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Has the climate in San Juan de la Maguana changed?

San Juan de la Maguana has cooled about 3.7°F between 1997 and 2024.

About 1.6°F per decade, measured from San Juan de la Maguana's official daily weather records, 1997–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? San Juan de la Maguana's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Dominican Republic.

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
−2.9°F
1970s
81.0°F
Recent
78.1°F
A small downward drift

San Juan de la Maguana's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1997 to 2024.

76°78°80°82°84°1997: 83.2°F2000: 81.8°F2001: 82.5°F2002: 82.4°F2003: 80.8°F2004: 79.7°F2005: 79.6°F2006: 77.9°F2007: 77.7°F2008: 77.9°F2009: 78.1°F2010: 77.4°F2011: 77.2°F2012: 77.0°F2015: 78.7°F2016: 77.9°F2017: 77.6°F2018: 77.8°F2019: 78.6°F2020: 79.0°F2021: 77.4°F2022: 77.2°F2023: 78.4°F2024: 78.7°Flong-term trend19972000201020202024
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 Cibao Intl, a weather station, about 93 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →