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Has the climate in Fairfield changed?

Fairfield has warmed about 1.7°F since 1999.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Fairfield's official daily weather records, 1999–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Fairfield'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
2 more nights
1970s
18 / yr
Recent
20 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
+1.2°F
1970s
61.8°F
Recent
62.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
19 more days
1970s
81 / yr
Recent
100 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
23 fewer days
1970s
71 / yr
Recent
48 / yr
Drier on average

Fairfield's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1999 to 2025.

59°61°63°65°1999: 60.8°F2000: 61.5°F2001: 63.1°F2002: 61.8°F2003: 61.3°F2004: 61.5°F2005: 62.3°F2006: 61.8°F2007: 61.8°F2008: 63.2°F2009: 63.7°F2010: 61.5°F2011: 60.1°F2012: 61.5°F2013: 61.5°F2014: 63.6°F2015: 64.0°F2016: 63.2°F2017: 63.7°F2018: 62.5°F2019: 62.4°F2020: 63.7°F2021: 63.1°F2022: 63.6°F2023: 61.7°F2024: 63.6°F2025: 62.3°Flong-term trend19992000201020202025
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 26 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°+4.0°January: +0.9°F+0.9JFebruary: +2.0°F+2.0FMarch: +2.4°F+2.4MApril: +0.3°F+0.3AMay: +3.8°F+3.8MJune: +2.3°F+2.3JJuly: +2.9°F+2.9JAugust: +1.1°F+1.1ASeptember: +0.4°F+0.4SOctober: +0.9°F+0.9ONovember: +1.9°F+1.9NDecember: +1.1°F+1.1D

May has warmed the most — about 3.8°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 Vacaville/nut Tree AP Asos (NOAA GHCN station USW00093241), about 16 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →