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Has the climate in Contagem changed?

Contagem has warmed about 2.3°F between 2009 and 2022.

About 1.6°F per decade, measured from Contagem's official daily weather records, 2009–2022. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Contagem's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Brazil.

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
+2.1°F
1970s
74.6°F
Recent
76.7°F
A steady upward drift

Contagem's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2009 to 2022.

73°75°77°79°2009: 75.0°F2010: 74.8°F2011: 74.0°F2012: 74.7°F2013: 75.4°F2014: 77.1°F2015: 77.4°F2016: 76.3°F2017: 75.4°F2018: 75.8°F2019: 77.7°F2020: 76.7°F2021: 76.2°F2022: 76.4°Flong-term trend2009201020202022
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 INMET, Brazil's national meteorological institute, measured at Belo Horizonte, about 11 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →