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Has the climate in Acapulco de Juárez changed?

Acapulco de Juárez has warmed about 0.6°F between 1973 and 2020.

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from Acapulco de Juárez's official daily weather records, 1973–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Acapulco de Juárez's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Mexico — 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
+0.5°F
1970s
82.3°F
Recent
82.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
126 more days
1970s
150 / yr
Recent
276 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
14 more days
1970s
38 / yr
Recent
52 / yr
Wetter on average

Acapulco de Juárez's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.

79°81°83°85°1973: 81.3°F1974: 80.6°F1989: 81.4°F1990: 83.2°F1991: 82.7°F1992: 83.3°F1993: 82.6°F1994: 83.6°F1995: 83.2°F1996: 82.5°F1997: 82.7°F1998: 81.6°F1999: 80.8°F2000: 80.7°F2008: 81.8°F2011: 82.4°F2012: 81.8°F2013: 81.7°F2014: 82.5°F2015: 83.2°F2016: 83.2°F2017: 82.2°F2018: 82.8°F2019: 83.3°F2020: 83.4°Flong-term trend1973199020002020
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 97 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: +0.4°F+0.4JFebruary: +0.4°F+0.4FMarch: +1.6°F+1.6MApril: +2.5°F+2.5AMay: +0.3°F+0.3MJune: -0.1°F-0.1JJuly: -0.4°F-0.4JOctober: +0.2°F+0.2ONovember: -0.4°F-0.4NDecember: +0.6°F+0.6D

April has warmed the most — about 2.5°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from CONAGUA / SMN, Mexico's national weather service, measured at Acapulco De Juarez (smn), about 2 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →