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Has the climate in Colonia changed?

Colonia has warmed about 2.5°F since 1971.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Colonia's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Colonia's warming is broadly in line with other cities across Oceania — 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
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.8°F
1970s
80.9°F
Recent
82.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
44 more days
1970s
17 / yr
Recent
61 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
255 / yr
Recent
257 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Colonia's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

78°80°82°84°1971: 80.6°F1972: 81.0°F1973: 81.1°F1974: 80.6°F1975: 80.3°F1976: 80.0°F1977: 80.9°F1978: 80.8°F1979: 80.8°F1980: 80.9°F1981: 81.0°F1982: 80.7°F1983: 81.0°F1984: 81.4°F1985: 81.2°F1986: 81.4°F1987: 81.5°F1988: 81.5°F1989: 80.8°F1990: 80.2°F1991: 80.0°F1992: 80.6°F1993: 80.0°F1994: 80.6°F1995: 80.6°F1996: 80.6°F1997: 80.8°F1998: 80.9°F1999: 79.8°F2000: 80.4°F2001: 80.7°F2002: 80.0°F2003: 80.4°F2004: 81.2°F2005: 80.6°F2006: 80.4°F2007: 80.5°F2008: 81.5°F2009: 82.8°F2010: 83.5°F2011: 83.0°F2012: 83.3°F2013: 83.6°F2014: 83.0°F2015: 82.2°F2016: 83.7°F2017: 82.3°F2018: 82.9°F2019: 83.2°F2020: 82.6°F2021: 82.0°F2022: 81.9°F2023: 82.4°F2024: 83.0°F2025: 82.5°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
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 42 more 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°January: +0.9°F+0.9JFebruary: +0.7°F+0.7FMarch: +0.6°F+0.6MApril: +0.7°F+0.7AMay: +0.8°F+0.8MJune: +1.1°F+1.1JJuly: +0.8°F+0.8JAugust: +0.6°F+0.6ASeptember: +0.7°F+0.7SOctober: +0.8°F+0.8ONovember: +0.8°F+0.8NDecember: +0.8°F+0.8D

June has warmed the most — about 1.1°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Yap Island Wso AP, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →