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Has the climate in Santiago de los Caballeros changed?

Santiago de los Caballeros has cooled about 3.7°F between 1997 and 2024.

About 1.6°F per decade, measured from Santiago de los Caballeros'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? Santiago de los Caballeros'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

Santiago de los Caballeros'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 10 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →