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Has the climate in Mérida changed?

Mérida has warmed about 3.2°F between 1971 and 2015.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Mérida's official daily weather records, 1971–2015. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Mérida's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Venezuela.

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
+2.1°F
1970s
68.1°F
Recent
70.3°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
2 more days
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
2 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
100 fewer days
1970s
213 / yr
Recent
113 / yr
Drier on average

Mérida's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2015.

65°67°69°71°73°1971: 66.6°F1972: 67.7°F1973: 68.1°F1974: 67.6°F1975: 67.1°F1976: 67.4°F1977: 68.8°F1978: 68.4°F1979: 68.5°F1980: 69.0°F1981: 68.7°F1982: 68.7°F1983: 69.5°F1984: 68.2°F1985: 67.4°F1986: 68.0°F1987: 69.4°F1988: 67.8°F1989: 67.9°F1990: 68.6°F1991: 69.0°F1992: 69.8°F1993: 69.3°F1994: 68.8°F1995: 69.5°F1996: 68.8°F1997: 70.0°F1998: 70.6°F1999: 69.1°F2000: 68.9°F2001: 69.8°F2002: 70.5°F2003: 70.4°F2004: 70.1°F2005: 70.6°F2006: 70.2°F2007: 70.4°F2008: 69.5°F2009: 70.7°F2010: 71.2°F2011: 69.2°F2012: 69.9°F2013: 70.1°F2014: 70.4°F2015: 71.1°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102015
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.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°January: +0.7°F+0.7JFebruary: +0.7°F+0.7FMarch: +0.6°F+0.6MApril: +0.8°F+0.8AMay: +0.7°F+0.7MJune: +0.1°F+0.1JJuly: +0.7°F+0.7JAugust: +0.9°F+0.9ASeptember: +0.8°F+0.8SOctober: +0.9°F+0.9ONovember: +0.8°F+0.8NDecember: +1.2°F+1.2D

December has warmed the most — about 1.2°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 10 years of daily observations at Merida, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →