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Has the climate in São José dos Campos changed?

São José dos Campos has warmed about 1.1°F between 1990 and 2020.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from São José dos Campos's official daily weather records, 1990–2020. 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 dos Campos'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.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.0°F
1970s
69.6°F
Recent
70.6°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
141 fewer days
1970s
141 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Drier on average

São José dos Campos's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1990 to 2020.

64°66°68°70°72°74°1990: 69.1°F1991: 69.7°F1992: 69.5°F1993: 69.7°F1994: 70.5°F1995: 69.7°F1996: 69.2°F1997: 69.5°F1998: 69.6°F1999: 65.8°F2000: 67.7°F2006: 69.3°F2007: 69.6°F2008: 68.4°F2009: 68.5°F2010: 69.0°F2011: 68.4°F2012: 69.5°F2013: 68.4°F2014: 72.9°F2015: 73.4°F2016: 69.8°F2017: 69.4°F2018: 69.7°F2019: 70.3°F2020: 70.9°Flong-term trend1990200020102020
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 Sao Paulo(mir.de Santana), about 83 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →