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Has the climate in Los Banos changed?

Los Banos has warmed about 3.2°F since 1971.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Los Banos'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? Los Banos'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
13 fewer nights
1970s
24 / yr
Recent
11 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.1°F
1970s
62.0°F
Recent
64.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
10 more days
1970s
88 / yr
Recent
98 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
11 fewer days
1970s
49 / yr
Recent
38 / yr
Drier on average

Los Banos's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

59°61°63°65°67°1971: 60.0°F1972: 61.3°F1973: 62.2°F1974: 61.8°F1975: 60.2°F1976: 61.9°F1977: 62.5°F1978: 62.3°F1979: 62.5°F1980: 61.7°F1981: 63.7°F1982: 60.8°F1983: 62.3°F1984: 62.9°F1985: 61.7°F1986: 63.2°F1987: 62.2°F1988: 62.5°F1989: 61.9°F1990: 63.0°F1991: 62.5°F1992: 64.3°F1993: 62.6°F1994: 62.0°F1995: 63.7°F1996: 64.2°F1997: 64.2°F1998: 61.7°F1999: 61.9°F2000: 63.0°F2001: 64.0°F2002: 63.6°F2003: 64.2°F2004: 64.4°F2005: 63.1°F2006: 62.2°F2007: 63.0°F2008: 63.9°F2009: 63.6°F2010: 63.3°F2011: 61.9°F2012: 65.2°F2013: 63.9°F2014: 66.3°F2015: 64.9°F2016: 64.9°F2017: 64.9°F2018: 63.9°F2019: 63.5°F2020: 64.4°F2021: 64.4°F2023: 62.7°F2024: 65.2°F2025: 64.0°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 9 fewer freezing nights a year and about 7 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°January: +1.4°F+1.4JFebruary: +0.4°F+0.4FMarch: +1.1°F+1.1MApril: +0.5°F+0.5AMay: +1.0°F+1.0MJune: +1.2°F+1.2JJuly: +1.3°F+1.3JAugust: +1.3°F+1.3ASeptember: +1.7°F+1.7SOctober: +0.7°F+0.7ONovember: +1.3°F+1.3NDecember: +1.6°F+1.6D

September has warmed the most — about 1.7°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 Los Banos (NOAA GHCN station USC00045118), about 2 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →