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Has the climate in Tuxtla changed?

Tuxtla has warmed about 3.2°F between 1971 and 2011.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Tuxtla'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? Tuxtla'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
+2.2°F
1970s
74.7°F
Recent
76.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
107 more days
1970s
90 / yr
Recent
197 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
5 fewer days
1970s
92 / yr
Recent
87 / yr
Drier on average

Tuxtla's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2011.

72°74°76°78°80°82°1971: 73.6°F1972: 74.9°F1973: 74.4°F1974: 74.0°F1975: 74.7°F1976: 74.5°F1977: 75.0°F1978: 74.7°F1979: 75.0°F1980: 74.9°F1981: 75.2°F1982: 75.3°F1983: 75.1°F1984: 75.6°F1985: 76.2°F1986: 74.6°F1987: 75.2°F1988: 77.3°F1989: 77.3°F1990: 77.1°F1991: 78.8°F1992: 78.9°F1993: 79.3°F1994: 80.2°F1995: 78.1°F1996: 77.1°F1997: 78.8°F1998: 78.4°F1999: 75.4°F2000: 76.5°F2001: 76.9°F2002: 78.2°F2004: 79.3°F2005: 77.3°F2006: 77.2°F2007: 77.1°F2008: 76.0°F2009: 75.7°F2010: 76.0°F2011: 75.6°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 62 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°+2.5°January: +1.4°F+1.4JFebruary: +1.4°F+1.4FMarch: +1.5°F+1.5MApril: +2.1°F+2.1AMay: +1.5°F+1.5MJune: +1.4°F+1.4JJuly: +1.4°F+1.4JAugust: +1.4°F+1.4ASeptember: +1.1°F+1.1SOctober: +1.1°F+1.1ONovember: +0.7°F+0.7NDecember: +1.1°F+1.1D

April has warmed the most — about 2.1°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 Tuxtla Gutierrez (dge), inside the city.

How we build these numbers →