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Has the climate in Puerto Lempira changed?

Puerto Lempira has warmed about 1.8°F between 1979 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Puerto Lempira's official daily weather records, 1979–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Puerto Lempira's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Honduras — 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
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.4°F
1970s
81.4°F
Recent
82.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
70 more days
1970s
17 / yr
Recent
87 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
101 fewer days
1970s
233 / yr
Recent
132 / yr
Drier on average

Puerto Lempira's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1979 to 2024.

79°81°83°85°1979: 82.4°F1980: 81.7°F1981: 80.7°F1982: 82.1°F1983: 81.9°F1984: 80.5°F1985: 81.2°F1986: 80.4°F1987: 81.9°F1988: 81.6°F1989: 80.8°F1990: 81.4°F1991: 81.8°F1992: 81.9°F1993: 81.4°F1997: 82.3°F1998: 82.7°F1999: 81.8°F2000: 81.9°F2001: 82.0°F2002: 82.7°F2003: 82.4°F2004: 82.5°F2005: 82.8°F2006: 82.9°F2007: 83.1°F2008: 81.9°F2009: 82.1°F2012: 82.1°F2014: 82.5°F2015: 83.1°F2016: 83.0°F2017: 82.7°F2018: 82.7°F2019: 83.3°F2021: 82.8°F2022: 82.3°F2023: 83.7°F2024: 84.3°Flong-term trend19791980199020002024
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 29 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°+3.0°January: +2.9°F+2.9JFebruary: +1.3°F+1.3FMarch: +0.7°F+0.7MApril: +0.8°F+0.8AMay: +0.7°F+0.7MJune: +1.3°F+1.3JJuly: -0.3°F-0.3JAugust: +1.7°F+1.7ASeptember: +2.3°F+2.3SOctober: +1.6°F+1.6ONovember: +0.2°F+0.2NDecember: +1.7°F+1.7D

January has warmed the most — about 2.9°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 16 years of daily observations at Puerto Lempira, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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