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Has the climate in San Luis de la Paz changed?

San Luis de la Paz has warmed about 2.3°F between 1971 and 2012.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from San Luis de la Paz'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? San Luis de 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
2 fewer nights
1970s
10 / yr
Recent
8 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.8°F
1970s
62.3°F
Recent
64.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
25 more days
1970s
12 / yr
Recent
37 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
8 fewer days
1970s
58 / yr
Recent
50 / yr
Drier on average

San Luis de la Paz's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2012.

58°60°62°64°66°68°1971: 62.6°F1972: 63.0°F1973: 62.3°F1974: 61.3°F1975: 61.0°F1976: 60.6°F1977: 61.2°F1978: 61.8°F1979: 62.2°F1980: 64.2°F1981: 63.1°F1982: 64.4°F1983: 63.7°F1984: 62.9°F1985: 62.9°F1986: 62.9°F1987: 62.4°F1988: 62.8°F1989: 62.8°F1991: 60.3°F1992: 59.2°F1993: 61.9°F1994: 63.5°F1995: 64.5°F1996: 65.0°F1997: 66.0°F1998: 66.4°F1999: 64.1°F2001: 63.7°F2002: 64.7°F2003: 65.1°F2004: 62.5°F2005: 63.4°F2007: 63.5°F2009: 64.4°F2010: 63.1°F2011: 64.5°F2012: 63.9°Flong-term trend1971198020102012
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 14 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: +0.7°F+0.7JFebruary: +1.4°F+1.4FMarch: +0.3°F+0.3MApril: +1.1°F+1.1AMay: +0.8°F+0.8MJune: +1.2°F+1.2JJuly: +1.3°F+1.3JAugust: +1.0°F+1.0ASeptember: +1.0°F+1.0SOctober: +0.6°F+0.6ONovember: +0.3°F+0.3NDecember: +0.5°F+0.5D

February has warmed the most — about 1.4°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 San Luis De La Paz, inside the city.

How we build these numbers →