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Has the climate in Ōmihachiman changed?

Ōmihachiman has warmed about 2.2°F between 1971 and 2020.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Ōmihachiman'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? Ōmihachiman'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
32 fewer nights
1970s
52 / yr
Recent
20 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.6°F
1970s
57.9°F
Recent
59.5°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
12 more days
1970s
22 / yr
Recent
34 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
13 fewer days
1970s
157 / yr
Recent
144 / yr
Drier on average

Ōmihachiman's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2020.

55°57°59°61°1971: 57.2°F1972: 58.5°F1973: 57.9°F1974: 57.2°F1975: 58.2°F1976: 57.0°F1977: 58.2°F1978: 58.8°F1979: 59.6°F1980: 57.2°F1981: 56.6°F1982: 58.0°F1983: 58.6°F1984: 57.4°F1985: 58.6°F1986: 57.4°F1987: 58.9°F1988: 57.5°F1989: 59.0°F1993: 58.7°F1994: 59.8°F1995: 57.5°F1996: 57.1°F1997: 58.5°F1998: 60.5°F1999: 59.3°F2000: 59.1°F2001: 56.1°F2002: 59.2°F2003: 58.5°F2004: 59.7°F2006: 58.6°F2007: 59.5°F2008: 59.0°F2009: 59.1°F2010: 59.7°F2011: 59.1°F2012: 58.8°F2013: 59.4°F2014: 58.9°F2015: 60.0°F2016: 60.6°F2017: 58.8°F2018: 60.2°F2019: 60.5°F2020: 61.0°Flong-term trend19711980200020102020
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 18 fewer freezing nights a year and about 8 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 Higashiomi, about 11 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →