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Has the climate in Santa Rosa de Copán changed?

Santa Rosa de Copán has warmed about 4.6°F between 1991 and 2023.

About 1.4°F per decade, measured from Santa Rosa de Copán's official daily weather records, 1991–2023. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Santa Rosa de Copán's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Honduras.

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
+3.0°F
1970s
70.0°F
Recent
73.0°F
A steady upward drift

Santa Rosa de Copán's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2023.

67°69°71°73°75°77°1991: 70.1°F1992: 69.8°F1993: 69.9°F1994: 70.4°F1995: 70.7°F1996: 68.7°F1997: 70.4°F1998: 71.1°F1999: 69.4°F2000: 69.6°F2001: 69.8°F2002: 69.6°F2003: 71.0°F2004: 70.8°F2005: 71.7°F2006: 70.9°F2007: 69.4°F2008: 70.3°F2009: 70.2°F2010: 69.9°F2011: 71.1°F2012: 71.3°F2013: 71.4°F2014: 70.4°F2015: 72.5°F2016: 72.1°F2017: 72.1°F2018: 72.5°F2019: 74.4°F2020: 74.5°F2021: 74.3°F2022: 73.6°F2023: 75.5°Flong-term trend19912000201020202023
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 30 years of daily observations at Santa Rosa DE Copan, 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 →