Weather Records on 28 August 1939

296 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 28 August 1939. Highest significance: Parry Sound, CA.

Key Facts for 28 August 1939

On 28 August 1939, 296 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
100 were record highs and 48 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 5 monthly and 291 daily.
Parry Sound set a daily record precipitation of 59.7 mm (2.4 in) on 28 August 1939.
Across 161 earlier years (1800 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 458 records.

Record Map

296 stations

296 station records on 28 August 1939 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 28 August 1939: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Parry Sound	Canada	Record daily precipitation	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Sanand	India	Record daily precipitation	269.2 mm (10.6 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Portland	Australia	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Zerbst	Germany	Record daily precipitation	48.7 mm (1.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Ahmadabad	India	Record daily precipitation	140.5 mm (5.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Pal-Lahara	India	Record daily precipitation	138.4 mm (5.4 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Gysinge	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Beaconsfield (Mine & Heritage	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Weissenfels	Germany	Record daily precipitation	42.0 mm (1.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Princetown	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Moab	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Heywood Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Nerchinskij Zavod	Russia	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Stockholm	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	18.4 C (65.1 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Cape Bridgewater	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Rupar	India	Record daily precipitation	88.4 mm (3.5 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Sheffield	Australia	Record daily precipitation	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Putbus	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Ericson 8 WNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Nelson	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Port Fairy Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Wadhwan	India	Record daily precipitation	85.3 mm (3.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Stockholm	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	26.5 C (79.7 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Eddystone Point	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Viramgam	India	Record daily precipitation	96.3 mm (3.8 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Linkoeping-Malmslaett	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Uppsala_Aut	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Tewantin Post Office	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	30.0 C (86.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Orebro	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	16.0 C (60.8 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Graham 2 ENE	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Boyatup	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Trentham (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Chapel Hill 2 W	United States	Record low maximum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Branxholm (Stoke Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Visby_Flygplats	Sweden	Record high maximum temperature	24.1 C (75.4 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Wickenburg	United States	Record low maximum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Esperance Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Zeehan Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Qu'appelle	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	30.6 C (87.1 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Minnedosa	Canada	Record high maximum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Karlshamn	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	17.5 C (63.5 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Vasteras-Hasslo	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	16.8 C (62.2 F)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Siwana	India	Record daily precipitation	71.9 mm (2.8 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Diamond Springs	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Naracoorte	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Port Fairy (Griffiths Island)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tyrendarra (Ellangowan)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Low Head (Comparison)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Longerenong	Australia	Record daily precipitation	10.7 mm (0.4 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Gavle	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sibasa	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Hailey 3 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	8.9 mm (0.35 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Swan Island Lighthouse	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Saguache	United States	Record daily precipitation	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Yerevan	Armenia	Record daily precipitation	4.8 mm (0.19 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Peterborough	Australia	Record daily precipitation	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Dartmoor	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.3 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Grand Junction Walker Fld	United States	Record daily precipitation	11.9 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Warragul	Australia	Record daily precipitation	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Ararat Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	21.8 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

296 records

Records set or tied on 28 August 1939 by type: Highest daily maximum 42, Lowest daily maximum 22, Highest daily minimum 58, Lowest daily minimum 26, Heaviest daily rainfall 148.

Records on 28 August 1939 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	42
Lowest daily maximum	22
Highest daily minimum	58
Lowest daily minimum	26
Heaviest daily rainfall	148
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 28 August 1939 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 5, daily 291.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

243 broken records

Margins by which the 243 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 118.1. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

28 August 1939

Top 20 records on 28 August 1939 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
28 August 1939	Parry Sound, CA	daily rain	59.7 mm (2.4 in)	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	45 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Sanand, IN	monthly rain	269.2 mm (10.6 in)	118.1 mm (4.6 in)	6 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Portland, AU	daily rain	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	18.1 mm (0.7 in)	43 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Zerbst, DE	daily rain	48.7 mm (1.9 in)	35.5 mm (1.4 in)	4 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Ahmadabad, IN	daily rain	140.5 mm (5.5 in)	61.5 mm (2.4 in)	36 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Pal-Lahara, IN	daily rain	138.4 mm (5.4 in)	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	32 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Gysinge, SE	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	55 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Beaconsfield (Mine & Heritage, AU	daily rain	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	8 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Weissenfels, DE	daily rain	42.0 mm (1.7 in)	24.2 mm (1.0 in)	4 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Princetown, AU	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	12.7 mm (0.5 in)	34 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Moab, US	monthly rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	9.1 mm (0.36 in)	18 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Heywood Post Office, AU	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	16.7 mm (0.7 in)	9 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Nerchinskij Zavod, RU	daily rain	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	23.5 mm (0.9 in)	33 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Stockholm, SE	daily high min	18.4 C (65.1 F)	4.4 C (7.9 F)	47 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
28 August 1939	Cape Bridgewater, AU	daily rain	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	16.8 mm (0.7 in)	0 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
28 August 1939	Rupar, IN	daily rain	88.4 mm (3.5 in)	62.5 mm (2.5 in)	16 years	34 of 100 (Routine)
28 August 1939	Sheffield, AU	daily rain	56.4 mm (2.2 in)	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	8 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
28 August 1939	Putbus, DE	daily high min	17.2 C (63.0 F)	1.2 C (2.2 F)	65 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
28 August 1939	Ericson 8 WNW, US	daily rain	34.8 mm (1.4 in)	19.1 mm (0.8 in)	32 years	31 of 100 (Routine)
28 August 1939	Nelson, AU	daily rain	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	10.4 mm (0.4 in)	14 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

1800 to 1939

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1800 to 1939. 1939 had 296 records.

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

Records on 08-28 in each year
Year	Records
1800	1
1807	4
1811	1
1814	2
1817	1
1835	1
1849	1
1850	1
1851	1
1854	1
1856	1
1858	1
1863	1
1864	4
1865	3
1870	2
1873	1
1874	1
1875	1
1876	1
1877	2
1880	3
1881	4
1884	1
1885	2
1886	1
1887	1
1889	1
1890	4
1891	1
1892	2
1893	3
1894	2
1895	4
1896	9
1897	3
1901	12
1902	2
1903	16
1904	13
1905	23
1906	12
1907	2
1908	10
1909	20
1910	5
1911	34
1912	44
1913	17
1914	40
1915	43
1916	141
1917	49
1918	43
1919	39
1920	80
1921	47
1922	60
1923	79
1924	207
1925	165
1926	241
1927	239
1928	252
1929	162
1930	152
1931	306
1932	383
1933	376
1934	346
1935	545
1936	531
1937	545
1938	325
1939	296
1940	368
1941	485
1942	461
1943	366
1944	592
1945	368
1946	495
1947	288
1948	1,133
1949	442
1950	492
1951	694
1952	447
1953	762
1954	499
1955	413
1956	327
1957	545
1958	288
1959	552
1960	470
1961	371
1962	469
1963	464
1964	556
1965	635
1966	338
1967	701
1968	864
1969	1,089
1970	617
1971	695
1972	651
1973	1,211
1974	816
1975	507
1976	505
1977	757
1978	774
1979	838
1980	424
1981	1,120
1982	1,009
1983	748
1984	886
1985	528
1986	1,995
1987	1,260
1988	953
1989	911
1990	983
1991	968
1992	1,814
1993	1,061
1994	688
1995	954
1996	1,109
1997	1,082
1998	1,415
1999	905
2000	1,028
2001	1,042
2002	903
2003	792
2004	966
2005	731
2006	1,244
2007	788
2008	889
2009	928
2010	914
2011	1,748
2012	682
2013	693
2014	590
2015	660
2016	812
2017	1,060
2018	1,110
2019	943
2020	1,008
2021	459
2022	388
2023	899
2024	862
2025	871
2026	873

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Data for records on 1939-08-28: CSV or JSON. Field meanings are on the data page.

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	227
20 to 40	12
40 to 60	0
60 to 80	2
80 to 100	1
100 to 120	1