This article reports on studies of chlorine-substituted MAPbI 3 using combined temperature-dependent X-ray diffraction (XRD) synchrotron and Pb-L3 edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) to analyze the anharmonicity of the lead−halide bond. The EXAFS parameters were described in the orthorhombic phase by an Einstein or T 2 -type behavior, which was then compared with the experimental EXAFS parameters of the tetragonal/cubic phase. In the orthorhombic phase, it was observed that the asymmetry of the pair distribution function (cumulant C 3 ) in MAPbCl 3 is much lower than in MAPbI 3 . Compared with the behavior in the orthorhombic phase, the anharmonicity changed after the phase transition to the roomtemperature phase, with MAPbCl 3 showing an increased anharmonicity and MAPbI 3 a decrease. The differences between MAPbI 3 and 2% chlorine substitution were small, both in the orthorhombic and tetragonal phases. By determining the structural parameters required to convert the effective force constants k 0 and k 3 resulting from the EXAFS analysis into the Morse potential parameters α and D, we could establish that our results agree with other experimental findings. Moreover, using XRD, we found that the [PbX 6 ] octahedra appear to shrink slightly in the tetragonal phase of MAPbI 3 and MAPbI 2.94 Cl 0.06 , toward increasing temperatures. This behavior in the tetragonal phase is related to the dominant negative tension effects observed by EXAFS.