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Has the climate in Unzen changed?

Unzen has warmed about 1.6°F between 1992 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Unzen's official daily weather records, 1992–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Unzen'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
54.9°F
Recent
56.0°F
A steady upward drift

Unzen's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1992 to 2024.

52°54°56°58°1992: 54.7°F1993: 54.0°F1994: 55.8°F1995: 53.6°F1996: 54.2°F1997: 55.0°F1998: 57.1°F1999: 55.5°F2000: 55.5°F2001: 53.2°F2002: 55.6°F2003: 55.6°F2004: 55.8°F2005: 54.9°F2006: 56.2°F2007: 56.5°F2008: 55.5°F2009: 55.6°F2010: 55.5°F2011: 54.5°F2012: 54.4°F2013: 55.4°F2014: 54.8°F2015: 55.4°F2016: 56.9°F2017: 55.0°F2018: 55.9°F2019: 56.4°F2020: 56.3°F2021: 56.9°F2022: 55.8°F2024: 57.0°Flong-term trend19922000201020202024
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 Unzendake, about 4 km from the city centre.

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