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Has the climate in Culiacán changed?

Culiacán has warmed about 1.7°F between 1973 and 2020.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Culiacán'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? Culiacán'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
+1.1°F
1970s
78.9°F
Recent
80.0°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
67 more days
1970s
53 / yr
Recent
120 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
7 more days
1970s
15 / yr
Recent
22 / yr
Wetter on average

Culiacán's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.

74°76°78°80°82°1973: 78.2°F1974: 77.7°F1975: 75.9°F1990: 79.0°F1991: 77.5°F1992: 79.1°F1993: 79.5°F1994: 78.6°F1995: 81.0°F1996: 80.9°F1997: 80.9°F1998: 81.4°F1999: 81.1°F2000: 81.0°F2001: 80.9°F2002: 80.4°F2003: 81.4°F2004: 79.3°F2005: 79.2°F2006: 78.8°F2007: 78.6°F2008: 78.6°F2009: 80.4°F2010: 79.3°F2011: 79.1°F2012: 79.7°F2013: 79.6°F2014: 81.7°F2015: 81.5°F2016: 80.9°F2017: 79.8°F2018: 79.4°F2019: 79.4°F2020: 80.1°Flong-term trend19731990200020102020
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 54 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from CONAGUA / SMN, Mexico's national weather service, measured at Culiacan (dge), about 1 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →