Weather Records on 7 August 1931

357 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 7 August 1931. Highest significance: Sveg, SE.

Key Facts for 7 August 1931

On 7 August 1931, 357 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
132 were record highs and 49 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 13 monthly and 344 daily.
Sveg set a daily record precipitation of 36.5 mm (1.4 in) on 7 August 1931.
Across 163 earlier years (1808 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 471 records.

Record Map

357 stations

357 station records on 7 August 1931 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 7 August 1931: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Sveg	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	36.5 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Barwani	India	Record daily precipitation	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Talegaon	India	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Union Springs 9 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	124.5 mm (4.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Bologna	Italy	Record high minimum temperature	26.8 C (80.2 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Bolivar Wtr Wks	United States	Record daily precipitation	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Loudon 1 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.1 mm (2.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ekaterinburg	Russia	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Belur	India	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Cheyenne Wells 2NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Moorhead St Teachers C	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Hosanagar	India	Record daily precipitation	153.7 mm (6.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Eraniel	India	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Vanersborg	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Korumburra	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Bardstown	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Madrid	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Constantine	Algeria	Record high minimum temperature	27.0 C (80.6 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Narsinghpur	India	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Fergus Falls	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Hvar	Croatia	Record high maximum temperature	35.5 C (95.9 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Salisbury	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Napoleon	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Aska	India	Record daily precipitation	73.4 mm (2.9 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Chinook	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Edmonton	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	11.1 C (52.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Shahjahanpur	India	Record daily precipitation	86.1 mm (3.4 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Tilhar	India	Record daily precipitation	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Junsele	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	26.5 mm (1.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Gannavaram	India	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Guhagar	India	Record daily precipitation	115.3 mm (4.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Naduvattam	India	Record daily precipitation	100.6 mm (4.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Bedford Hills	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.2 C (99.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Brookings 2 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Yellapur	India	Record daily precipitation	143.8 mm (5.7 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Karlshamn	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	16.5 C (61.7 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Wahpeton 3 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Bloomfield	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	35.0 C (95.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Selbu-Stubbe	Norway	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Sfax El-Maou	Tunisia	Record high minimum temperature	27.0 C (80.6 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
W Pt	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Duchesne	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Flinders State School	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bigga (Woolbrook)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Collbran	United States	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Cambridge Niab	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Wollar (Barrigan St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.7 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Fairy (Griffiths Island)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dawson	Canada	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Karkal	India	Record daily precipitation	204.2 mm (8.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mandangad	India	Record daily precipitation	134.9 mm (5.3 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lifjell	Norway	Record daily precipitation	48.9 mm (1.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Decatur	United States	Record low maximum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Boorowa Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Greenethorpe (Iandra)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Pecs Pogany	Hungary	Record high maximum temperature	36.8 C (98.2 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Budapest	Hungary	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Baindur	India	Record daily precipitation	143.5 mm (5.6 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Amraoti	India	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Aramboly	India	Record daily precipitation	10.4 mm (0.4 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

357 records

Records set or tied on 7 August 1931 by type: Highest daily maximum 46, Lowest daily maximum 32, Highest daily minimum 86, Lowest daily minimum 17, Heaviest daily rainfall 176.

Records on 7 August 1931 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	46
Lowest daily maximum	32
Highest daily minimum	86
Lowest daily minimum	17
Heaviest daily rainfall	176
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 7 August 1931 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 13, daily 344.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

294 broken records

Margins by which the 294 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 80.2. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

7 August 1931

Top 20 records on 7 August 1931 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
7 August 1931	Sveg, SE	daily rain	36.5 mm (1.4 in)	23.3 mm (0.9 in)	39 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 1931	Barwani, IN	daily rain	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	29 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 1931	Talegaon, IN	daily rain	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	80.2 mm (3.2 in)	26 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 1931	Union Springs 9 S, US	daily rain	124.5 mm (4.9 in)	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	21 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 1931	Bologna, IT	daily high min	26.8 C (80.2 F)	1.4 C (2.5 F)	107 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 1931	Bolivar Wtr Wks, US	monthly rain	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	29 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 1931	Loudon 1 E, US	daily rain	68.1 mm (2.7 in)	40.7 mm (1.6 in)	9 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
7 August 1931	Ekaterinburg, RU	daily rain	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	9.8 mm (0.39 in)	49 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Belur, IN	monthly rain	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	13 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Cheyenne Wells 2NE, US	daily rain	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	30.4 mm (1.2 in)	24 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Moorhead St Teachers C, US	daily rain	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	25 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Hosanagar, IN	daily rain	153.7 mm (6.1 in)	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	4 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Eraniel, IN	daily rain	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	30.3 mm (1.2 in)	8 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Vanersborg, SE	daily rain	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	10.1 mm (0.4 in)	35 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Korumburra, AU	daily rain	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	24 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Bardstown, US	daily rain	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	28.5 mm (1.1 in)	10 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Madrid, US	daily rain	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	30 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Constantine, DZ	daily high min	27.0 C (80.6 F)	6.0 C (10.8 F)	10 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Narsinghpur, IN	daily rain	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	58.2 mm (2.3 in)	6 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
7 August 1931	Fergus Falls, US	daily rain	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 years	27 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

1808 to 1931

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1808 to 1931. 1931 had 357 records.

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

Records on 08-07 in each year
Year	Records
1808	1
1812	1
1815	1
1816	1
1817	1
1833	2
1844	1
1845	1
1848	1
1857	3
1858	1
1859	2
1861	1
1866	1
1868	1
1869	3
1870	2
1875	1
1876	5
1879	1
1880	2
1882	1
1883	1
1884	2
1886	1
1887	2
1888	5
1889	2
1891	3
1892	3
1893	1
1894	1
1895	7
1896	2
1897	2
1898	4
1899	1
1900	6
1901	3
1902	5
1903	17
1904	8
1905	8
1906	9
1907	10
1908	13
1909	11
1910	1
1911	36
1912	31
1913	39
1914	24
1915	40
1916	50
1917	21
1918	108
1919	36
1920	36
1921	55
1922	61
1923	101
1924	128
1925	81
1926	115
1927	109
1928	188
1929	181
1930	486
1931	357
1932	249
1933	310
1934	608
1935	507
1936	286
1937	446
1938	568
1939	561
1940	271
1941	305
1942	340
1943	601
1944	332
1945	882
1946	500
1947	461
1948	756
1949	587
1950	541
1951	562
1952	556
1953	378
1954	589
1955	536
1956	321
1957	868
1958	571
1959	356
1960	344
1961	356
1962	718
1963	522
1964	446
1965	552
1966	400
1967	701
1968	600
1969	523
1970	652
1971	969
1972	1,172
1973	568
1974	746
1975	1,177
1976	1,168
1977	617
1978	1,210
1979	559
1980	871
1981	855
1982	727
1983	1,207
1984	840
1985	1,088
1986	544
1987	1,146
1988	897
1989	1,472
1990	1,625
1991	1,217
1992	1,236
1993	1,040
1994	1,262
1995	1,521
1996	1,107
1997	1,460
1998	1,183
1999	950
2000	871
2001	1,386
2002	907
2003	1,244
2004	1,400
2005	882
2006	923
2007	1,309
2008	918
2009	1,121
2010	1,098
2011	1,282
2012	688
2013	665
2014	501
2015	1,027
2016	505
2017	954
2018	636
2019	609
2020	605
2021	397
2022	880
2023	1,221
2024	835
2025	733
2026	1,047

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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	257
20 to 40	26
40 to 60	9
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	1