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Has the climate in Pittsburg changed?

Pittsburg has warmed about 0.5°F since 2011.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Pittsburg's official daily weather records, 2011–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Pittsburg's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in United States.

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
74 more nights
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
74 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
+0.8°F
1970s
58.0°F
Recent
58.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
48 more days
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
48 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
6 more days
1970s
98 / yr
Recent
104 / yr
Wetter on average

Pittsburg's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2011 to 2025.

54°56°58°60°62°2011: 58.4°F2012: 61.4°F2013: 56.1°F2014: 55.8°F2015: 58.3°F2016: 59.8°F2017: 59.3°F2018: 57.1°F2019: 56.7°F2020: 57.7°F2021: 58.4°F2022: 57.7°F2023: 59.5°F2024: 60.0°F2025: 58.5°Flong-term trend201120202025
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 30 more freezing nights a year and about 19 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.

-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°January: +0.3°F+0.3JFebruary: -0.2°F-0.2FMarch: -0.1°F-0.1MApril: -0.4°F-0.4AMay: -0.6°F-0.6MJune: +0.1°F+0.1JJuly: -0.4°F-0.4JAugust: -0.5°F-0.5ASeptember: -0.4°F-0.4SOctober: -1.4°F-1.4ONovember: -0.9°F-0.9NDecember: +0.1°F+0.1D

October has cooled the most — about 1.4°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 Pittsburg (NOAA GHCN station USC00146414), about 2 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →