Climate-Zone.com

HomeCitiesSpainSalamancaTools › Climate trends

Has the climate in Salamanca changed?

How Salamanca's climate has changed

About 0.1°F per decade, measured from Salamanca'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? Salamanca'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
8 more nights
1970s
74 / yr
Recent
82 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
about the same
1970s
53.9°F
Recent
53.9°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved
Hot days above 90°F
25 more days
1970s
14 / yr
Recent
39 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
7 fewer days
1970s
98 / yr
Recent
91 / yr
Drier on average

Salamanca's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

50°52°54°56°58°1971: 52.3°F1972: 51.1°F1973: 53.0°F1974: 52.5°F1975: 52.9°F1976: 53.1°F1977: 53.9°F1978: 54.0°F1979: 55.2°F1980: 53.9°F1981: 55.0°F1982: 55.7°F1983: 54.7°F1984: 53.0°F1985: 54.6°F1986: 54.4°F1987: 55.7°F1988: 54.9°F1989: 56.1°F1990: 55.3°F1991: 54.2°F1992: 54.5°F1993: 51.9°F1994: 53.8°F1995: 55.2°F1996: 53.2°F1997: 55.1°F1998: 53.8°F1999: 53.4°F2000: 53.4°F2001: 53.5°F2002: 55.1°F2003: 55.2°F2004: 53.8°F2005: 52.4°F2006: 55.0°F2007: 52.5°F2008: 51.5°F2009: 54.0°F2010: 53.1°F2011: 54.3°F2012: 52.6°F2013: 52.5°F2014: 54.1°F2015: 53.8°F2016: 53.7°F2017: 54.0°F2018: 53.1°F2019: 53.5°F2020: 54.6°F2021: 53.2°F2022: 55.8°F2023: 55.2°F2024: 55.2°F2025: 55.7°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 8 more freezing nights a year and about 12 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: +1.1°F+1.1JFebruary: -0.3°F-0.3FMarch: +1.1°F+1.1MApril: +1.8°F+1.8AMay: +2.3°F+2.3MJune: +2.2°F+2.2JJuly: +0.9°F+0.9JAugust: +1.2°F+1.2ASeptember: +0.3°F+0.3SOctober: +1.3°F+1.3ONovember: +0.6°F+0.6NDecember: +0.2°F+0.2D

May has warmed the most — about 2.3°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 Salamanca Aeropuerto, a weather station, about 14 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →