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Has the climate in Escuintla changed?

Escuintla has warmed about 3.9°F between 1997 and 2022.

About 1.6°F per decade, measured from Escuintla's official daily weather records, 1997–2022. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Escuintla's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Guatemala.

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
+2.8°F
1970s
81.5°F
Recent
84.3°F
A steady upward drift

Escuintla's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1997 to 2022.

79°81°83°85°87°1997: 82.4°F1999: 80.3°F2000: 80.5°F2001: 81.9°F2002: 82.2°F2003: 82.6°F2004: 81.4°F2005: 80.5°F2006: 80.5°F2007: 80.5°F2008: 80.0°F2009: 80.9°F2010: 80.8°F2011: 80.4°F2012: 80.7°F2013: 80.9°F2014: 81.2°F2015: 82.3°F2016: 83.5°F2017: 84.8°F2018: 84.9°F2019: 85.4°F2020: 85.0°F2021: 83.7°F2022: 84.9°Flong-term trend19972000201020202022
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 — 1991–2020 normals computed from 25 years of daily observations at San Jose, a weather station, about 41 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →