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Bedrock thermal expansion includes prominent seasonal (annual and semiannual) terms and intricate nonseasonal variations (high-frequency change and transient signals). However, the nonseasonal variations are usually ignored in geodetic studies due to defects in analytical solutions. In this study, we calculate the full-spectrum bedrock thermal expansion displacement using the skin temperature from the ERA5 reanalysis data set. The results show that the nonseasonal variations of bedrock thermal expansion, with a range (maximum minus minimum) reaching 3 mm in some regions, can be observed by geodetic instruments and thus cannot be ignored. Moreover, the mean power of the nonseasonal variations accounts for 20% of the entire thermal expansion. Without considering the influence of the nonseasonal variations, this "noise" would remain in the original observations and contaminate related geophysical inversions.