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Has the climate in Cúcuta changed?

Cúcuta has warmed about 0.7°F between 1991 and 2015.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Cúcuta's official daily weather records, 1991–2015. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Cúcuta's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Colombia — 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
+0.8°F
1970s
81.5°F
Recent
82.3°F
A steady upward drift

Cúcuta's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2015.

78°80°82°84°86°1991: 81.2°F1992: 81.9°F1993: 81.7°F1994: 80.8°F1995: 82.0°F1996: 81.4°F1997: 81.7°F2001: 81.8°F2004: 82.3°F2005: 82.1°F2006: 81.0°F2007: 81.8°F2008: 80.7°F2009: 81.1°F2010: 83.2°F2011: 79.9°F2012: 81.2°F2013: 82.1°F2014: 83.1°F2015: 84.1°Flong-term trend199120102015
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 24 years of daily observations at San Antonio Del Tachira / General Cipriano Castro Intl, a weather station, about 10 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →