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Has the climate in Vila Nova de Gaia changed?

Vila Nova de Gaia has warmed about 1.8°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Vila Nova de Gaia's official daily weather records, 1991–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Vila Nova de Gaia's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Portugal.

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.

Average temperature
+1.2°F
1970s
58.1°F
Recent
59.3°F
A steady upward drift

Vila Nova de Gaia's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

55°57°59°61°63°1991: 57.6°F1992: 57.2°F1993: 57.0°F1994: 57.4°F1995: 59.9°F1996: 57.6°F1997: 60.0°F1998: 58.2°F1999: 58.0°F2000: 57.9°F2001: 58.2°F2002: 58.8°F2003: 61.0°F2004: 59.0°F2005: 59.4°F2006: 60.7°F2007: 59.3°F2008: 59.0°F2009: 60.0°F2010: 60.0°F2011: 59.6°F2012: 57.8°F2013: 58.5°F2014: 59.3°F2015: 59.0°F2016: 58.6°F2017: 59.1°F2018: 58.6°F2019: 58.6°F2020: 59.5°F2021: 58.6°F2022: 60.1°F2023: 60.6°F2024: 60.6°Flong-term trend19912000201020202024
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 — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Porto, a weather station, about 15 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →