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Has the climate in Cajamarca changed?

Cajamarca has cooled about 0.7°F between 1973 and 2020.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Cajamarca's official daily weather records, 1973–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Cajamarca's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Peru.

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
5 fewer nights
1970s
6 / yr
Recent
1 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
−0.4°F
1970s
60.9°F
Recent
60.5°F
A small downward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
56 more days
1970s
52 / yr
Recent
108 / yr
Wetter on average

Cajamarca's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.

56°58°60°62°64°1973: 60.8°F1974: 60.5°F1975: 59.4°F1976: 59.9°F1977: 61.6°F1978: 61.9°F1979: 62.2°F1980: 62.5°F1982: 61.7°F1983: 62.9°F1984: 60.5°F2008: 59.0°F2010: 57.5°F2012: 58.8°F2013: 59.5°F2014: 59.7°F2015: 60.6°F2016: 60.9°F2017: 59.7°F2018: 59.4°F2019: 60.0°F2020: 62.9°Flong-term trend1973198020102020
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 — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from SENAMHI, Peru's national weather service, measured at Augusto Weberbauer, inside the city.

How we build these numbers →