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Has the climate in Hato Mayor del Rey changed?

How Hato Mayor del Rey's climate has changed

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Hato Mayor del Rey's official daily weather records, 2008–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Hato Mayor del Rey's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Dominican Republic — 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
−0.5°F
1970s
80.9°F
Recent
80.4°F
A small downward drift

Hato Mayor del Rey's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2008 to 2024.

78°80°82°2008: 80.4°F2009: 81.2°F2010: 81.1°F2011: 80.3°F2015: 81.2°F2016: 80.1°F2017: 79.4°F2018: 79.5°F2019: 79.7°F2020: 80.2°F2024: 81.2°Flong-term trend2008201020202024
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 22 years of daily observations at Sabana DE LA Mar, a weather station, about 34 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →