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Has the climate in San Luis Río Colorado changed?

San Luis Río Colorado has warmed about 0.6°F since 1993.

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from San Luis Río Colorado's official daily weather records, 1993–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? San Luis Río Colorado'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
1 fewer night
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
1 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+0.5°F
1970s
74.1°F
Recent
74.6°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
30 fewer days
1970s
166 / yr
Recent
136 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
5 more days
1970s
10 / yr
Recent
15 / yr
Wetter on average

San Luis Río Colorado's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1993 to 2025.

70°72°74°76°78°80°1993: 75.7°F1994: 74.5°F1995: 75.5°F1998: 72.6°F1999: 72.4°F2000: 72.6°F2001: 75.6°F2002: 74.2°F2003: 75.4°F2004: 74.4°F2005: 74.7°F2006: 74.6°F2007: 73.0°F2008: 75.4°F2009: 74.1°F2010: 73.0°F2016: 76.7°F2017: 78.6°F2018: 75.1°F2019: 74.0°F2020: 76.4°F2021: 76.1°F2022: 75.1°F2023: 71.7°F2024: 74.1°F2025: 74.3°Flong-term trend19932000201020202025
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 20 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.

-3.0°-2.5°-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°January: -0.7°F-0.7JFebruary: -0.8°F-0.8FMarch: +0.5°F+0.5MApril: +0.8°F+0.8AMay: +0.4°F+0.4MJune: -0.6°F-0.6JJuly: -0.5°F-0.5JAugust: -1.9°F-1.9ASeptember: -2.9°F-2.9SOctober: -0.7°F-0.7ONovember: +1.2°F+1.2NDecember: -0.5°F-0.5D

September has cooled the most — about 2.9°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 Presa Morelos, about 29 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →