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Has the climate in Auburn Hills changed?

Auburn Hills has warmed about 1.6°F since 1971.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Auburn Hills's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Auburn Hills's warming is broadly in line with other cities in United States — 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
46 fewer nights
1970s
142 / yr
Recent
96 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.7°F
1970s
48.1°F
Recent
49.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 fewer day
1970s
9 / yr
Recent
8 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
9 more days
1970s
126 / yr
Recent
135 / yr
Wetter on average

Auburn Hills's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

41°43°45°47°49°51°53°55°1971: 49.1°F1972: 46.5°F1973: 50.2°F1974: 48.0°F1975: 48.9°F1976: 47.1°F1977: 48.7°F1978: 47.5°F1979: 47.2°F1980: 46.0°F1981: 48.5°F1982: 48.3°F1983: 49.3°F1984: 48.8°F1985: 48.4°F1986: 49.4°F1987: 51.2°F1988: 48.9°F1989: 47.6°F1990: 50.2°F1991: 50.6°F1992: 47.5°F1993: 48.1°F1994: 48.7°F1995: 48.9°F1996: 49.4°F1997: 47.3°F2011: 42.9°F2012: 52.0°F2013: 48.0°F2014: 47.7°F2017: 53.7°F2018: 49.1°F2019: 48.8°F2020: 50.5°F2021: 50.9°F2022: 49.2°F2023: 51.1°F2024: 52.9°F2025: 50.0°Flong-term trend19711980199020202025
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 62 fewer freezing nights a year and about 5 fewer days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: +1.3°F+1.3JFebruary: +0.7°F+0.7FMarch: -0.0°F-0.0MApril: +0.1°F+0.1AMay: +0.3°F+0.3MJune: +0.5°F+0.5JJuly: +0.4°F+0.4JAugust: +0.8°F+0.8ASeptember: +0.8°F+0.8SOctober: +0.7°F+0.7ONovember: +0.6°F+0.6NDecember: +2.2°F+2.2D

December has warmed the most — about 2.2°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from NOAA's U.S. Climate Normals, measured at Pontiac Wwtp (NOAA GHCN station USC00206658), about 6 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →