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Has the climate in Ciudad Choluteca changed?

Ciudad Choluteca has warmed about 3.7°F between 2001 and 2024.

About 1.5°F per decade, measured from Ciudad Choluteca's official daily weather records, 2001–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Ciudad Choluteca's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Honduras.

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
+2.4°F
1970s
85.9°F
Recent
88.4°F
A steady upward drift

Ciudad Choluteca's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2001 to 2024.

82°84°86°88°90°2001: 85.7°F2002: 86.6°F2003: 84.8°F2004: 86.0°F2005: 86.9°F2006: 88.8°F2007: 84.9°F2008: 83.8°F2009: 85.2°F2010: 84.2°F2011: 85.0°F2012: 86.3°F2013: 86.3°F2014: 85.9°F2015: 88.7°F2016: 88.3°F2017: 87.6°F2018: 88.4°F2019: 89.5°F2020: 88.6°F2021: 88.4°F2022: 86.9°F2023: 88.7°F2024: 88.8°Flong-term trend2001201020202024
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 — 1991–2020 normals computed from 22 years of daily observations at Choluteca, a weather station, inside the city. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →