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Has the climate in Poza Rica de Hidalgo changed?

Poza Rica de Hidalgo has warmed about 2.4°F between 1971 and 2011.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Poza Rica de Hidalgo'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? Poza Rica de Hidalgo'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
+1.6°F
1970s
76.3°F
Recent
78.0°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
24 more days
1970s
156 / yr
Recent
180 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
18 fewer days
1970s
102 / yr
Recent
84 / yr
Drier on average

Poza Rica de Hidalgo's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2011.

72°74°76°78°80°1971: 77.2°F1972: 76.3°F1973: 76.1°F1974: 76.4°F1975: 76.6°F1976: 73.6°F1977: 76.4°F1978: 75.7°F1979: 75.3°F1980: 76.6°F1981: 77.0°F1982: 77.5°F1983: 77.5°F1984: 76.7°F1985: 77.4°F1986: 77.9°F1987: 76.1°F1988: 76.9°F1989: 77.7°F1990: 78.9°F1991: 78.3°F1992: 76.9°F1993: 77.5°F1994: 78.6°F1995: 78.4°F1996: 77.3°F1997: 76.7°F1998: 79.3°F1999: 77.6°F2000: 77.7°F2001: 77.5°F2002: 77.6°F2003: 77.4°F2004: 77.9°F2005: 77.5°F2006: 77.7°F2007: 79.4°F2008: 79.1°F2009: 79.8°F2010: 77.1°F2011: 77.1°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102011
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°January: +1.2°F+1.2JFebruary: +1.4°F+1.4FMarch: +0.8°F+0.8MApril: +1.3°F+1.3AMay: +0.5°F+0.5MJune: +1.0°F+1.0JJuly: +0.9°F+0.9JAugust: +0.8°F+0.8ASeptember: +0.5°F+0.5SOctober: +0.8°F+0.8ONovember: +0.5°F+0.5NDecember: +0.9°F+0.9D

February has warmed the most — about 1.5°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 Poza Rica, about 2 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →