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Has the climate in Tlapa de Comonfort changed?

Tlapa de Comonfort has cooled about 2.8°F between 1971 and 2012.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Tlapa de Comonfort's official daily weather records, 1971–2012. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Tlapa de Comonfort's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Mexico.

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
−2.3°F
1970s
77.5°F
Recent
75.2°F
A small downward drift
Hot days above 90°F
88 fewer days
1970s
190 / yr
Recent
102 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
78 / yr
Recent
78 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Tlapa de Comonfort's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2012.

72°74°76°78°80°1971: 77.7°F1972: 78.9°F1973: 77.8°F1974: 78.1°F1975: 78.5°F1976: 77.4°F1977: 76.9°F1978: 76.8°F1979: 77.2°F1980: 77.5°F1981: 76.4°F1982: 77.1°F1983: 74.8°F1984: 73.9°F1985: 74.3°F1986: 74.7°F1987: 75.0°F1988: 75.1°F1989: 73.7°F1990: 75.0°F1991: 76.4°F1992: 75.1°F1993: 76.7°F1994: 77.1°F1995: 76.5°F1996: 75.2°F1997: 76.0°F1998: 76.1°F1999: 74.7°F2000: 75.8°F2005: 73.5°F2006: 76.7°F2009: 75.1°F2010: 73.5°F2011: 74.1°F2012: 75.0°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102012
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 66 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.

-3.0°-2.5°-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°January: -0.3°F-0.3JFebruary: -0.6°F-0.6FMarch: -1.6°F-1.6MApril: -2.7°F-2.7AMay: -2.8°F-2.8MJune: -1.3°F-1.3JJuly: -0.5°F-0.5JAugust: -0.5°F-0.5ASeptember: -0.5°F-0.5SOctober: -0.5°F-0.5ONovember: -0.7°F-0.7NDecember: -0.1°F-0.1D

May has cooled the most — about 2.8°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 Igualita, about 11 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →