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Has the climate in Ayacucho changed?

How Ayacucho's climate has changed

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from Ayacucho'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? Ayacucho's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Peru — 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
+0.7°F
1970s
64.6°F
Recent
65.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
45 more days
1970s
57 / yr
Recent
102 / yr
Wetter on average

Ayacucho's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.

61°63°65°67°1973: 64.3°F1974: 64.4°F1975: 63.7°F1976: 62.9°F1977: 65.3°F1978: 65.2°F1979: 65.8°F1980: 65.5°F1981: 64.4°F1982: 64.3°F1983: 66.3°F1984: 63.6°F1995: 65.1°F1996: 65.9°F1997: 65.8°F2007: 64.7°F2008: 64.6°F2012: 65.0°F2013: 65.9°F2014: 65.8°F2015: 65.5°F2016: 66.9°F2017: 65.5°F2018: 65.0°F2019: 64.0°F2020: 64.2°Flong-term trend197319802020
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.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from SENAMHI, Peru's national weather service, measured at Lircay, about 57 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →