16 fewer freezing nights a year compared with the 1970s.

Methodology & sources

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

How we build these numbers →