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Has the climate in San Andrés changed?

San Andrés has warmed about 1.4°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from San Andrés'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? San Andrés'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.

Freezing nights
10 fewer nights
1970s
10 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+0.9°F
1970s
81.7°F
Recent
82.5°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
6 more days
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
8 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
12 fewer days
1970s
155 / yr
Recent
143 / yr
Drier on average

San Andrés's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

79°81°83°85°1971: 80.3°F1973: 82.9°F1974: 81.1°F1975: 80.9°F1976: 81.2°F1977: 81.7°F1978: 82.0°F1979: 82.2°F1980: 82.1°F1981: 82.0°F1982: 81.6°F1983: 82.2°F1984: 81.4°F1985: 81.3°F1986: 81.3°F1987: 82.1°F1988: 81.9°F1989: 81.2°F1990: 81.1°F1991: 81.5°F1992: 81.7°F1993: 82.1°F1994: 81.8°F1995: 82.5°F1996: 81.8°F1997: 82.3°F1998: 82.7°F1999: 81.5°F2000: 81.5°F2001: 81.8°F2002: 82.3°F2003: 82.5°F2004: 82.1°F2005: 82.3°F2006: 82.4°F2007: 82.7°F2009: 82.0°F2010: 82.2°F2011: 81.7°F2012: 81.8°F2013: 82.2°F2014: 82.1°F2015: 82.6°F2016: 82.9°F2017: 82.7°F2018: 82.4°F2019: 82.8°F2020: 82.7°F2021: 82.7°F2022: 82.2°F2023: 83.4°F2024: 83.9°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202024
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 7 fewer freezing nights a year and about 5 more days above 90°F 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +0.8°F+0.8JFebruary: +1.1°F+1.1FMarch: +0.5°F+0.5MApril: +0.6°F+0.6AMay: +0.8°F+0.8MJune: -0.5°F-0.5JJuly: +1.5°F+1.5JAugust: +1.1°F+1.1ASeptember: +1.5°F+1.5SOctober: +1.5°F+1.5ONovember: +1.1°F+1.1NDecember: +1.0°F+1.0D

July has warmed the most — about 1.5°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 19 years of daily observations at San Andres (isla)/s, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →