On the backdrop of climate change, changes in climatic zones of jujube planting in Xinjiang was studied. Of significant importance were adaptation to climate change, full rational use of agro-climatic resources, scientific planting of Xinjiang jujube, development planning and promotion of sustainable/stable development of Xinjiang jujube industry. Using long-term (1961-2012) climate data from 101 meteorological stations in Xinjiang region along with linear regression, cumulative anomaly, t-test and mixed spatial interpolation analyses in ArcGIS environment, the study analyzed the fundamental characteristics of spatio-temporal changes in ≥10 ℃ cumulative temperature, extreme minimum temperature in winter and mean temperature for June-July. The impact of climate change on jujube planting zones was studied in relation to climate division index of jujube planting zones. The results showed that spatial distributions of ≥10 ℃ cumulative temperature, extreme minimum temperature and mean temperature for June-July obviously varied from place to place in Xinjiang. Generally, these factors were higher in the south than in the north and in the plain/basin than in the mountain regions of jujube planting zones in Xinjiang. On the backdrop of global warming in the last 52 years, ≥10 ℃ cumulative temperature, extreme minimum temperature and mean temperature for June-July showed significantly increasing trends by the tendency rate of 62.22 ℃?d?10a~(-1), 0.551 ℃?10a~(-1) and 0.221 ℃?10a~(-1), respectively, and with significant changes in 1997, 1982 and 1994. With this effect, suitable planting areas of jujube increased by 1.2 * 10~5 km~2 after 1997, representing 7.3 percentage points increase in total area ratio. The areas with sub-suitability for planting jujube decreased by 4.0 * 10~4 km~2, representing 2.4 percentage points decrease in total area ratio. Also areas classified as unsuitable for planting jujube decreased by and 8.0*10~4 km~2, representing 4.9 percentage points decrease in total area ratio. While climate change increased the areas suitable for planting jujube, it decreased sub-suitable area and unsuitable areas for planting jujube in Xinjiang. This was critical for enhancing the development of jujube industry in Xinjiang.