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Has the climate in Santa Cruz de Barahona changed?

Santa Cruz de Barahona has warmed about 2.4°F between 2000 and 2024.

About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Santa Cruz de Barahona's official daily weather records, 2000–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Santa Cruz de Barahona's climate has warmed faster 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
+1.3°F
1970s
82.7°F
Recent
84.0°F
A steady upward drift

Santa Cruz de Barahona's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2000 to 2024.

79°81°83°85°2000: 80.7°F2001: 82.2°F2002: 82.4°F2003: 82.5°F2004: 82.0°F2005: 82.8°F2006: 84.4°F2007: 84.3°F2008: 83.4°F2009: 83.7°F2010: 83.8°F2011: 83.3°F2012: 83.4°F2013: 84.1°F2014: 83.7°F2015: 84.3°F2016: 83.7°F2017: 83.1°F2018: 83.1°F2019: 83.7°F2020: 84.4°F2021: 84.0°F2022: 84.0°F2023: 84.7°F2024: 85.0°Flong-term trend2000201020202024
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 Maria Montez Intl, 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 →