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Has the climate in Ciudad del Carmen changed?

How Ciudad del Carmen's climate has changed

About 0.1°F per decade, measured from Ciudad del Carmen's official daily weather records, 1971–2011. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Ciudad del Carmen's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Mexico.

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
about the same
1970s
80.4°F
Recent
80.5°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved
Hot days above 90°F
33 fewer days
1970s
204 / yr
Recent
171 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
16 fewer days
1970s
110 / yr
Recent
94 / yr
Drier on average

Ciudad del Carmen's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2011.

78°80°82°1971: 81.2°F1972: 81.6°F1973: 81.4°F1985: 80.0°F1986: 79.9°F1987: 79.4°F1988: 80.3°F1989: 79.6°F1990: 80.2°F1991: 80.8°F1992: 79.8°F1993: 80.3°F1994: 81.0°F1995: 81.5°F1996: 80.4°F1997: 80.8°F1998: 81.7°F1999: 80.3°F2000: 79.8°F2001: 79.6°F2002: 80.2°F2003: 80.5°F2004: 80.5°F2005: 80.4°F2006: 80.0°F2007: 80.9°F2008: 81.0°F2009: 81.2°F2010: 80.3°F2011: 80.4°Flong-term trend19711990200020102011
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 10 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.

-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°January: -0.2°F-0.2JFebruary: +0.3°F+0.3FMarch: -0.5°F-0.5MApril: +0.4°F+0.4AMay: -0.3°F-0.3MJune: -0.1°F-0.1JJuly: +0.1°F+0.1JAugust: +0.2°F+0.2ASeptember: -0.1°F-0.1SOctober: +0.5°F+0.5ONovember: -0.9°F-0.9NDecember: +0.2°F+0.2D

November has cooled the most — about 0.9°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 El Carmen - Limnologia (smn), about 7 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →