Weather Records on 29 September 1916

184 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 29 September 1916. Highest significance: Gorlitz, DE.

Key Facts for 29 September 1916

On 29 September 1916, 184 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
8 were record highs and 11 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 4 monthly and 180 daily.
Gorlitz set a daily record precipitation of 31.5 mm (1.2 in) on 29 September 1916.
Across 157 earlier years (1836 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 451 records.

Record Map

184 stations

184 station records on 29 September 1916 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 29 September 1916: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Gorlitz	Germany	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Tottenham (Woodlands 1)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Barellan Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Manilla Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
West Wyalong (Tallimbalong)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Bygoo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Pennyroyal Creek	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Mount Macedon	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Euabalong (Lachlan St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Mandamar	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Macedon Forestry	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Burra Burra	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
State College	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Euabalong (Booberoi)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Blackwood	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
The Rock (Bullenbong)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Temora Ambulance Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Dandaloo (Tyrie Homestead)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Mundarlo (Yabtree)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Genoa	Italy	Record daily precipitation	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Euabolong (Brotherony)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Bega (Newtown Road)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Yalgogrin South	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Karlsruhe	Germany	Record daily precipitation	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Moruya Heads Pilot Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	100.8 mm (4.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Nymagee (Kenmure Station)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Eremeran	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Belaringar Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Bedooba	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Lake Cowal	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Melrose Plains	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Trundle (Murrumbogie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Sydney (Observatory Hill)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Milton Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Tarcutta Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Wagga Wagga (Kooringal)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Rowlesburg 1	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Campbelltown 1	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Paris	Canada	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Crown St. Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Bowral Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Mittagong (Beatrice Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Tarcutta	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Briagolong	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Ballan	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Cape May 2 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Tottenham (Burdenda)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Gulgong Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Coonabarabran (Namoi Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Eden (Caravan Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Wantabadgery	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Westminster	Canada	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Sydney	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Greenville Dwtn AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Scone (Philip Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Botany No.1 Dam	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Nowra Council Offices	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Mallan (Niemur Valley)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Condobolin (Borambil Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bacchus Marsh	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

184 records

Records set or tied on 29 September 1916 by type: Highest daily maximum 4, Lowest daily maximum 10, Highest daily minimum 4, Lowest daily minimum 1, Heaviest daily rainfall 165.

Records on 29 September 1916 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	4
Lowest daily maximum	10
Highest daily minimum	4
Lowest daily minimum	1
Heaviest daily rainfall	165
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 29 September 1916 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 4, daily 180.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

173 broken records

Margins by which the 173 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 37.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

29 September 1916

Top 20 records on 29 September 1916 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
29 September 1916	Gorlitz, DE	daily rain	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	33 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Tottenham (Woodlands 1), AU	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	18 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Barellan Post Office, AU	daily rain	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	18 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Manilla Post Office, AU	monthly rain	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	27.6 mm (1.1 in)	8 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	West Wyalong (Tallimbalong), AU	daily rain	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	23 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Bygoo, AU	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	18 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Pennyroyal Creek, AU	daily rain	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	22.3 mm (0.9 in)	26 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Mount Macedon, AU	daily rain	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	5 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Euabalong (Lachlan St), AU	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	23 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Mandamar, AU	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	23 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Macedon Forestry, AU	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	41 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Burra Burra, AU	daily rain	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	16 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	State College, US	daily rain	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	37.4 mm (1.5 in)	5 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Euabalong (Booberoi), AU	daily rain	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	23 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Blackwood, AU	daily rain	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	24.7 mm (1.0 in)	31 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	The Rock (Bullenbong), AU	daily rain	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	18 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
29 September 1916	Temora Ambulance Station, AU	daily rain	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	5 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
29 September 1916	Dandaloo (Tyrie Homestead), AU	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	18 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
29 September 1916	Mundarlo (Yabtree), AU	daily rain	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	18 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
29 September 1916	Genoa, IT	daily rain	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	3.1 mm (0.12 in)	76 years	32 of 100 (Routine)

Significance is a score from 0 to 100 combining margin, the age of the old record and the length of the station's record. How it is computed.

The Same Date in Other Years

1836 to 1916

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1836 to 1916. 1916 had 184 records.

Counts for years before the ledger starts come from the same station rules.

Records on 09-29 in each year
Year	Records
1836	1
1843	1
1854	2
1859	2
1861	1
1862	1
1864	1
1867	1
1868	1
1869	2
1871	1
1873	3
1874	1
1877	2
1881	1
1882	1
1883	2
1884	2
1885	4
1886	1
1887	1
1888	3
1889	3
1890	4
1892	4
1893	1
1894	4
1895	4
1897	5
1898	4
1899	9
1900	3
1901	7
1902	14
1903	11
1904	26
1905	11
1906	16
1907	26
1908	20
1909	10
1910	10
1911	64
1912	27
1913	20
1914	24
1915	43
1916	184
1917	19
1918	36
1919	38
1920	22
1921	148
1922	33
1923	89
1924	264
1925	166
1926	195
1927	236
1928	212
1929	243
1930	71
1931	204
1932	234
1933	353
1934	394
1935	188
1936	399
1937	276
1938	423
1939	407
1940	346
1941	511
1942	858
1943	390
1944	398
1945	899
1946	265
1947	467
1948	334
1949	398
1950	472
1951	475
1952	404
1953	1,079
1954	814
1955	375
1956	380
1957	636
1958	309
1959	1,066
1960	143
1961	447
1962	481
1963	996
1964	1,154
1965	689
1966	498
1967	1,250
1968	184
1969	279
1970	629
1971	797
1972	637
1973	769
1974	730
1975	365
1976	636
1977	800
1978	569
1979	581
1980	874
1981	747
1982	911
1983	920
1984	1,447
1985	1,789
1986	1,624
1987	641
1988	554
1989	710
1990	416
1991	747
1992	833
1993	620
1994	967
1995	1,033
1996	1,356
1997	683
1998	1,295
1999	1,440
2000	965
2001	846
2002	557
2003	924
2004	754
2005	1,163
2006	695
2007	929
2008	461
2009	700
2010	1,110
2011	1,572
2012	737
2013	623
2014	548
2015	724
2016	912
2017	433
2018	582
2019	2,193
2020	444
2021	790
2022	600
2023	866
2024	1,391
2025	516
2026	544

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Sources: Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Made with Natural Earth. Public domain map data. Borders are Natural Earth's de facto depiction. Data as of 2026-10-17 (17 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 5	70
5 to 10	34
10 to 15	24
15 to 20	26
20 to 25	7
25 to 30	6
30 to 35	4
35 to 40	2