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Has the climate in Santa Fe changed?

Santa Fe has warmed about 1.5°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Santa Fe's official daily weather records, 1971–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Santa Fe's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Argentina — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
7 fewer nights
1970s
10 / yr
Recent
3 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.0°F
1970s
64.6°F
Recent
65.6°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
2 fewer days
1970s
35 / yr
Recent
33 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
33 more days
1970s
34 / yr
Recent
67 / yr
Wetter on average

Santa Fe's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

62°64°66°68°1971: 64.3°F1972: 65.1°F1973: 64.7°F1974: 65.2°F1975: 64.7°F1976: 63.6°F1977: 64.3°F1978: 63.2°F1979: 63.2°F1980: 64.8°F1981: 64.9°F1982: 65.5°F1983: 64.3°F1984: 64.3°F1985: 65.5°F1986: 65.5°F1987: 65.1°F1988: 63.8°F1989: 65.6°F1990: 64.5°F1991: 64.8°F1992: 63.9°F1993: 64.3°F1994: 65.8°F1995: 64.7°F1996: 65.3°F1997: 66.5°F1998: 64.0°F1999: 64.6°F2000: 64.4°F2001: 65.8°F2002: 65.6°F2003: 65.1°F2004: 65.3°F2005: 64.6°F2006: 66.1°F2007: 63.7°F2008: 66.2°F2010: 65.3°F2011: 64.7°F2012: 66.0°F2014: 65.7°F2015: 66.2°F2016: 64.4°F2017: 66.0°F2018: 65.8°F2019: 65.3°F2020: 65.7°F2021: 65.7°F2022: 65.1°F2023: 67.5°F2024: 65.9°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202024
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 4 fewer freezing nights a year and about 2 fewer days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +0.7°F+0.7JFebruary: +0.9°F+0.9FMarch: +1.6°F+1.6MApril: +1.3°F+1.3AMay: +0.5°F+0.5MJune: +0.8°F+0.8JJuly: +0.8°F+0.8JAugust: +1.4°F+1.4ASeptember: +1.3°F+1.3SOctober: +1.2°F+1.2ONovember: +0.8°F+0.8NDecember: +0.6°F+0.6D

March has warmed the most — about 1.6°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from the WMO's CLINO 1991–2020 collection, measured at Sauce_viejo_aero, about 11 km from the city centre.

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