How Santa Cruz de El Seibo's climate has changed

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Santa Cruz de El Seibo'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? Santa Cruz de El Seibo'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

Santa Cruz de El Seibo's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2008 to 2024.

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 48 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →