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Has the climate in La Serena changed?

How La Serena's climate has changed

About 0.0°F per decade, measured from La Serena'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? La Serena's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Chile — 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.

Average temperature
about the same
1970s
57.5°F
Recent
57.6°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved

La Serena's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

55°57°59°61°1991: 57.5°F1992: 57.7°F1993: 56.7°F1994: 57.2°F1995: 57.2°F1996: 56.8°F1997: 59.9°F1998: 58.0°F1999: 57.2°F2000: 56.8°F2001: 57.2°F2002: 57.9°F2003: 56.6°F2004: 56.9°F2005: 57.0°F2006: 57.6°F2007: 56.1°F2008: 57.2°F2009: 56.4°F2010: 56.1°F2011: 56.6°F2012: 57.6°F2013: 57.0°F2014: 56.8°F2015: 58.4°F2016: 59.1°F2017: 58.3°F2018: 57.1°F2019: 57.2°F2020: 57.4°F2021: 56.9°F2022: 56.5°F2023: 58.5°F2024: 57.1°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 — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at LA Florida, 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 →