The current study deals with the effect of urban growth and urbanization on temperature trends over Lahore city of Pakistan. This research was conducted using mean monthly temperature data for the period of 1950-2017. The urban population growth, urban expansion, the increase of vehicles and factories as well as the expansion of built up area have influenced on the change of temperature in Lahore city. The annual trends of temperatures have been analyzed, and their statistical significances are calculated by the linear regression method. It has been deduced that there is a close relation between temperature change and urban growth. The findings are as follows; the mean minimum temperature rises greater than the maximum temperature at urban station and rural station. However, the maximum temperature is not rising positively and thus significantly at both stations. The findings show the fact that mean minimum temperature increasing more quickly after the 1995 due to the increase of urban development in Lahore city in which the built up area has increased from 66 km² to 740 km² since 1950. A massive increase in the numbers of vehicles have also influenced on the change of temperature in the city. However, the mean maximum temperature at rural station of Lahore has significant effect during 1973-1997.

Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Profile of case study area
 3. Data and Methodology
 4. Results and Discussion
  1) Temperature trend of urban area
  2) Temperature trend of rural area
  3) Effect of urbanization
 5. Conclusion
 References

• Sohail Abbas(Climate Research Institute, Konkuk University)
• Mian Sabir Hussain(Climate Research Institute, Konkuk University)
• Sujeong Im(Department of Geography, Konkuk University)
• Seungho Lee(Department of Geography, Konkuk University)
• Safdar Ali Shirazi(Department of Geography, Punjab University) Correspondence