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Has the climate in Farmington changed?

Farmington has warmed about 1.2°F since 1998.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Farmington's official daily weather records, 1998–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Farmington'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
1 fewer night
1970s
144 / yr
Recent
143 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+0.7°F
1970s
53.7°F
Recent
54.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
14 more days
1970s
64 / yr
Recent
78 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
13 fewer days
1970s
64 / yr
Recent
51 / yr
Drier on average

Farmington's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1998 to 2025.

51°53°55°57°1998: 53.0°F1999: 53.2°F2000: 54.5°F2001: 53.7°F2002: 53.2°F2003: 54.7°F2004: 53.2°F2005: 55.0°F2006: 53.3°F2007: 53.9°F2008: 52.3°F2009: 53.2°F2010: 52.9°F2011: 52.4°F2012: 54.7°F2013: 52.2°F2014: 53.8°F2015: 53.9°F2016: 53.9°F2017: 54.4°F2018: 53.8°F2019: 52.8°F2020: 54.5°F2021: 55.0°F2022: 54.3°F2023: 53.9°F2024: 55.5°F2025: 55.4°Flong-term trend19982000201020202025
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 37 more freezing nights a year and 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.

-3.5°-3.0°-2.5°-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°January: -3.4°F-3.4JFebruary: -1.2°F-1.2FMarch: +0.8°F+0.8MApril: +1.4°F+1.4AMay: +0.1°F+0.1MJune: +1.4°F+1.4JJuly: +0.4°F+0.4JAugust: +0.0°F+0.0ASeptember: -0.5°F-0.5SOctober: +0.4°F+0.4ONovember: +0.5°F+0.5NDecember: -0.1°F-0.1D

January has cooled the most — about 3.4°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 Farmington Four Corners Rgnl A (NOAA GHCN station USW00023090), about 2 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →