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Has the climate in Key West changed?

Key West has warmed about 0.6°F since 2013.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Key West's official daily weather records, 2013–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Key West's warming is broadly in line with other cities in United States — 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
+0.4°F
1970s
78.4°F
Recent
78.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
21 more days
1970s
58 / yr
Recent
79 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
3 fewer days
1970s
112 / yr
Recent
109 / yr
Drier on average

Key West's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2013 to 2025.

76°78°80°2013: 78.0°F2014: 77.7°F2015: 79.5°F2016: 78.3°F2017: 78.5°F2018: 78.1°F2019: 79.0°F2020: 78.9°F2021: 78.2°F2022: 78.6°F2023: 79.4°F2024: 78.7°F2025: 78.4°Flong-term trend201320202025
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 NOAA's U.S. Climate Normals, measured at Key W Wfo (NOAA GHCN station USC00084571), inside the city.

How we build these numbers →