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Has the climate in Sakata changed?

Sakata has warmed about 2°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Sakata's official daily weather records, 1991–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Sakata'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
+1.3°F
1970s
55.1°F
Recent
56.4°F
A steady upward drift

Sakata's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

50°52°54°56°58°1991: 55.1°F1992: 54.8°F1993: 53.8°F1994: 55.8°F1995: 54.7°F1996: 53.7°F1997: 55.2°F1998: 55.9°F1999: 56.1°F2000: 55.6°F2001: 51.9°F2002: 55.5°F2003: 55.2°F2004: 55.8°F2006: 54.9°F2007: 56.1°F2008: 55.6°F2009: 55.4°F2010: 56.1°F2011: 55.0°F2012: 55.4°F2013: 55.3°F2014: 55.2°F2015: 56.4°F2016: 56.4°F2017: 55.0°F2018: 55.9°F2019: 56.8°F2020: 57.4°F2021: 57.4°F2022: 56.4°F2024: 56.6°Flong-term trend19912000201020202024
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 Sakata, about 1 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →