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Has the climate in Porto Novo changed?

Porto Novo has warmed about 1°F between 2014 and 2024.

About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Porto Novo's official daily weather records, 2014–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Porto Novo's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Cape Verde.

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
76.4°F
Recent
77.1°F
A steady upward drift

Porto Novo's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2014 to 2024.

74°76°78°2014: 76.1°F2015: 76.1°F2016: 76.9°F2017: 77.5°F2018: 75.4°F2019: 76.5°F2020: 77.2°F2021: 75.9°F2022: 76.2°F2023: 77.8°F2024: 77.3°Flong-term trend201420202024
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 — 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 →