Weather Records on 20 January 1918

71 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 20 January 1918. Highest significance: Uccle, BE.

Key Facts for 20 January 1918

On 20 January 1918, 71 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
22 were record highs and 33 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 1 monthly and 69 daily.
Uccle set a daily record high maximum temperature of 13.0 C (55.4 F) on 20 January 1918.
Across 157 earlier years (1795 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 514 records.

Record Map

71 stations

71 station records on 20 January 1918 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 20 January 1918: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Uccle	Belgium	Record high maximum temperature	13.0 C (55.4 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Stornoway Airport	United Kingdom	Record low minimum temperature	-8.3 C (17.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Gunnedah Pool	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Morgantown 1	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-8.9 C (16.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Uccle	Belgium	Record high minimum temperature	9.1 C (48.4 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Jena Sternwarte	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	12.4 C (54.3 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Harrisburg - Coop	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-22.2 C (-8.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Chattanooga Wb City	United States	Record daily snowfall	9.4 cm (3.7 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Arnsberg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	14.0 C (57.2 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Junsele	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record daily precipitation	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nidingen A	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Little Rock St Capitol	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-5.6 C (21.9 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Innsbruck	Austria	Record high maximum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	18 of 100 (Routine)
Landsort	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	10.5 mm (0.4 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Baltimore Customs House	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-5.6 C (21.9 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Washington	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-5.6 C (21.9 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Bamberg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Maseskar	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	10.5 mm (0.4 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Morgantown 1	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-18.3 C (-0.9 F)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Port Stanley	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	-10.6 C (12.9 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Varberg	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	7.9 mm (0.31 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Vineland	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-5.0 C (23.0 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Dubuque River	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-25.6 C (-14.1 F)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Coldwater	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	-15.0 C (5.0 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Lucknow	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-23.3 C (-9.9 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Sandvig	Denmark	Record high maximum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Vasteras-Hasslo	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	10.7 mm (0.4 in)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Malvern	United States	Record low maximum temperature	1.1 C (34.0 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Lexington Bluegrass AP	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-8.9 C (16.0 F)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Alton	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	-15.0 C (5.0 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Plauen	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	11.2 C (52.2 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Uman	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	1.0 C (33.8 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Blue Hill Coop	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-10.0 C (14.0 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Buffalo	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-11.1 C (12.0 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Karlsruhe	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	12.6 C (54.7 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Hohenpeissenberg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	10.1 C (50.2 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Little Rock St Capitol	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-12.8 C (9.0 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Setauket Strong	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-7.2 C (19.0 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Harrisburg - Coop	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-7.8 C (18.0 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Sonnblick	Austria	Record high maximum temperature	-3.5 C (25.7 F)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Alton	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	-26.7 C (-16.1 F)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Nurnberg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	11.4 C (52.5 F)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Freiburg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	13.5 C (56.3 F)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Arnsberg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Alma	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-27.8 C (-18.0 F)	11 of 100 (Routine)
State College	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-10.6 C (12.9 F)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Hohenpeissenberg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	5.7 C (42.3 F)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Zagreb-Gric	Croatia	Record high minimum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Halden	Norway	Record snow depth	35.0 cm (13.8 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Newport	United States	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Tomsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	3.4 mm (0.13 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Nikolaevsk-Na-Amure	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-13.6 C (7.5 F)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Vineland	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-16.1 C (3.0 F)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Sonnblick	Austria	Record high minimum temperature	-6.8 C (19.8 F)	8 of 100 (Routine)
North Bruce	Canada	Record daily snowfall	6.4 cm (2.5 in)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Altastenberg	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	3.7 C (38.7 F)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Perm	Russia	Record daily precipitation	4.6 mm (0.18 in)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Kiev	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	4.0 C (39.2 F)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-10.0 C (14.0 F)	6 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

71 records

Records set or tied on 20 January 1918 by type: Highest daily maximum 13, Lowest daily maximum 17, Highest daily minimum 9, Lowest daily minimum 16, Heaviest daily rainfall 11, Heaviest daily snowfall 3, Deepest snow cover 2.

