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Has the climate in Santo Domingo Tehuantepec changed?

Santo Domingo Tehuantepec has warmed about 0.8°F between 1971 and 2019.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec's official daily weather records, 1971–2019. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Santo Domingo Tehuantepec'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
+2.4°F
1970s
82.3°F
Recent
84.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
113 fewer days
1970s
286 / yr
Recent
173 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
32 fewer days
1970s
53 / yr
Recent
21 / yr
Drier on average

Santo Domingo Tehuantepec's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2019.

80°82°84°86°1971: 82.9°F1972: 83.8°F1973: 82.3°F1974: 81.2°F1975: 81.2°F1976: 81.4°F1977: 84.8°F1991: 83.6°F1992: 83.6°F1993: 82.8°F2011: 83.1°F2012: 84.2°F2013: 83.5°F2015: 85.1°F2016: 85.1°F2019: 85.4°Flong-term trend19712019
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 2 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.

-4.0°-3.5°-3.0°-2.5°-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°January: -2.1°F-2.1JFebruary: -0.9°F-0.9FMarch: -1.3°F-1.3MApril: -0.6°F-0.6AMay: +0.2°F+0.2MJune: +0.8°F+0.8JJuly: -1.4°F-1.4JAugust: -1.6°F-1.6ASeptember: -1.1°F-1.1SOctober: -2.2°F-2.2ONovember: -3.7°F-3.7NDecember: -2.5°F-2.5D

November has cooled the most — about 3.7°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 Rio Hondo, about 17 km from the city centre.

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