Based on the meteorological data and shallow soil temperatures in Changshu during 1960—2009, the characteristics of climate change and their influences on soil temperature in the typical paddy planting area of Tai lake region were investigated. The analysis of the characteristics of climate change concluded linear trend analysis, abrupt change and anomalous year and decadal analysis. The results were as follows: 1) the air temperature raised significantly, while air pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and accumulative irradiation time reduced. The annual fluctuationes of precipitation and evaporation with positive or negative climatic trend rates in different seasons were intensively; 2) There were six meteorological elements with abrupt climate change in study area during 1960—2009，and abrupt climate change of average wind speed was the most obviously; 3) In the all meteorological elements, the climatic extreme year of mean relative humidity had the highest occurrence rate, while cumulative evaporation and average wind speed had the higher and lowest occurrence rate respectively; 4) With the increment of the depth of soil layer, the response to mean soil temperature from climate change became increasingly weak, while the response in autumn was the weakest. All the mean soil temperatures at 0 cm, 5 cm and 20 cm had significant correlations with the mean air temperature, mean maximum air temperature and mean minimum air temperature.