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Has the climate in Colonia del Sacramento changed?

Colonia del Sacramento has warmed about 1.5°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Colonia del Sacramento'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? Colonia del Sacramento's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Uruguay — 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.

Average temperature
+1.0°F
1970s
64.0°F
Recent
65.0°F
A steady upward drift

Colonia del Sacramento's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

60°62°64°66°68°1991: 63.9°F1992: 61.9°F1993: 63.6°F1994: 64.6°F1995: 63.7°F1996: 64.5°F1997: 64.8°F1998: 64.1°F1999: 63.6°F2000: 63.8°F2001: 64.9°F2002: 64.4°F2003: 64.0°F2004: 64.5°F2005: 64.2°F2006: 64.8°F2007: 63.1°F2008: 64.9°F2009: 64.4°F2010: 64.6°F2011: 64.4°F2012: 65.1°F2013: 64.7°F2014: 65.4°F2015: 65.4°F2016: 64.2°F2017: 66.0°F2018: 65.2°F2019: 65.0°F2020: 64.4°F2021: 64.6°F2022: 64.1°F2023: 65.8°F2024: 64.8°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 Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, a weather station, about 54 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →