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Has the climate in Cuenca changed?

Cuenca has warmed about 4.9°F since 1971.

About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Cuenca's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. 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 climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Spain.

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
24 fewer nights
1970s
76 / yr
Recent
52 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+3.1°F
1970s
55.0°F
Recent
58.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
27 more days
1970s
25 / yr
Recent
52 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
4 fewer days
1970s
100 / yr
Recent
96 / yr
Drier on average

Cuenca's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

50°52°54°56°58°60°1971: 51.4°F1972: 52.4°F1973: 54.6°F1974: 54.6°F1975: 54.5°F1976: 54.5°F1977: 54.7°F1978: 54.9°F1979: 55.0°F1980: 54.8°F1981: 56.2°F1982: 56.2°F1983: 56.9°F1984: 54.7°F1985: 56.5°F1986: 55.5°F1987: 56.6°F1988: 56.2°F1989: 57.3°F1990: 55.4°F1991: 54.4°F1992: 55.1°F1993: 55.0°F1994: 57.9°F1995: 58.2°F1996: 56.2°F1997: 56.6°F1998: 55.7°F1999: 55.4°F2000: 55.4°F2001: 57.7°F2002: 57.5°F2003: 58.4°F2004: 57.4°F2005: 57.8°F2006: 58.8°F2007: 56.8°F2008: 56.7°F2009: 58.7°F2010: 55.8°F2011: 59.9°F2012: 59.0°F2013: 57.5°F2014: 59.7°F2015: 59.0°F2016: 57.1°F2017: 58.5°F2018: 56.1°F2019: 57.5°F2020: 57.6°F2021: 57.2°F2022: 59.8°F2023: 58.6°F2024: 58.8°F2025: 58.7°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
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 12 fewer freezing nights a year and about 13 more 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°January: +1.5°F+1.5JFebruary: +0.9°F+0.9FMarch: +2.0°F+2.0MApril: +2.7°F+2.7AMay: +3.0°F+3.0MJune: +3.4°F+3.4JJuly: +2.6°F+2.6JAugust: +2.4°F+2.4ASeptember: +1.2°F+1.2SOctober: +2.4°F+2.4ONovember: +1.1°F+1.1NDecember: +0.9°F+0.9D

June has warmed the most — about 3.4°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Cuenca, a weather station, inside the city. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →