Weather Records on 29 July 1936

348 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 29 July 1936. Highest significance: Holyoke, US.

Key Facts for 29 July 1936

On 29 July 1936, 348 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
195 were record highs and 42 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 9 were all-time records, 10 monthly and 329 daily.
Holyoke set an all-time record daily precipitation of 115.6 mm (4.6 in) on 29 July 1936.
Across 165 earlier years (1797 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 450 records.

Record Map

348 stations

348 station records on 29 July 1936 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 29 July 1936: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Holyoke	United States	Record daily precipitation	115.6 mm (4.6 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Biswan	India	Record daily precipitation	245.1 mm (9.6 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Kiev	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	24.0 C (75.2 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Gavar	Armenia	Record daily precipitation	46.6 mm (1.8 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Khalilabad	India	Record daily precipitation	127.5 mm (5.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Mahendraganj	India	Record daily precipitation	146.1 mm (5.8 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
N Ghasan Sr	India	Record daily precipitation	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Tranqubar	India	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Virudhunagar	India	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Sitapur	India	Record daily precipitation	115.1 mm (4.5 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Madurai	India	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Imperial	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Sivaganga	India	Record daily precipitation	90.4 mm (3.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Uman	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	37.4 C (99.3 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Odesa	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	27.4 C (81.3 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Kheri	India	Record daily precipitation	230.1 mm (9.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Needles	United States	Record low maximum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Nikolaev	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	38.8 C (101.8 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Union 3 SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Altastenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	39.8 mm (1.6 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Cheraw	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Spearfish	United States	Record high minimum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Myers Page Fld AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	60.5 mm (2.4 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Markapur	India	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Siliguri	India	Record daily precipitation	90.4 mm (3.6 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Ft Myers Page Fld AP	United States	Record low maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Tbilisi	Georgia	Record daily precipitation	30.6 mm (1.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Poltava	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	23.0 C (73.4 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Burlington	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Ponneri	India	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Ai-Petri	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	20.7 C (69.3 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Arantangi	India	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Kiev	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	38.0 C (100.4 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Canton 4N	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.8 mm (2.7 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Greenville Dwtn AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Hambantota	Sri Lanka	Record high maximum temperature	35.3 C (95.5 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Madhugiri	India	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Sikandra Rao	India	Record daily precipitation	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Coimbra	Portugal	Record low minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Baia Mare	Romania	Record high minimum temperature	21.5 C (70.7 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Odesa	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	36.2 C (97.2 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Leroy 5 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Anderson	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Medicine Hat A	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Feodosiia	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	26.9 C (80.4 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Westcliffe	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Kolar	India	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Gorakhpur	India	Record daily precipitation	68.8 mm (2.7 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Arcadia	United States	Record low maximum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Milan Exp STN	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
White Cliffs (Purnanga)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Baku	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	6.1 mm (0.24 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Manti	United States	Record daily precipitation	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Pte de Chassiron	France	Record daily precipitation	22.0 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yerevan	Armenia	Record daily precipitation	9.7 mm (0.38 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Karlshamn	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	Record daily precipitation	6.3 mm (0.25 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lankaran	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Caroleen	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Darlington	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

348 records

Records set or tied on 29 July 1936 by type: Highest daily maximum 81, Lowest daily maximum 26, Highest daily minimum 114, Lowest daily minimum 16, Heaviest daily rainfall 111.

Records on 29 July 1936 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	81
Lowest daily maximum	26
Highest daily minimum	114
Lowest daily minimum	16
Heaviest daily rainfall	111
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 29 July 1936 by timescale: all-time 9, monthly 10, daily 329.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

259 broken records

Margins by which the 259 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 91.2. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

