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Has the climate in Manizales changed?

Manizales has warmed about 1.2°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Manizales'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? Manizales'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
+1.1°F
1970s
71.2°F
Recent
72.3°F
A steady upward drift

Manizales's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

69°71°73°75°1991: 71.9°F1992: 71.2°F1993: 70.2°F1994: 71.0°F1995: 70.9°F1996: 70.9°F1997: 72.1°F1998: 72.1°F1999: 70.4°F2000: 71.0°F2001: 72.4°F2002: 72.7°F2003: 72.4°F2005: 72.3°F2006: 72.0°F2007: 71.8°F2009: 72.3°F2010: 71.6°F2011: 71.0°F2012: 71.7°F2013: 71.8°F2014: 72.0°F2015: 73.3°F2016: 72.9°F2017: 71.6°F2018: 71.4°F2019: 72.3°F2020: 73.7°F2021: 71.9°F2022: 70.6°F2023: 72.6°F2024: 72.9°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 28 years of daily observations at Matecana, a weather station, about 38 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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