Weather Records on 22 December 1936

274 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 22 December 1936. Highest significance: Bolaram, IN.

Key Facts for 22 December 1936

On 22 December 1936, 274 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
135 were record highs and 6 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 4 monthly and 270 daily.
Bolaram set a daily record precipitation of 37.1 mm (1.5 in) on 22 December 1936.
Across 163 earlier years (1793 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 513 records.

Record Map

274 stations

274 station records on 22 December 1936 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 22 December 1936: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Bolaram	India	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Begumpet Obsy	India	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Tenterden	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Portland Rfc City	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Barkola	India	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
North Lakhimpur	India	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Bongaon	India	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Howrah	India	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Patacharkuchi	India	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Nalbari	India	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Honokane 181.1	United States	Record daily precipitation	184.9 mm (7.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Awini 182.1	United States	Record daily precipitation	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Seattle Urban Site	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Calcutta/Alipore	India	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Vancouver 4 NNE	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Panskura	India	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Syktyvkar	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	0.2 C (32.4 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Bijni	India	Record daily precipitation	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yardea	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sultan Bazar	India	Record daily precipitation	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kopati(Kaupati)	India	Record daily precipitation	14.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kulikuchi	India	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sangareddi(Rev)	India	Record daily precipitation	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Jaffirband	India	Record daily precipitation	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mandakata	India	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nazira	India	Record daily precipitation	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ron	India	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Vang I Valdres	Norway	Record daily precipitation	12.4 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Princeton	Canada	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bikrampur	India	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Gauhati Obsy	India	Record daily precipitation	9.9 mm (0.39 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Selonah	India	Record daily precipitation	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sonari	India	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Budge Budge	India	Record daily precipitation	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Galway	Ireland	Record daily precipitation	20.9 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Singimari	India	Record daily precipitation	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hajo	India	Record daily precipitation	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kachugaon	India	Record daily precipitation	21.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Katwa	India	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Storlien	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	13.1 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mangaldai	India	Record daily precipitation	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dhubri	India	Record daily precipitation	11.4 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Badami	India	Record daily precipitation	11.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Curnomona (Curnamona)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mutooroo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.4 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Inglewood Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Burrabogie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Chanchal	India	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Kukrahati	India	Record daily precipitation	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Townsend	United States	Record daily precipitation	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Glen Boree	Australia	Record daily precipitation	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Nunong	Australia	Record daily precipitation	3.8 mm (0.15 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Vishnupur	India	Record daily precipitation	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Lilydale Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Barpeta	India	Record daily precipitation	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tebessa	Algeria	Record daily precipitation	6.9 mm (0.27 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Teryawynia	Australia	Record daily precipitation	6.4 mm (0.25 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Henley Woolshed	Australia	Record daily precipitation	8.6 mm (0.34 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Windsor Kings College	Canada	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Badarpur	India	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

274 records

Records set or tied on 22 December 1936 by type: Highest daily maximum 76, Lowest daily maximum 5, Highest daily minimum 59, Lowest daily minimum 1, Heaviest daily rainfall 131, Heaviest daily snowfall 2.

Records on 22 December 1936 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	76
Lowest daily maximum	5
Highest daily minimum	59
Lowest daily minimum	1
Heaviest daily rainfall	131
Heaviest daily snowfall	2
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 22 December 1936 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 4, daily 270.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

238 broken records

Margins by which the 238 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 68.1. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

22 December 1936

Top 20 records on 22 December 1936 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
22 December 1936	Bolaram, IN	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	35 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 1936	Begumpet Obsy, IN	daily rain	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	35 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 1936	Tenterden, AU	daily rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	36 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 1936	Portland Rfc City, US	daily rain	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	18.1 mm (0.7 in)	53 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 1936	Barkola, IN	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	29 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
22 December 1936	North Lakhimpur, IN	daily rain	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	24.2 mm (1.0 in)	31 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Bongaon, IN	daily rain	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	25.1 mm (1.0 in)	22 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Howrah, IN	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	34 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Patacharkuchi, IN	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	31 years	29 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Nalbari, IN	daily rain	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	15.7 mm (0.6 in)	31 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Honokane 181.1, US	daily rain	184.9 mm (7.3 in)	68.1 mm (2.7 in)	20 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Awini 182.1, US	daily rain	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	27 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Seattle Urban Site, US	daily rain	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	18.6 mm (0.7 in)	7 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Calcutta/Alipore, IN	monthly rain	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	4.1 mm (0.16 in)	22 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Vancouver 4 NNE, US	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	3 years	23 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Panskura, IN	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	8.8 mm (0.35 in)	34 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Syktyvkar, RU	daily high min	0.2 C (32.4 F)	3.8 C (6.8 F)	46 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Bijni, IN	daily rain	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	22.8 mm (0.9 in)	31 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Yardea, AU	daily rain	20.3 mm (0.8 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	50 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
22 December 1936	Sultan Bazar, IN	daily rain	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	35 years	20 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

1793 to 1936

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1936. 1936 had 274 records.

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

Records on 12-22 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1801	1
1804	1
1808	3
1824	1
1825	1
1844	1
1846	1
1855	6
1857	2
1859	1
1860	2
1863	1
1867	1
1868	1
1869	1
1870	2
1872	2
1874	1
1875	5
1877	1
1879	2
1880	1
1881	2
1882	1
1884	1
1886	2
1888	3
1889	2
1890	1
1891	2
1893	2
1894	4
1895	2
1896	1
1897	1
1898	2
1899	4
1900	2
1901	7
1902	9
1903	11
1904	3
1905	6
1906	13
1907	8
1908	29
1909	32
1910	28
1911	31
1912	37
1913	29
1914	159
1915	58
1916	62
1917	12
1918	64
1919	23
1920	36
1921	196
1922	29
1923	267
1924	396
1925	135
1926	188
1927	101
1928	114
1929	285
1930	97
1931	723
1932	219
1933	729
1934	119
1935	536
1936	274
1937	301
1938	248
1939	143
1940	436
1941	850
1942	812
1943	237
1944	624
1945	700
1946	264
1947	445
1948	378
1949	1,063
1950	428
1951	536
1952	447
1953	350
1954	510
1955	1,041
1956	878
1957	425
1958	544
1959	274
1960	1,353
1961	215
1962	521
1963	1,305
1964	1,184
1965	343
1966	279
1967	1,252
1968	1,478
1969	917
1970	984
1971	621
1972	719
1973	1,055
1974	498
1975	647
1976	605
1977	493
1978	363
1979	731
1980	580
1981	1,099
1982	637
1983	4,061
1984	794
1985	867
1986	523
1987	815
1988	699
1989	4,643
1990	3,228
1991	1,034
1992	522
1993	1,087
1994	920
1995	1,130
1996	939
1997	866
1998	1,106
1999	939
2000	925
2001	491
2002	652
2003	1,046
2004	899
2005	880
2006	1,390
2007	1,478
2008	1,000
2009	992
2010	1,632
2011	779
2012	837
2013	1,867
2014	915
2015	1,562
2016	550
2017	488
2018	514
2019	763
2020	948
2021	293
2022	1,047
2023	893
2024	477
2025	1,417

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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 10	197
10 to 20	29
20 to 30	8
30 to 40	2
40 to 50	1
50 to 60	0
60 to 70	1