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Joshua Tree National Park

Daily park-wide climate series from 1980 to 2025, reduced from DAYMET v4 + ERA5-Land over the real PAD-US 4.1 park boundary.

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Annual mean temperature · 1980–2025
Cooler than 1981–2010 baseline Near baseline Warmer than 1981–2010 baseline
19802025

Headline trends

Theil–Sen slope estimates with Mann–Kendall p-values. Trends marked ✓ are statistically significant at the 95% level.

Mean temperature
+0.057°F / yr significant
Total +2.55 °F since 1980 · p < 0.001
Maximum temperature
+0.043°F / yr significant
Total +1.92 °F since 1980 · p = 0.004
Minimum temperature
+0.058°F / yr significant
Total +2.62 °F since 1980 · p < 0.001
Precipitation
-0.96mm / yr² not sig.
Total -43.02 mm since 1980 · p = 0.218

Time series & trends

Every variable in the dataset, with its Theil–Sen slope and Mann–Kendall p-value. Click any row to open the annual time series, a 12-month rolling trend (long-term direction without the annual cycle), and a togglable seasonal climatology for three 15-year periods so the shift in seasonal pattern is visible.

Mean temperature +0.057 °F / yr +2.55 p < 0.001 sig.

Annual mean of daily mean near-surface temperature.

Annual mean temperature (°F) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Maximum temperature +0.043 °F / yr +1.92 p = 0.004 sig.

Annual mean of daily maximum near-surface temperature.

Annual maximum temperature (°F) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Minimum temperature +0.058 °F / yr +2.62 p < 0.001 sig.

Annual mean of daily minimum near-surface temperature.

Annual minimum temperature (°F) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Precipitation -0.96 mm / yr² -43.02 p = 0.218 not sig.

Annual total precipitation.

Annual precipitation (mm / yr) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Actual evapotranspiration -0.86 mm / yr² -38.50 p = 0.061 not sig.

Annual total actual evapotranspiration (ERA5-Land).

Annual actual evapotranspiration (mm / yr) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Potential evapotranspiration +3.37 mm / yr² +151.73 p < 0.001 sig.

Annual total potential evapotranspiration (ERA5-Land).

Annual potential evapotranspiration (mm / yr) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Snow cover -0.00 % / yr -0.03 p = 0.041 sig.

Mean daily snow-cover fraction.

Annual snow cover (%) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Snow depth (water-equivalent) -0.00 mm / yr -0.03 p = 0.029 sig.

Mean daily snow depth expressed as water equivalent.

Annual snow depth (water-equivalent) (mm) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Snowfall (water-equivalent) -0.02 mm / yr² -0.91 p = 0.016 sig.

Annual total water-equivalent snowfall.

Annual snowfall (water-equivalent) (mm / yr) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Snowmelt -0.02 mm / yr² -0.86 p = 0.028 sig.

Annual total snowmelt.

Annual snowmelt (mm / yr) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Shortwave radiation -0.00 W/m² / yr -0.13 p = 0.977 not sig.

Mean daily downwelling shortwave radiation.

Annual shortwave radiation (W/m²) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Snow-water equivalent 0.00 mm / yr 0.00 p = 0.331 not sig.

Mean daily snow-water equivalent.

Annual snow-water equivalent (mm) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Vapour pressure -0.0 Pa / yr -0.04 p = 1.000 not sig.

Mean daily near-surface water-vapour pressure.

Annual vapour pressure (Pa) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Wind speed +0.003 m/s / yr +0.12 p < 0.001 sig.

Mean daily 10-m wind speed.

Annual wind speed (m/s) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle

Download the data

Everything is open-licensed (MIT). The first two buttons fetch just this park; the third pulls the bulk daily CSV archive from Zenodo, which contains the raw daily series for all 63 parks (≈150 MB).

JSON · this park Summary JSON Annual + seasonal aggregates, MK / Theil–Sen trends, monthly decomposition, climate stripes. GeoJSON · this park Boundary GeoJSON PAD-US 4.1 proclamation polygon, dissolved, simplified to 50 m, in WGS84. Zenodo · all 63 parks Daily CSVs (bulk, ~150 MB) Raw 1980–2025 daily series for every park, gzipped. Use nps.fetch_daily("joshua-tree") if you only want this one — see the Data page.

Cite this park

Britton, A., & Pritchard, I. (2026). Joshua Tree National Park climate series, in NPS Open Climate Data v1.0.0 [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19823584