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Long-term temperature records show that India’s hill stations are warming up faster than towns, medium-sized cities and the big metropolises. For instance, Shimla, the summer capital of the British Raj, witnessed its hottest day in 170 years with a temperature recording of of 32.4°C on May 28, 2010. While the average warming for the entire nation has been 0.91°C over the whole of the last century, five hill stations -- Kodaikanal, Shimla, Darjeeling, Madikeri and Srinagar – have registered a spike of 0.4°C every decade since the 1970s. In other words, the hill stations have warmed up by 2°C in the last 40 years. These findings were part of a 2016 study published in the American Journal of Climate Change that monitored surface temperatures from 1901 to 2013 across 36 locations across India.