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Has the climate in Mocoa changed?

Mocoa has warmed about 3°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Mocoa's official daily weather records, 1971–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Mocoa's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Colombia.

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
5 fewer nights
1970s
5 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+2.1°F
1970s
66.1°F
Recent
68.2°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
13 fewer days
1970s
145 / yr
Recent
132 / yr
Drier on average

Mocoa's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

52°54°56°58°60°62°64°66°68°70°72°1971: 63.3°F1973: 66.2°F1974: 65.8°F1975: 65.2°F1976: 67.0°F1977: 68.3°F1978: 66.6°F1979: 66.2°F1980: 66.4°F1981: 65.7°F1982: 67.3°F1983: 66.9°F1984: 64.9°F1985: 64.3°F1986: 63.2°F1987: 67.2°F1988: 53.6°F1989: 60.4°F1990: 63.4°F1991: 65.9°F1992: 66.5°F1993: 64.4°F1994: 65.9°F1995: 65.7°F1996: 64.8°F1997: 67.0°F1998: 67.5°F1999: 65.4°F2010: 67.4°F2011: 66.8°F2012: 68.4°F2013: 68.4°F2014: 68.3°F2015: 70.3°F2016: 69.2°F2017: 67.7°F2018: 68.3°F2019: 68.7°F2022: 66.3°F2023: 69.3°F2024: 67.7°Flong-term trend19711980199020102024
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 8 fewer freezing nights a year compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°January: +2.5°F+2.5JFebruary: +1.2°F+1.2FMarch: +2.6°F+2.6MApril: +1.3°F+1.3AMay: +0.9°F+0.9MJune: +0.5°F+0.5JJuly: +0.9°F+0.9JAugust: +1.4°F+1.4ASeptember: +1.0°F+1.0SOctober: +1.6°F+1.6ONovember: +1.6°F+1.6NDecember: +3.1°F+3.1D

December has warmed the most — about 3.1°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

How we build these numbers →