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Has the climate in Cochabamba changed?

Cochabamba has warmed about 1.6°F between 1975 and 2024.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Cochabamba's official daily weather records, 1975–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Cochabamba's warming is broadly in line with other cities across South America — 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
16 fewer nights
1970s
17 / yr
Recent
1 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.2°F
1970s
63.2°F
Recent
64.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
17 more days
1970s
3 / yr
Recent
20 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
23 fewer days
1970s
52 / yr
Recent
29 / yr
Drier on average

Cochabamba's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1975 to 2024.

60°62°64°66°68°1975: 65.5°F1976: 65.6°F1977: 65.9°F1978: 63.8°F1979: 63.3°F1980: 63.0°F1981: 61.4°F1982: 61.4°F1983: 64.0°F1984: 61.6°F1985: 61.6°F1986: 61.5°F1987: 63.8°F1988: 63.4°F1989: 62.4°F1990: 62.7°F1991: 62.8°F1992: 62.9°F1993: 61.9°F1994: 62.9°F1995: 63.1°F1996: 62.9°F1997: 63.1°F1998: 65.1°F1999: 63.1°F2000: 63.2°F2001: 63.2°F2002: 64.3°F2003: 63.8°F2004: 63.5°F2005: 63.4°F2006: 63.0°F2007: 63.8°F2008: 62.5°F2009: 63.4°F2010: 64.9°F2011: 63.2°F2012: 62.9°F2013: 63.8°F2014: 63.8°F2015: 64.3°F2016: 65.6°F2017: 64.8°F2018: 63.8°F2019: 64.8°F2020: 64.6°F2021: 64.2°F2022: 64.1°F2023: 65.8°F2024: 66.5°Flong-term trend1975198019902000201020202024
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 9 fewer freezing nights a year and about 7 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.

-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°January: -1.6°F-1.6JFebruary: -0.5°F-0.5FMarch: -0.1°F-0.1MApril: +0.2°F+0.2AMay: +0.5°F+0.5MJune: +0.8°F+0.8JJuly: +0.9°F+0.9JAugust: +0.6°F+0.6ASeptember: +0.7°F+0.7SOctober: +0.2°F+0.2ONovember: +0.9°F+0.9NDecember: +0.7°F+0.7D

January has cooled the most — about 1.6°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 19 years of daily observations at Cochabamba, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →