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Has the climate in Maracaibo changed?

Maracaibo has warmed about 1°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Maracaibo'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? Maracaibo's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Venezuela — 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
84.2°F
Recent
85.2°F
A steady upward drift

Maracaibo's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

81°83°85°87°1991: 85.3°F1992: 83.0°F1993: 83.0°F1994: 83.9°F1995: 83.8°F1996: 84.6°F1997: 86.0°F1999: 82.9°F2000: 83.1°F2002: 84.9°F2003: 84.2°F2004: 83.2°F2005: 83.1°F2006: 82.8°F2007: 83.3°F2008: 84.4°F2009: 85.8°F2010: 85.5°F2011: 84.2°F2012: 85.0°F2013: 85.4°F2014: 85.8°F2024: 84.7°Flong-term trend1991200020102024
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 24 years of daily observations at LA Chinita Intl, a weather station, about 16 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →