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Has the climate in Pijijiapan changed?

Pijijiapan has warmed about 1.2°F between 1971 and 2010.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Pijijiapan's official daily weather records, 1971–2010. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Pijijiapan'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
+0.7°F
1970s
82.0°F
Recent
82.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
34 fewer days
1970s
321 / yr
Recent
287 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
3 fewer days
1970s
124 / yr
Recent
121 / yr
Drier on average

Pijijiapan's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2010.

79°81°83°85°1971: 81.0°F1972: 81.5°F1973: 81.0°F1974: 80.7°F1975: 80.9°F1976: 81.5°F1977: 82.1°F1978: 82.5°F1979: 82.9°F1980: 83.2°F1981: 82.9°F1982: 82.7°F1983: 82.9°F1984: 82.3°F1985: 82.1°F1986: 82.4°F1987: 83.9°F1988: 83.2°F1989: 82.5°F1990: 83.3°F1991: 83.2°F1992: 82.8°F1993: 83.5°F1994: 82.7°F1995: 82.1°F1996: 81.4°F1997: 81.8°F1998: 82.9°F1999: 82.2°F2000: 82.0°F2001: 82.5°F2003: 83.3°F2004: 83.3°F2005: 83.4°F2006: 83.1°F2007: 82.7°F2008: 82.5°F2009: 82.9°F2010: 82.0°Flong-term trend19711980199020002010
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 34 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°January: +0.7°F+0.7JFebruary: +0.9°F+0.9FMarch: +0.7°F+0.7MApril: +0.4°F+0.4AMay: +0.1°F+0.1MJune: -0.0°F-0.0JJuly: +0.0°F+0.0JAugust: +0.2°F+0.2ASeptember: +0.2°F+0.2SOctober: -0.1°F-0.1ONovember: +0.0°F+0.0NDecember: +0.5°F+0.5D

February has warmed the most — about 0.9°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 Pijijiapan, about 1 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →