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Has the climate in Chilpancingo changed?

Chilpancingo has warmed about 0.8°F between 1990 and 2017.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Chilpancingo's official daily weather records, 1990–2017. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Chilpancingo's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Mexico — 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
+1.0°F
1970s
71.6°F
Recent
72.6°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
24 more days
1970s
74 / yr
Recent
98 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
6 fewer days
1970s
86 / yr
Recent
80 / yr
Drier on average

Chilpancingo's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1990 to 2017.

69°71°73°75°1990: 71.1°F1991: 71.9°F1992: 71.0°F1993: 71.8°F1994: 72.3°F1996: 71.7°F1997: 72.5°F1998: 72.3°F2005: 72.6°F2006: 70.9°F2007: 71.8°F2008: 71.4°F2009: 72.9°F2011: 73.0°F2012: 72.8°F2013: 72.2°F2014: 72.3°F2015: 73.2°F2016: 72.8°F2017: 72.4°Flong-term trend19902017
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 37 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: -0.1°F-0.1JFebruary: +1.1°F+1.1FMarch: +2.2°F+2.2MApril: +2.3°F+2.3AMay: +1.8°F+1.8MJune: +2.0°F+2.0JJuly: +1.0°F+1.0JAugust: +1.1°F+1.1ASeptember: +0.6°F+0.6SOctober: +2.4°F+2.4ONovember: +1.0°F+1.0NDecember: -0.2°F-0.2D

October has warmed the most — about 2.4°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from CONAGUA / SMN, Mexico's national weather service, measured at Chilpancingo (smn), inside the city.

How we build these numbers →