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Has the climate in Chiclayo changed?

Chiclayo has warmed about 1.4°F between 1973 and 2020.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Chiclayo'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? Chiclayo's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Peru — 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
70.4°F
Recent
71.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
4 more days
1970s
17 / yr
Recent
21 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
7 more days
1970s
6 / yr
Recent
13 / yr
Wetter on average

Chiclayo's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.

67°69°71°73°75°77°1973: 68.6°F1974: 69.0°F1975: 68.8°F1976: 71.8°F1977: 70.8°F1978: 69.5°F1979: 70.5°F1980: 70.4°F1981: 68.1°F1982: 71.3°F1983: 76.8°F1984: 70.1°F1985: 68.1°F1986: 69.5°F1987: 72.7°F1988: 68.4°F1989: 69.2°F1993: 71.6°F1994: 70.3°F1995: 69.0°F1996: 68.5°F1997: 76.7°F1998: 74.3°F1999: 69.9°F2000: 70.4°F2001: 69.8°F2002: 72.6°F2003: 71.1°F2004: 71.3°F2005: 70.9°F2006: 72.5°F2007: 69.9°F2008: 71.4°F2009: 71.4°F2010: 69.8°F2011: 70.1°F2012: 72.3°F2013: 69.1°F2014: 71.6°F2015: 73.0°F2016: 71.7°F2017: 71.4°F2018: 69.6°F2019: 70.6°F2020: 72.5°Flong-term trend19731980200020102020
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 4 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°July: +0.4°F+0.4J

July has warmed the most — about 0.4°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from SENAMHI, Peru's national weather service, measured at Lambayeque, about 7 km from the city centre.

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