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Has the climate in Takikawa changed?

Takikawa has warmed about 2.1°F between 1971 and 2020.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Takikawa'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? Takikawa'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
74 fewer nights
1970s
154 / yr
Recent
80 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.8°F
1970s
45.0°F
Recent
46.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
2 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
7 more days
1970s
168 / yr
Recent
175 / yr
Wetter on average

Takikawa's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2020.

40°42°44°46°48°50°1971: 44.7°F1972: 46.6°F1973: 46.4°F1974: 45.1°F1975: 45.5°F1976: 44.4°F1977: 44.3°F1978: 44.8°F1979: 45.5°F1980: 44.5°F1981: 44.2°F1982: 45.8°F1983: 44.5°F1984: 44.5°F1985: 45.0°F1986: 44.1°F1987: 45.1°F1988: 45.1°F1989: 47.3°F1992: 45.6°F1993: 45.5°F1994: 46.9°F1995: 46.4°F1996: 44.8°F1997: 46.0°F1998: 45.6°F1999: 46.9°F2000: 45.9°F2001: 41.5°F2002: 46.1°F2003: 45.4°F2004: 46.4°F2006: 46.2°F2007: 46.7°F2008: 46.8°F2009: 46.8°F2010: 47.6°F2011: 46.5°F2012: 46.4°F2013: 46.3°F2014: 46.4°F2015: 47.8°F2016: 46.5°F2017: 46.1°F2018: 47.0°F2019: 47.2°F2020: 48.3°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 44 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 Takikawa, about 3 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →