About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Plasencia'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? Plasencia's climate has warmed more slowly 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
about the same
1970s
7 / yr
→
Recent
7 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.5°F
1970s
61.4°F
→
Recent
62.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
5 fewer days
1970s
54 / yr
→
Recent
49 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
17 more days
1970s
55 / yr
→
Recent
72 / yr
Wetter on average
Plasencia's temperature, year by year
Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2025.
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.
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.
May has warmed the most — about 1.9°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.
Methodology & sources
Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at Caceres, a weather station, about 66 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.