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Has the climate in São José changed?

São José has warmed about 1.1°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from São José's official daily weather records, 1991–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? São José'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
+1.0°F
1970s
69.5°F
Recent
70.5°F
A steady upward drift

São José's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

67°69°71°73°1991: 69.9°F1992: 69.1°F1993: 69.4°F1994: 70.3°F1995: 69.9°F1996: 69.5°F1997: 70.1°F1998: 69.4°F1999: 68.2°F2000: 68.3°F2001: 70.7°F2002: 70.9°F2003: 69.9°F2004: 69.4°F2005: 70.7°F2006: 70.1°F2007: 70.0°F2008: 69.5°F2009: 68.7°F2010: 69.7°F2011: 69.4°F2012: 70.9°F2013: 68.9°F2014: 70.9°F2015: 71.4°F2016: 68.9°F2017: 71.1°F2018: 70.1°F2019: 71.5°F2020: 70.3°F2021: 69.6°F2022: 69.6°F2023: 71.6°F2024: 70.8°Flong-term trend19912000201020202024
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 Florianopolis, about 7 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →