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Has the climate in León de los Aldama changed?

León de los Aldama has warmed about 2.7°F between 1971 and 2012.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from León de los Aldama's official daily weather records, 1971–2012. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? León de los Aldama'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
+1.5°F
1970s
66.6°F
Recent
68.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
15 more days
1970s
24 / yr
Recent
39 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
3 fewer days
1970s
70 / yr
Recent
67 / yr
Drier on average

León de los Aldama's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2012.

63°65°67°69°71°73°1971: 66.3°F1972: 67.0°F1973: 65.2°F1974: 65.3°F1975: 64.9°F1976: 65.4°F1977: 66.8°F1978: 66.8°F1979: 67.3°F1980: 67.8°F1981: 66.9°F1982: 68.5°F1983: 67.1°F1984: 66.9°F1985: 66.7°F1986: 66.7°F1987: 66.6°F1988: 67.1°F1989: 66.7°F1990: 66.3°F1991: 67.0°F1992: 65.9°F1993: 67.6°F1994: 68.8°F1995: 69.2°F1996: 67.9°F1997: 66.8°F1998: 68.1°F1999: 66.9°F2000: 68.1°F2001: 67.0°F2002: 67.7°F2003: 67.9°F2004: 65.9°F2005: 68.8°F2006: 67.7°F2007: 66.8°F2008: 67.6°F2009: 69.7°F2010: 68.3°F2011: 71.1°F2012: 69.5°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102012
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 9 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°January: +1.1°F+1.1JFebruary: +1.8°F+1.8FMarch: +1.2°F+1.2MApril: +1.5°F+1.5AMay: +0.8°F+0.8MJune: +0.8°F+0.8JJuly: +0.4°F+0.4JAugust: +0.8°F+0.8ASeptember: +0.5°F+0.5SOctober: +1.0°F+1.0ONovember: +0.7°F+0.7NDecember: +1.1°F+1.1D

February has warmed the most — about 1.8°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 Leon (dge), about 3 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →