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Has the climate in Tusayan changed?

Tusayan has warmed about 1.7°F since 1997.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Tusayan's official daily weather records, 1997–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Tusayan'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
10 fewer nights
1970s
225 / yr
Recent
215 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.0°F
1970s
46.6°F
Recent
47.6°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
11 more days
1970s
15 / yr
Recent
26 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
66 / yr
Recent
67 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Tusayan's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1997 to 2025.

44°46°48°50°1997: 45.9°F1998: 46.1°F1999: 46.7°F2000: 47.3°F2001: 46.3°F2002: 45.9°F2003: 47.7°F2004: 46.2°F2005: 47.0°F2006: 46.2°F2007: 47.0°F2008: 45.1°F2009: 45.8°F2010: 45.5°F2011: 45.7°F2012: 47.1°F2013: 45.6°F2014: 47.1°F2015: 47.6°F2016: 48.6°F2017: 48.4°F2018: 48.1°F2019: 45.9°F2020: 47.5°F2021: 47.7°F2022: 46.9°F2023: 46.7°F2024: 48.5°F2025: 48.5°Flong-term trend19972000201020202025
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 19 more freezing nights a year and about 4 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 24 years of daily observations at Grand Canyon NP AP, a weather station, about 4 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →