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Has the climate in Masuda changed?

Masuda has warmed about 1.9°F between 1995 and 2024.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Masuda's official daily weather records, 1995–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Masuda'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.

Average temperature
+1.2°F
1970s
62.2°F
Recent
63.4°F
A steady upward drift

Masuda's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1995 to 2024.

59°61°63°65°67°1995: 61.2°F1996: 60.9°F1997: 61.9°F1998: 63.4°F1999: 62.3°F2000: 62.3°F2001: 62.0°F2002: 62.6°F2003: 61.6°F2004: 63.5°F2005: 62.0°F2006: 62.0°F2007: 63.6°F2008: 62.3°F2009: 61.9°F2010: 62.3°F2011: 61.6°F2012: 61.4°F2013: 62.3°F2014: 61.3°F2015: 61.8°F2016: 62.9°F2017: 62.6°F2018: 62.7°F2019: 63.5°F2020: 63.3°F2021: 63.7°F2022: 63.5°F2023: 64.6°F2024: 65.0°Flong-term trend19952000201020202024
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.

Methodology & sources

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

How we build these numbers →