Records on 20 January 1918 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	13
Lowest daily maximum	17
Highest daily minimum	9
Lowest daily minimum	16
Heaviest daily rainfall	11
Heaviest daily snowfall	3
Deepest snow cover	2

Records on 20 January 1918 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 1, daily 69.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

60 broken records

Margins by which the 60 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 84.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

20 January 1918

Top 20 records on 20 January 1918 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
20 January 1918	Uccle, BE	daily high max	13.0 C (55.4 F)	0.9 C (1.6 F)	77 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Stornoway Airport, GB	daily low min	-8.3 C (17.1 F)	4.4 C (7.9 F)	36 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Gunnedah Pool, AU	daily low min	10.0 C (50.0 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	37 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Morgantown 1, US	daily low max	-8.9 C (16.0 F)	5.6 C (10.1 F)	42 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Uccle, BE	daily high min	9.1 C (48.4 F)	1.5 C (2.7 F)	42 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Jena Sternwarte, DE	daily high max	12.4 C (54.3 F)	0.8 C (1.4 F)	42 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Harrisburg - Coop, US	daily low min	-22.2 C (-8.0 F)	7.8 C (14.0 F)	14 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Chattanooga Wb City, US	daily snowfall	9.4 cm (3.7 in)	8.4 cm (3.3 in)	3 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Arnsberg, DE	monthly high max	14.0 C (57.2 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	28 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Junsele, SE	daily rain	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	3.9 mm (0.15 in)	33 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij, RU	daily rain	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	12 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Nidingen A, SE	daily rain	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	5.6 mm (0.22 in)	23 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Little Rock St Capitol, US	daily low max	-5.6 C (21.9 F)	6.2 C (11.2 F)	25 years	19 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Innsbruck, AT	daily high max	11.7 C (53.1 F)	3.7 C (6.7 F)	22 years	18 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Landsort, SE	daily rain	10.5 mm (0.4 in)	2.2 mm (0.09 in)	17 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Baltimore Customs House, US	daily low max	-5.6 C (21.9 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	38 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Washington, US	daily low max	-5.6 C (21.9 F)	0.6 C (1.1 F)	38 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Bamberg, DE	daily high max	10.6 C (51.1 F)	1.8 C (3.2 F)	27 years	16 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Maseskar, SE	daily rain	10.5 mm (0.4 in)	1.6 mm (0.06 in)	27 years	16 of 100 (Routine)
20 January 1918	Morgantown 1, US	daily low min	-18.3 C (-0.9 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	42 years	16 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

1795 to 1918

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1795 to 1918. 1918 had 71 records.

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

Records on 01-20 in each year
Year	Records
1795	2
1796	1
1798	1
1804	2
1820	1
1844	1
1850	1
1858	2
1861	1
1862	1
1863	1
1866	2
1867	1
1872	1
1874	4
1875	4
1878	1
1879	1
1880	5
1881	4
1885	1
1890	2
1891	1
1892	3
1893	3
1894	1
1895	2
1896	1
1897	3
1898	6
1899	12
1900	15
1901	11
1902	5
1903	4
1904	14
1905	2
1906	25
1907	26
1908	9
1909	30
1910	11
1911	3
1912	7
1913	44
1914	57
1915	153
1916	34
1917	123
1918	71
1919	28
1920	103
1921	45
1922	86
1923	41
1924	298
1925	181
1926	110
1927	381
1928	383
1929	203
1930	540
1931	90
1932	139
1933	441
1934	118
1935	904
1936	602
1937	1,041
1938	219
1939	238
1940	1,147
1941	214
1942	979
1943	1,002
1944	568
1945	302
1946	487
1947	534
1948	422
1949	429
1950	653
1951	958
1952	386
1953	476
1954	791
1955	278
1956	906
1957	349
1958	494
1959	603
1960	329
1961	641
1962	1,162
1963	921
1964	567
1965	283
1966	634
1967	556
1968	1,096
1969	859
1970	1,301
1971	936
1972	823
1973	450
1974	978
1975	688
1976	848
1977	997
1978	1,669
1979	1,158
1980	423
1981	823
1982	958
1983	847
1984	1,957
1985	2,188
1986	1,327
1987	1,063
1988	1,637
1989	955
1990	1,257
1991	562
1992	493
1993	1,327
1994	2,035
1995	1,136
1996	851
1997	658
1998	576
1999	1,368
2000	1,132
2001	667
2002	666
2003	732
2004	451
2005	1,335
2006	1,395
2007	2,143
2008	1,366
2009	738
2010	986
2011	731
2012	848
2013	432
2014	480
2015	413
2016	726
2017	1,370
2018	634
2019	722
2020	498
2021	375
2022	346
2023	778
2024	841
2025	1,599
2026	193

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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 20	58
20 to 40	0
40 to 60	1
60 to 80	0
80 to 100	1