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Has the climate in Bishop changed?

Bishop has warmed about 2.3°F since 1971.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Bishop'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? Bishop'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
5 fewer nights
1970s
10 / yr
Recent
5 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.6°F
1970s
72.3°F
Recent
73.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
23 more days
1970s
131 / yr
Recent
154 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
14 more days
1970s
61 / yr
Recent
75 / yr
Wetter on average

Bishop's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

69°71°73°75°77°1971: 74.6°F1972: 71.6°F1973: 71.0°F1974: 72.7°F1975: 72.4°F1976: 70.1°F1977: 72.8°F1978: 71.0°F1979: 70.5°F1980: 72.9°F1981: 72.3°F1982: 73.1°F1983: 71.8°F1984: 73.9°F1985: 72.7°F1986: 73.3°F1987: 72.7°F1988: 73.3°F1989: 72.1°F1990: 74.4°F1991: 73.4°F1996: 75.4°F1997: 71.8°F1998: 75.6°F1999: 74.6°F2000: 74.1°F2001: 73.4°F2002: 73.3°F2003: 73.0°F2004: 72.9°F2005: 73.4°F2006: 76.5°F2007: 71.7°F2008: 72.4°F2009: 73.2°F2010: 71.3°F2011: 73.5°F2012: 75.2°F2013: 73.0°F2014: 72.2°F2015: 72.7°F2016: 74.8°F2017: 75.4°F2018: 73.4°F2019: 73.7°F2020: 74.6°F2021: 73.9°F2022: 73.4°F2023: 75.8°F2024: 75.7°F2025: 75.4°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
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 4 fewer freezing nights a year and about 5 more 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.

-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +0.4°F+0.4JFebruary: +0.8°F+0.8FMarch: -0.5°F-0.5MApril: +0.7°F+0.7AMay: +0.8°F+0.8MJune: +1.5°F+1.5JJuly: +1.0°F+1.0JAugust: +1.6°F+1.6ASeptember: +0.6°F+0.6SOctober: +0.9°F+0.9ONovember: +0.5°F+0.5NDecember: +0.8°F+0.8D

August has warmed the most — about 1.6°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 Kingsville (NOAA GHCN station USC00414810), about 8 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →