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Has the climate in Havana changed?

Havana has warmed about 0.6°F between 1975 and 2015.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Havana's official daily weather records, 1975–2015. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

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

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
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+0.9°F
1970s
76.7°F
Recent
77.6°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
16 more days
1970s
80 / yr
Recent
96 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
97 more days
1970s
12 / yr
Recent
109 / yr
Wetter on average

Havana's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1975 to 2015.

74°76°78°80°1975: 77.3°F1976: 75.9°F1977: 76.1°F1978: 76.5°F1980: 77.2°F1981: 76.6°F1982: 77.5°F1983: 76.7°F1984: 76.6°F1987: 77.2°F1988: 76.2°F1989: 77.1°F1990: 77.4°F1993: 76.9°F2001: 76.9°F2009: 78.0°F2010: 76.5°F2011: 77.7°F2012: 77.4°F2013: 77.7°F2014: 77.3°F2015: 78.6°Flong-term trend19751980199020102015
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.

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°January: +0.0°F+0.0JFebruary: +0.6°F+0.6FMarch: +0.0°F+0.0MApril: +1.1°F+1.1AMay: +0.2°F+0.2MJune: +0.8°F+0.8JJuly: +0.3°F+0.3JAugust: +0.6°F+0.6ASeptember: +0.6°F+0.6SOctober: +0.7°F+0.7ONovember: -0.0°F-0.0NDecember: +0.0°F+0.0D

April has warmed the most — about 1.2°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 14 years of daily observations at Casa Blanca LA Habana, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →