Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport - official urban climate station

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport hosts the official NOAA climate station for the Phoenix metropolitan area and provides the long-term temperature and precipitation records used in climate normals. Those records show Phoenix among the U.S. cities with the largest number of days reaching 100°F or higher, a pattern amplified by the urban basin setting. Because the station is within the central urban area, its observations capture city-scale heat characteristics compared with nearby rural stations.