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Has the climate in San Salvador de Jujuy changed?

How San Salvador de Jujuy's climate has changed

About 0.1°F per decade, measured from San Salvador de Jujuy'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? San Salvador de Jujuy's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Argentina.

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
5 / yr
Recent
5 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+0.3°F
1970s
66.4°F
Recent
66.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
25 more days
1970s
17 / yr
Recent
42 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
27 more days
1970s
45 / yr
Recent
72 / yr
Wetter on average

San Salvador de Jujuy's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.

63°65°67°69°1973: 67.3°F1974: 67.5°F1975: 68.9°F1976: 66.5°F1977: 66.0°F1978: 65.8°F1979: 65.2°F1980: 65.9°F1981: 66.0°F1982: 66.2°F1983: 65.7°F1984: 64.8°F1985: 66.1°F1986: 67.3°F1987: 67.9°F1988: 65.6°F1989: 66.4°F1990: 65.6°F1991: 65.7°F1992: 64.1°F1993: 64.0°F1994: 66.3°F1995: 65.9°F1996: 66.2°F1997: 67.8°F1998: 66.1°F1999: 64.9°F2000: 65.7°F2001: 66.7°F2002: 67.3°F2003: 67.0°F2004: 66.4°F2005: 66.7°F2006: 67.0°F2007: 65.0°F2008: 65.6°F2009: 66.6°F2010: 66.7°F2011: 66.5°F2012: 67.9°F2013: 67.9°F2014: 67.3°F2015: 66.9°F2016: 65.7°F2017: 67.3°F2018: 66.2°F2019: 66.2°F2020: 67.4°Flong-term trend197319801990200020102020
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 15 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from the WMO's CLINO 1991–2020 collection, measured at Jujuy_u_n, about 4 km from the city centre.

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