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Has the climate in Sensuntepeque changed?

Sensuntepeque has warmed about 2.8°F between 1996 and 2024.

About 1.0°F per decade, measured from Sensuntepeque's official daily weather records, 1996–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Sensuntepeque's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in El Salvador.

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
+1.7°F
1970s
77.2°F
Recent
78.9°F
A steady upward drift

Sensuntepeque's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1996 to 2024.

74°76°78°80°82°1996: 75.7°F1997: 76.9°F1998: 77.3°F2001: 77.1°F2002: 77.9°F2003: 77.8°F2004: 78.0°F2005: 77.1°F2006: 77.1°F2007: 78.1°F2008: 77.2°F2009: 77.6°F2010: 76.8°F2011: 76.9°F2012: 77.5°F2013: 77.6°F2014: 77.5°F2015: 78.8°F2016: 78.2°F2017: 77.5°F2018: 77.3°F2019: 77.7°F2020: 79.9°F2021: 79.7°F2022: 78.8°F2023: 80.8°F2024: 80.6°Flong-term trend1996201020202024
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 25 years of daily observations at Ilopango Intl, a weather station, about 57 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →