Climate is a key driver of biodiversity, and thus the abundances and distributions of species are to some extent matched to climatic variation. However, the ability of climate to predict abundance and distribution (i.e., climate matching) can vary among populations and species, as well as through time. I will present three case studies showing that the magnitude of climate matching can vary (1) among populations across the distributional range of a bird species, (2) among bird species depending on their traits, and (3) through time as climate changes.