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Has the climate in Ourense changed?

Ourense has warmed about 2.8°F since 1973.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Ourense's official daily weather records, 1973–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Ourense's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Spain — 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
11 fewer nights
1970s
33 / yr
Recent
22 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.7°F
1970s
58.1°F
Recent
59.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
21 more days
1970s
26 / yr
Recent
47 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
5 more days
1970s
123 / yr
Recent
128 / yr
Wetter on average

Ourense's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2025.

54°56°58°60°62°1973: 56.0°F1974: 55.9°F1975: 56.6°F1976: 58.8°F1977: 56.6°F1978: 57.2°F1979: 58.3°F1980: 57.3°F1981: 58.5°F1983: 60.1°F1984: 57.0°F1985: 57.7°F1986: 57.9°F1987: 59.5°F1988: 58.7°F1989: 60.9°F1990: 60.7°F1991: 59.2°F1992: 58.9°F1993: 58.2°F1994: 59.8°F1995: 61.3°F1996: 59.7°F1997: 61.4°F1998: 60.4°F1999: 59.4°F2000: 58.8°F2001: 59.2°F2002: 60.0°F2003: 60.6°F2004: 59.4°F2005: 59.3°F2006: 61.2°F2007: 59.5°F2008: 59.1°F2009: 59.9°F2010: 60.1°F2011: 61.1°F2012: 58.8°F2013: 59.2°F2014: 60.8°F2015: 60.3°F2016: 58.9°F2017: 59.3°F2018: 59.2°F2019: 58.1°F2020: 60.1°F2021: 59.2°F2023: 60.7°F2024: 60.8°F2025: 61.1°Flong-term trend1973198019902000201020202025
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 2 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°January: +1.3°F+1.3JFebruary: +0.1°F+0.1FMarch: +1.2°F+1.2MApril: +2.1°F+2.1AMay: +2.1°F+2.1MJune: +1.9°F+1.9JJuly: +1.3°F+1.3JAugust: +1.6°F+1.6ASeptember: +1.3°F+1.3SOctober: +1.7°F+1.7ONovember: +0.7°F+0.7NDecember: +0.2°F+0.2D

May has warmed the most — about 2.1°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 Ourense, a weather station, about 1 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →