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Has the climate in San Luis Potosí changed?

San Luis Potosí has warmed about 1.1°F between 1973 and 2020.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from San Luis Potosí'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? San Luis Potosí'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
8 / yr
Recent
8 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.3°F
1970s
62.2°F
Recent
63.5°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
21 more days
1970s
7 / yr
Recent
28 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
4 more days
1970s
39 / yr
Recent
43 / yr
Wetter on average

San Luis Potosí's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.

29°31°33°35°37°39°41°43°45°47°49°51°53°55°57°59°61°63°65°67°1973: 65.9°F1974: 64.8°F1975: 64.7°F1976: 65.0°F1986: 30.8°F1987: 59.0°F1988: 66.2°F1989: 66.3°F1990: 65.8°F1991: 65.6°F1992: 64.2°F1993: 65.0°F1994: 65.9°F1995: 66.8°F1996: 65.6°F1997: 64.5°F1998: 65.2°F1999: 62.2°F2000: 62.7°F2001: 61.9°F2002: 62.4°F2003: 62.9°F2004: 61.5°F2005: 63.7°F2006: 63.8°F2007: 63.5°F2008: 62.9°F2009: 64.4°F2010: 62.5°F2011: 64.8°F2012: 63.9°F2013: 63.2°F2014: 62.5°F2015: 62.8°F2016: 62.8°F2017: 63.3°F2018: 63.7°F2019: 65.1°F2020: 63.7°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 3 more freezing nights a year and about 12 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.

-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°May: +1.4°F+1.4MJune: -1.0°F-1.0JJuly: +0.0°F+0.0JSeptember: -0.4°F-0.4S

May 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 Potosi (smn), inside the city.

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