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Has the climate in Punta Arenas changed?

Punta Arenas has warmed about 1.1°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Punta Arenas's official daily weather records, 1991–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Punta Arenas's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Chile — 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.

Average temperature
+0.8°F
1970s
43.0°F
Recent
43.9°F
A steady upward drift

Punta Arenas's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

41°43°45°47°1991: 42.7°F1992: 42.9°F1993: 43.4°F1994: 42.9°F1995: 42.7°F1996: 43.5°F1997: 42.5°F1998: 44.5°F1999: 43.4°F2000: 42.4°F2001: 42.7°F2002: 42.2°F2003: 43.9°F2004: 45.3°F2005: 43.5°F2006: 44.1°F2007: 43.4°F2008: 44.1°F2009: 43.3°F2010: 43.1°F2011: 43.8°F2012: 43.2°F2013: 44.3°F2014: 43.2°F2015: 43.3°F2016: 44.6°F2017: 44.0°F2018: 43.4°F2019: 43.9°F2020: 44.2°F2021: 45.0°F2022: 44.2°F2023: 43.1°F2024: 43.5°Flong-term trend19912000201020202024
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.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from the WMO's CLINO 1991–2020 collection, measured at Carlosibanezaeropuertopuntaare, about 18 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →