Weather Records on 5 May 1938

362 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 5 May 1938. Highest significance: Clarinda, US.

Key Facts for 5 May 1938

On 5 May 1938, 362 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
127 were record highs and 124 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 8 monthly and 354 daily.
Clarinda set a daily record precipitation of 55.1 mm (2.2 in) on 5 May 1938.
Across 160 earlier years (1795 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 444 records.

Record Map

362 stations

362 station records on 5 May 1938 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 5 May 1938: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Clarinda	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Sahebganj	India	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Raipur	India	Record daily precipitation	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Two Harbors	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Creston 2 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Montevideo 1SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Hayward Rs	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Bremen-Seefahrtschule	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-1.0 C (30.2 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Sfax El-Maou	Tunisia	Record low maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Maple Plain	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Pine Rvr Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Hambantota	Sri Lanka	Record high minimum temperature	27.1 C (80.8 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Taylors Falls 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Baltimore Customs House	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Carroll	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
New Ulm 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Redwood Falls Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Leipzig-Holzhausen	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-1.3 C (29.7 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Clinton 2	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Deer Park Sf	United States	Record high minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Willmar Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Philipsburg	United States	Record low maximum temperature	-1.1 C (30.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Kremsmuenster	Austria	Record low minimum temperature	-0.5 C (31.1 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Fairmont	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Sandy Lake Dam Libby	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
St Charles Elm Pt	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Heinersreuth-Vollhof	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-3.0 C (26.6 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Le Mars	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Pontotoc	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Fortine 1 N	United States	Record low maximum temperature	5.6 C (42.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Morgan	United States	Record low maximum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Salzburg	Austria	Record low minimum temperature	-0.4 C (31.3 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Nurnberg	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-1.1 C (30.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Plauen	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-2.4 C (27.7 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Jaipur	India	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
American Falls 6 NE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Mora	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Philipsburg	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-8.9 C (16.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Bancroft	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Namdalseid	Norway	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Winnipeg St Johns Coll	Canada	Record daily precipitation	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Chas	India	Record daily precipitation	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Mahackala	Russia	Record daily precipitation	14.6 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Forbes (Camp Street)	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	0.0 C (32.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Bamberg	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-1.6 C (29.1 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Havana	United States	Record daily precipitation	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Alta	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Forest City 2 NNE	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Inwood 2 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Le Claire	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Muscatine 2	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Horton	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Milan 1NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dayton Mcd	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Coldwater	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	-3.0 C (26.6 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Steamboat Springs	United States	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Galva	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Cambridge City 3 N	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Madison Sewage Plt	United States	Record high minimum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	19 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

362 records

Records set or tied on 5 May 1938 by type: Highest daily maximum 38, Lowest daily maximum 69, Highest daily minimum 89, Lowest daily minimum 55, Heaviest daily rainfall 105, Heaviest daily snowfall 6.

Records on 5 May 1938 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	38
Lowest daily maximum	69
Highest daily minimum	89
Lowest daily minimum	55
Heaviest daily rainfall	105
Heaviest daily snowfall	6
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 5 May 1938 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 8, daily 354.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

288 broken records

Margins by which the 288 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 56.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

5 May 1938

Top 20 records on 5 May 1938 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
5 May 1938	Clarinda, US	daily rain	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	42.1 mm (1.7 in)	5 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1938	Sahebganj, IN	daily rain	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	15 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1938	Raipur, IN	daily rain	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	33 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1938	Two Harbors, US	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	5 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1938	Creston 2 SW, US	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	24 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
5 May 1938	Montevideo 1SW, US	daily rain	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	36 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Hayward Rs, US	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	13.9 mm (0.5 in)	43 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Bremen-Seefahrtschule, DE	monthly low min	-1.0 C (30.2 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	45 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Sfax El-Maou, TN	daily low max	15.0 C (59.0 F)	4.0 C (7.2 F)	36 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Maple Plain, US	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	15.2 mm (0.6 in)	33 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Pine Rvr Dam, US	daily rain	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	21.4 mm (0.8 in)	25 years	28 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Hambantota, LK	daily high min	27.1 C (80.8 F)	0.4 C (0.7 F)	56 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Taylors Falls 1 NE, US	daily rain	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	5 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Baltimore Customs House, US	daily rain	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	1.5 mm (0.06 in)	66 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Carroll, US	daily rain	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	18.2 mm (0.7 in)	29 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	New Ulm 2 SE, US	daily rain	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	18.5 mm (0.7 in)	7 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Redwood Falls Muni AP, US	daily rain	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	45 years	26 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Leipzig-Holzhausen, DE	daily low min	-1.3 C (29.7 F)	1.4 C (2.5 F)	51 years	25 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Clinton 2, US	daily rain	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	14.2 mm (0.6 in)	29 years	24 of 100 (Routine)
5 May 1938	Deer Park Sf, US	daily high min	11.7 C (53.1 F)	4.5 C (8.1 F)	36 years	24 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 1938

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1795 to 1938. 1938 had 362 records.

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

Records on 05-05 in each year
Year	Records
1795	2
1805	1
1836	1
1837	1
1840	1
1850	4
1852	1
1855	1
1856	2
1859	2
1861	5
1862	1
1864	2
1867	1
1875	2
1877	2
1878	1
1879	2
1880	1
1882	1
1884	2
1885	1
1886	3
1888	3
1889	5
1890	2
1891	3
1892	5
1894	3
1895	2
1896	1
1897	2
1898	6
1899	5
1900	3
1901	2
1902	5
1903	9
1904	14
1905	17
1906	4
1907	16
1908	14
1909	17
1910	19
1911	17
1912	17
1913	46
1914	39
1915	73
1916	98
1917	70
1918	24
1919	77
1920	41
1921	63
1922	98
1923	139
1924	132
1925	143
1926	220
1927	115
1928	149
1929	256
1930	469
1931	250
1932	166
1933	339
1934	448
1935	417
1936	377
1937	159
1938	362
1939	222
1940	446
1941	415
1942	529
1943	427
1944	1,237
1945	355
1946	306
1947	528
1948	671
1949	1,099
1950	893
1951	174
1952	723
1953	659
1954	607
1955	382
1956	363
1957	561
1958	404
1959	587
1960	773
1961	644
1962	261
1963	249
1964	643
1965	724
1966	1,413
1967	613
1968	434
1969	530
1970	386
1971	444
1972	292
1973	542
1974	716
1975	711
1976	402
1977	708
1978	1,033
1979	1,534
1980	562
1981	524
1982	659
1983	475
1984	767
1985	463
1986	968
1987	895
1988	820
1989	941
1990	1,511
1991	1,176
1992	1,004
1993	725
1994	743
1995	888
1996	1,368
1997	1,220
1998	1,707
1999	1,301
2000	1,442
2001	963
2002	883
2003	1,792
2004	1,401
2005	1,009
2006	657
2007	850
2008	453
2009	751
2010	1,053
2011	857
2012	1,281
2013	1,265
2014	680
2015	783
2016	554
2017	849
2018	481
2019	538
2020	403
2021	733
2022	514
2023	579
2024	961
2025	717
2026	538

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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	254
10 to 20	24
20 to 30	7
30 to 40	1
40 to 50	1
50 to 60	1