Observations reveal a statistically significant warming across Arctic Fennoscandia: three reanalyses show a similar regional warming of smaller magnitude while the fourth is anomalous, even having a slight cooling in some areas. Spatial patterns of precipitation trends across the region differ markedly between the reanalyses, which have varying success at matching observations but generally fail to replicate sites with significant observed trends. There is a clear spatial mismatch between reanalyses and observations in regions of steep and complex orography.