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Has the climate in Porto Alegre changed?

Porto Alegre has warmed about 1.7°F between 1991 and 2023.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Porto Alegre's official daily weather records, 1991–2023. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Porto Alegre'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
+1.3°F
1970s
67.2°F
Recent
68.5°F
A steady upward drift

Porto Alegre's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2023.

65°67°69°71°1991: 67.0°F1992: 67.6°F1993: 67.2°F1994: 67.8°F1995: 67.0°F1996: 66.6°F1997: 67.3°F1998: 66.2°F1999: 66.2°F2000: 67.4°F2001: 68.9°F2002: 68.8°F2003: 68.7°F2004: 66.0°F2005: 68.5°F2006: 68.5°F2007: 67.6°F2008: 67.2°F2009: 67.3°F2010: 67.5°F2011: 67.0°F2012: 69.1°F2013: 67.0°F2014: 69.2°F2015: 69.2°F2016: 67.3°F2017: 69.4°F2018: 68.2°F2019: 69.6°F2020: 68.6°F2021: 67.9°F2022: 67.5°F2023: 69.5°Flong-term trend19912000201020202023
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 Porto Alegre, about 6 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →