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Has the climate in La Paz changed?

La Paz has warmed about 2.1°F between 1973 and 2020.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from La Paz'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? La Paz'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
+1.8°F
1970s
77.0°F
Recent
78.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
14 more days
1970s
150 / yr
Recent
164 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
9 more days
1970s
9 / yr
Recent
18 / yr
Wetter on average

La Paz's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.

74°76°78°80°82°1973: 75.4°F1974: 75.9°F1991: 77.9°F1992: 77.8°F1993: 77.1°F1994: 77.3°F1995: 76.8°F1996: 77.1°F1997: 77.5°F1998: 77.4°F1999: 76.6°F2000: 76.6°F2001: 76.2°F2002: 76.9°F2005: 76.4°F2006: 77.0°F2007: 76.9°F2008: 77.9°F2009: 77.9°F2010: 77.9°F2011: 77.8°F2012: 78.3°F2013: 77.4°F2014: 80.2°F2015: 79.3°F2016: 79.2°F2017: 78.6°F2018: 78.5°F2019: 78.6°F2020: 80.0°Flong-term trend1973200020102020
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 62 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: +0.6°F+0.6JFebruary: +0.9°F+0.9FMarch: +1.0°F+1.0MApril: +2.3°F+2.3AMay: +1.0°F+1.0MJune: +0.9°F+0.9JJuly: +0.7°F+0.7JAugust: +1.0°F+1.0ASeptember: +1.5°F+1.5SOctober: +0.5°F+0.5ONovember: +0.5°F+0.5NDecember: +0.1°F+0.1D

April has warmed the most — about 2.3°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 La Paz (dge), about 2 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →