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Has the climate in Cuenca changed?

Cuenca has warmed about 1.7°F between 1975 and 2024.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Cuenca's official daily weather records, 1975–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Cuenca's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Ecuador — 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.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.6°F
1970s
77.1°F
Recent
78.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
22 fewer days
1970s
45 / yr
Recent
23 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
12 more days
1970s
14 / yr
Recent
26 / yr
Wetter on average

Cuenca's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1975 to 2024.

73°75°77°79°81°83°1975: 76.9°F1976: 79.1°F1977: 78.1°F1978: 77.2°F1979: 76.8°F1980: 77.2°F1981: 75.5°F1982: 77.9°F1983: 79.0°F1984: 76.1°F1985: 74.9°F1986: 75.8°F1987: 77.9°F1988: 76.6°F1989: 75.5°F1994: 76.8°F1995: 77.1°F1996: 75.8°F1997: 81.1°F2001: 76.8°F2003: 77.9°F2005: 77.4°F2006: 78.7°F2007: 78.1°F2008: 78.5°F2010: 77.7°F2011: 77.7°F2012: 78.5°F2013: 76.9°F2014: 78.8°F2015: 80.5°F2016: 79.5°F2017: 77.9°F2018: 77.0°F2019: 77.9°F2020: 80.3°F2021: 78.8°F2022: 76.8°F2023: 81.5°F2024: 79.1°Flong-term trend19751980201020202024
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.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 4 fewer days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°January: +0.1°F+0.1JFebruary: -0.8°F-0.8FMarch: -0.8°F-0.8MApril: -0.5°F-0.5AMay: -0.0°F-0.0MJune: -0.0°F-0.0JJuly: +0.0°F+0.0JAugust: +0.3°F+0.3ASeptember: -0.3°F-0.3SOctober: -0.1°F-0.1ONovember: -0.5°F-0.5NDecember: -0.3°F-0.3D

February has cooled the most — about 0.9°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 18 years of daily observations at Pedro Canga, a weather station, about 170 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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