Climate-Zone.com

HomeCitiesChileValdiviaTools › Climate trends

Has the climate in Valdivia changed?

Valdivia has cooled about 1.4°F between 1975 and 2020.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Valdivia's official daily weather records, 1975–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Valdivia's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Chile.

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
6 fewer nights
1970s
27 / yr
Recent
21 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
−1.2°F
1970s
55.3°F
Recent
54.1°F
A small downward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 more day
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
1 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
22 more days
1970s
107 / yr
Recent
129 / yr
Wetter on average

Valdivia's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1975 to 2020.

50°52°54°56°58°1975: 53.5°F1976: 54.3°F1977: 55.7°F1978: 56.0°F1979: 56.0°F1980: 55.6°F1981: 55.6°F1984: 54.4°F1985: 55.7°F1986: 55.0°F1987: 56.2°F1988: 55.3°F1989: 55.3°F1990: 54.8°F1991: 54.5°F1993: 55.1°F1994: 55.5°F1995: 54.8°F1996: 55.2°F1997: 55.6°F1998: 56.0°F1999: 56.0°F2000: 54.8°F2001: 55.5°F2010: 55.8°F2011: 56.8°F2012: 57.1°F2014: 54.2°F2015: 53.4°F2016: 52.8°F2017: 53.2°F2018: 52.2°F2019: 52.0°F2020: 52.2°Flong-term trend197519801990200020102020
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.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 9 fewer freezing nights a year compared with the 1970s.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from the WMO's CLINO 1991–2020 collection, measured at Pichoyvaldiviaad, about 22 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →