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Has the climate in Zacatecas changed?

How Zacatecas's climate has changed

About 0.1°F per decade, measured from Zacatecas's official daily weather records, 1989–2019. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Zacatecas's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Mexico.

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
1 fewer night
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
1 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+0.5°F
1970s
57.9°F
Recent
58.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 more day
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
1 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
15 more days
1970s
36 / yr
Recent
51 / yr
Wetter on average

Zacatecas's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1989 to 2019.

56°58°60°62°1989: 58.1°F1999: 59.0°F2005: 58.2°F2006: 57.4°F2008: 57.0°F2010: 57.4°F2011: 59.3°F2012: 58.3°F2013: 57.1°F2014: 57.3°F2015: 57.2°F2016: 57.3°F2017: 59.0°F2018: 58.4°F2019: 60.3°Flong-term trend198920102019
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.

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.

-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°+4.0°+4.5°+5.0°January: +2.2°F+2.2JFebruary: +3.0°F+3.0FMarch: +2.2°F+2.2MApril: +3.1°F+3.1AMay: +3.8°F+3.8MJune: +4.9°F+4.9JJuly: +5.0°F+5.0JAugust: -1.7°F-1.7ASeptember: +4.7°F+4.7SOctober: +4.1°F+4.1ONovember: +2.5°F+2.5NDecember: +2.4°F+2.4D

July has warmed the most — about 5.0°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 Zacatecas (dge), inside the city.

How we build these numbers →