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Has the climate in Osaka changed?
Osaka has warmed about 2.2°F between 1973 and 2020.
About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Osaka'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.
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.
Osaka's temperature, year by year
Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.
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 7 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 Osaka, about 2 km from the city centre.