Weather Records on 5 July 1929

224 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 5 July 1929. Highest significance: Charleston, US.

Key Facts for 5 July 1929

On 5 July 1929, 224 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
19 were record highs and 31 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 3 monthly and 221 daily.
Charleston set a daily record precipitation of 101.6 mm (4.0 in) on 5 July 1929.
Across 170 earlier years (1796 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 421 records.

Record Map

224 stations

224 station records on 5 July 1929 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 5 July 1929: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Charleston	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Hallettsville 2 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	119.4 mm (4.7 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Auburn	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Bowling Green Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Deniliquin (Wilkinson St)	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	7.8 C (46.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Danevang 1 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Hallettsville 2 N	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Stirling	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Casey	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Bucyrus	United States	Record daily precipitation	85.1 mm (3.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Nebraska City 1 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Findlay Wpcc	United States	Record daily precipitation	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Oelrichs	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Seymour 1 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Scottsburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Beito	Norway	Record daily precipitation	37.2 mm (1.5 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Marengo	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Columbus 3 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Chippewa Lake	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Oakland	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Washington	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Salem	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Hiram	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Tuscola	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Napoleon	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Lincoln UNIV Pwr Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.5 mm (3.2 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Balaklava	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Coonalpyn	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hoyleton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Carawa	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Saddleworth	Australia	Record daily precipitation	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Clarendon	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Barker	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Manoora	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Blyth	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Belair (State Flora Nursery)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lyndoch	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Riverton	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Deal Island	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Burra (Kooringa)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Clare Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Collingrove	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Marrabel	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Terowie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	9.1 mm (0.36 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hallett (Old Canowie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hahndorf	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nairne	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hillston Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
De Vlei "de Kruis"	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Brinkworth (Anama Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Watervale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wolseley	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Merino (Glenorchy Estate)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hallett (Lorraine)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Koolunga	Australia	Record daily precipitation	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Templeton (Glenalbyn)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.7 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Stonyfell	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.6 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Redhill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	13.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Echunga Golf Course	Australia	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Vik I Sogn III	Norway	Record daily precipitation	18.2 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

224 records

Records set or tied on 5 July 1929 by type: Highest daily maximum 6, Lowest daily maximum 20, Highest daily minimum 13, Lowest daily minimum 11, Heaviest daily rainfall 174.

Records on 5 July 1929 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	6
Lowest daily maximum	20
Highest daily minimum	13
Lowest daily minimum	11
Heaviest daily rainfall	174
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 5 July 1929 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 3, daily 221.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

196 broken records

Margins by which the 196 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 104.2. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

5 July 1929

Top 20 records on 5 July 1929 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
5 July 1929	Charleston, US	daily rain	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	69.3 mm (2.7 in)	20 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 1929	Hallettsville 2 N, US	daily rain	119.4 mm (4.7 in)	104.2 mm (4.1 in)	22 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 1929	Auburn, AU	daily rain	28.7 mm (1.1 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	41 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 1929	Bowling Green Wwtp, US	daily rain	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	63.3 mm (2.5 in)	16 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 1929	Deniliquin (Wilkinson St), AU	daily low max	7.8 C (46.0 F)	3.3 C (5.9 F)	50 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 1929	Danevang 1 W, US	daily rain	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	51.0 mm (2.0 in)	24 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 1929	Hallettsville 2 N, US	daily low max	23.9 C (75.0 F)	6.1 C (11.0 F)	14 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Stirling, AU	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	43 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Casey, US	daily rain	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	24 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Bucyrus, US	monthly rain	85.1 mm (3.4 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	22 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Nebraska City 1 NW, US	daily rain	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	10 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Findlay Wpcc, US	daily rain	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	24 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Oelrichs, US	daily rain	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	8 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Seymour 1 WSW, US	daily rain	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	19.9 mm (0.8 in)	26 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Scottsburg, US	daily rain	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	4 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Beito, NO	daily rain	37.2 mm (1.5 in)	13.4 mm (0.5 in)	14 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Marengo, US	daily rain	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	0 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Columbus 3 NE, US	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	22.8 mm (0.9 in)	20 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Chippewa Lake, US	daily rain	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	24 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
5 July 1929	Oakland, US	daily high min	16.1 C (61.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	24 years	23 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

1796 to 1929

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1796 to 1929. 1929 had 224 records.

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

Records on 07-05 in each year
Year	Records
1796	1
1806	1
1816	1
1819	2
1822	1
1828	2
1835	1
1839	1
1841	1
1842	1
1844	1
1845	1
1852	1
1856	1
1858	1
1859	1
1860	2
1864	1
1866	1
1867	1
1868	1
1870	1
1871	1
1874	1
1876	2
1877	1
1878	1
1879	2
1881	6
1882	2
1883	1
1887	1
1888	1
1889	3
1890	6
1891	2
1892	2
1893	4
1894	1
1895	2
1896	1
1897	2
1898	3
1899	4
1900	8
1901	8
1902	11
1903	6
1904	4
1905	9
1906	25
1907	12
1908	10
1909	22
1910	33
1911	46
1912	12
1913	23
1914	56
1915	75
1916	37
1917	32
1918	30
1919	40
1920	206
1921	75
1922	66
1923	67
1924	112
1925	108
1926	183
1927	206
1928	185
1929	224
1930	233
1931	395
1932	344
1933	335
1934	505
1935	242
1936	714
1937	340
1938	328
1939	398
1940	352
1941	309
1942	443
1943	418
1944	438
1945	244
1946	273
1947	815
1948	655
1949	444
1950	480
1951	635
1952	341
1953	532
1954	417
1955	437
1956	499
1957	491
1958	634
1959	318
1960	515
1961	604
1962	324
1963	642
1964	421
1965	298
1966	305
1967	923
1968	828
1969	822
1970	552
1971	431
1972	1,580
1973	766
1974	488
1975	806
1976	639
1977	740
1978	804
1979	919
1980	557
1981	914
1982	981
1983	841
1984	832
1985	695
1986	1,155
1987	665
1988	1,828
1989	930
1990	1,103
1991	936
1992	937
1993	1,383
1994	1,137
1995	1,243
1996	1,130
1997	962
1998	957
1999	1,838
2000	729
2001	1,153
2002	892
2003	646
2004	853
2005	797
2006	974
2007	1,206
2008	779
2009	946
2010	1,085
2011	696
2012	1,356
2013	768
2014	420
2015	1,303
2016	932
2017	619
2018	754
2019	742
2020	416
2021	639
2022	855
2023	688
2024	1,030
2025	632
2026	505

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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	184
20 to 40	7
40 to 60	2
60 to 80	2
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	1