29 July 1936

Top 20 records on 29 July 1936 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
29 July 1936	Holyoke, US	all-time rain	115.6 mm (4.6 in)	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	33 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	Biswan, IN	monthly rain	245.1 mm (9.6 in)	84.3 mm (3.3 in)	10 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	Kiev, UA	all-time high min	24.0 C (75.2 F)	1.5 C (2.7 F)	54 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	Gavar, AM	daily rain	46.6 mm (1.8 in)	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	39 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	Khalilabad, IN	daily rain	127.5 mm (5.0 in)	91.2 mm (3.6 in)	27 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	Mahendraganj, IN	daily rain	146.1 mm (5.8 in)	80.3 mm (3.2 in)	30 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	N Ghasan Sr, IN	daily rain	127.0 mm (5.0 in)	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	29 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	Tranqubar, IN	daily rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	2 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	Virudhunagar, IN	daily rain	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	47.4 mm (1.9 in)	16 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	Sitapur, IN	daily rain	115.1 mm (4.5 in)	60.2 mm (2.4 in)	20 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	Madurai, IN	daily rain	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	16 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	Imperial, US	daily rain	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	27.1 mm (1.1 in)	31 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1936	Sivaganga, IN	monthly rain	90.4 mm (3.6 in)	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	21 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
29 July 1936	Uman, UA	all-time high max	37.4 C (99.3 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	33 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
29 July 1936	Odesa, UA	all-time high min	27.4 C (81.3 F)	2.3 C (4.1 F)	6 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
29 July 1936	Kheri, IN	all-time rain	230.1 mm (9.1 in)	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	3 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
29 July 1936	Needles, US	monthly low max	28.9 C (84.0 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	36 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
29 July 1936	Nikolaev, UA	all-time high max	38.8 C (101.8 F)	0.2 C (0.4 F)	30 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
29 July 1936	Union 3 SSE, US	daily rain	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	33 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
29 July 1936	Altastenberg, DE	daily rain	39.8 mm (1.6 in)	13.3 mm (0.5 in)	22 years	30 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

1797 to 1936

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1797 to 1936. 1936 had 348 records.

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

Records on 07-29 in each year
Year	Records
1797	1
1807	1
1815	1
1824	1
1830	1
1834	1
1838	1
1843	1
1845	2
1848	1
1851	1
1853	1
1857	1
1858	3
1859	1
1860	3
1867	3
1868	2
1869	1
1872	2
1873	1
1875	1
1877	2
1881	1
1883	1
1884	2
1886	2
1887	2
1888	2
1889	1
1890	4
1891	2
1893	2
1894	4
1895	4
1896	1
1897	5
1898	7
1899	1
1900	5
1901	15
1902	3
1903	16
1904	14
1905	17
1906	13
1907	31
1908	28
1909	45
1910	22
1911	48
1912	35
1913	33
1914	130
1915	15
1916	186
1917	50
1918	28
1919	29
1920	94
1921	94
1922	83
1923	168
1924	90
1925	427
1926	154
1927	119
1928	297
1929	347
1930	343
1931	401
1932	217
1933	501
1934	957
1935	280
1936	348
1937	276
1938	345
1939	434
1940	539
1941	400
1942	201
1943	433
1944	263
1945	429
1946	384
1947	434
1948	510
1949	511
1950	744
1951	333
1952	712
1953	251
1954	445
1955	463
1956	408
1957	364
1958	620
1959	383
1960	611
1961	563
1962	410
1963	462
1964	510
1965	709
1966	417
1967	370
1968	744
1969	630
1970	465
1971	1,609
1972	665
1973	459
1974	463
1975	894
1976	506
1977	712
1978	551
1979	601
1980	864
1981	1,496
1982	699
1983	1,022
1984	1,173
1985	823
1986	842
1987	1,412
1988	744
1989	1,008
1990	745
1991	765
1992	620
1993	1,063
1994	1,695
1995	1,295
1996	1,085
1997	979
1998	1,251
1999	1,271
2000	898
2001	1,205
2002	1,294
2003	1,166
2004	1,167
2005	1,334
2006	1,085
2007	1,116
2008	852
2009	1,311
2010	1,691
2011	1,012
2012	656
2013	1,159
2014	1,061
2015	833
2016	580
2017	608
2018	653
2019	496
2020	480
2021	667
2022	1,058
2023	803
2024	694
2025	859
2026	979

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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	237
20 to 40	14
40 to 60	3
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	4