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Has the climate in Quito changed?

How Quito's climate has changed

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from Quito's official daily weather records, 1991–2012. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Quito's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Ecuador.

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
about the same
1970s
57.0°F
Recent
57.2°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved

Quito's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2012.

54°56°58°60°1991: 57.8°F1992: 57.6°F1993: 56.6°F1994: 56.8°F1995: 57.0°F1996: 56.2°F1997: 57.3°F1998: 57.8°F1999: 55.6°F2000: 55.7°F2001: 57.5°F2002: 58.5°F2003: 58.7°F2004: 58.3°F2005: 57.4°F2006: 57.4°F2007: 57.2°F2008: 56.2°F2009: 57.7°F2010: 57.7°F2011: 56.8°F2012: 57.3°Flong-term trend1991200020102012
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 — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

How we build these numbers →