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Has the climate in San Cristóbal changed?

San Cristóbal has warmed about 0.7°F between 1991 and 2015.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from San Cristóbal's official daily weather records, 1991–2015. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? San Cristóbal's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Venezuela.

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.

Average temperature
+0.8°F
1970s
81.5°F
Recent
82.3°F
A steady upward drift

San Cristóbal's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2015.

78°80°82°84°86°1991: 81.2°F1992: 81.9°F1993: 81.7°F1994: 80.8°F1995: 82.0°F1996: 81.4°F1997: 81.7°F2001: 81.8°F2004: 82.3°F2005: 82.1°F2006: 81.0°F2007: 81.8°F2008: 80.7°F2009: 81.1°F2010: 83.2°F2011: 79.9°F2012: 81.2°F2013: 82.1°F2014: 83.1°F2015: 84.1°Flong-term trend199120102015
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 — 1991–2020 normals computed from 24 years of daily observations at San Antonio Del Tachira / General Cipriano Castro Intl, a weather station, about 24 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →