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Has the climate in Cody changed?

Cody has warmed about 2.6°F since 1971.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Cody'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? Cody'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
19 fewer nights
1970s
166 / yr
Recent
147 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.7°F
1970s
45.7°F
Recent
47.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
5 more days
1970s
17 / yr
Recent
22 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
10 more days
1970s
66 / yr
Recent
76 / yr
Wetter on average

Cody's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

42°44°46°48°50°1971: 45.4°F1972: 44.9°F1973: 45.7°F1974: 47.1°F1975: 44.3°F1976: 46.9°F1977: 46.9°F1978: 43.9°F1979: 45.2°F1980: 46.5°F1981: 47.6°F1982: 43.9°F1983: 45.3°F1984: 45.8°F1985: 43.7°F1988: 48.5°F1989: 45.5°F1990: 47.4°F1991: 46.6°F1992: 47.1°F1993: 44.1°F1994: 48.1°F1995: 46.5°F1996: 44.8°F1997: 46.3°F1998: 47.9°F1999: 49.3°F2000: 47.4°F2001: 48.8°F2002: 46.0°F2003: 48.3°F2004: 48.1°F2005: 48.1°F2006: 49.4°F2007: 49.0°F2008: 46.8°F2009: 44.5°F2010: 49.9°F2011: 46.1°F2012: 49.8°F2013: 46.8°F2014: 45.4°F2015: 49.0°F2016: 49.1°F2017: 47.5°F2018: 46.4°F2019: 44.3°F2020: 47.9°F2021: 48.2°F2022: 46.4°F2023: 47.3°F2024: 49.1°F2025: 48.5°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 5 fewer freezing nights a year and about 3 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°January: +3.4°F+3.4JFebruary: -0.4°F-0.4FMarch: +1.2°F+1.2MApril: +0.0°F+0.0AMay: +0.2°F+0.2MJune: +0.3°F+0.3JJuly: +2.1°F+2.1JAugust: +1.6°F+1.6ASeptember: +2.1°F+2.1SOctober: -0.5°F-0.5ONovember: +1.2°F+1.2NDecember: +1.6°F+1.6D

January has warmed the most — about 3.4°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Cody, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →