Weather Records on 31 July 1953

414 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 31 July 1953. Highest significance: Cumbam, IN.

Key Facts for 31 July 1953

On 31 July 1953, 414 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
168 were record highs and 70 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 7 monthly and 405 daily.
Cumbam set a daily record precipitation of 72.6 mm (2.9 in) on 31 July 1953.
Across 155 earlier years (1804 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 471 records.

Record Map

414 stations

414 station records on 31 July 1953 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 31 July 1953: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Cumbam	India	Record daily precipitation	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Ignacio 1 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
St Peter	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.9 mm (2.2 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Hatch	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Sholapur	India	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Calmar	Canada	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Nalgonda	India	Record daily precipitation	90.4 mm (3.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Gurjala(Gurujala)	India	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Athabasca	Canada	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Sion	Canada	Record daily precipitation	95.3 mm (3.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Campsie	Canada	Record daily precipitation	57.7 mm (2.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Medicine Lake 3 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Modasa	India	Record daily precipitation	182.4 mm (7.2 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Osmanabad	India	Record daily precipitation	85.3 mm (3.4 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Dahiwadi	India	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Emerson	Canada	Record daily precipitation	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Milan 1NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	61.7 mm (2.4 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Kadipur	India	Record daily precipitation	137.7 mm (5.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Buique	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	58.5 mm (2.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Arnsberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	43.3 mm (1.7 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Mummidivaram	India	Record daily precipitation	130.6 mm (5.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Gajapathinagaram	India	Record daily precipitation	74.4 mm (2.9 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bajandaj	Russia	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Redwood Falls Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bathurst Gaol	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Gidhour	India	Record daily precipitation	113.0 mm (4.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Pilger	Canada	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Atmakur	India	Record daily precipitation	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Holmogadd A	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	27.3 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Montevideo 1SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.8 mm (2.7 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Mirajgaon	India	Record daily precipitation	68.1 mm (2.7 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Fredericksburg Np	United States	Record high maximum temperature	40.0 C (104.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kiev	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Crested Butte	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Houma	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.1 mm (2.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Sindgi	India	Record daily precipitation	130.0 mm (5.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Holalkhere	India	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Artichoke Lake 1 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.2 mm (1.8 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Waseca S Rsch & Outreach Ctr	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Mc Minnville	United States	Record low minimum temperature	2.8 C (37.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Asheville	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Regina Int'l A	Canada	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Altastenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	32.7 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Bijapur	India	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Siljansfors	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Mildred	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Monticello 2E	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Cobar Post Office	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Aschersleben	Germany	Record daily precipitation	31.6 mm (1.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Polavaram	India	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Chuda	India	Record daily precipitation	86.4 mm (3.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Sfax El-Maou	Tunisia	Record high minimum temperature	25.5 C (77.9 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Bird Island	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Chapel Hill 2 W	United States	Record high maximum temperature	38.3 C (100.9 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Woodruff	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Prince	Canada	Record daily precipitation	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Clausthal-Zellerfeld	Germany	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
New Ulm 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Tullahoma	United States	Record daily precipitation	56.6 mm (2.2 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Entrance	Canada	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

414 records

Records set or tied on 31 July 1953 by type: Highest daily maximum 88, Lowest daily maximum 52, Highest daily minimum 80, Lowest daily minimum 18, Heaviest daily rainfall 176.

Records on 31 July 1953 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	88
Lowest daily maximum	52
Highest daily minimum	80
Lowest daily minimum	18
Heaviest daily rainfall	176
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 31 July 1953 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 7, daily 405.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

303 broken records

Margins by which the 303 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 87.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

31 July 1953

Top 20 records on 31 July 1953 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
31 July 1953	Cumbam, IN	daily rain	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	32 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Ignacio 1 N, US	daily rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	24.9 mm (1.0 in)	31 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	St Peter, US	daily rain	56.9 mm (2.2 in)	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	40 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Hatch, US	daily rain	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	31 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Sholapur, IN	daily rain	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	42 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Calmar, CA	daily rain	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	16 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Nalgonda, IN	daily rain	90.4 mm (3.6 in)	38.3 mm (1.5 in)	50 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Gurjala(Gurujala), IN	daily rain	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	19 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Athabasca, CA	daily rain	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	32 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Sion, CA	all-time rain	95.3 mm (3.8 in)	9.7 mm (0.38 in)	39 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Campsie, CA	daily rain	57.7 mm (2.3 in)	30.3 mm (1.2 in)	28 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Medicine Lake 3 SE, US	daily rain	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	22 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Modasa, IN	daily rain	182.4 mm (7.2 in)	87.4 mm (3.4 in)	39 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Osmanabad, IN	daily rain	85.3 mm (3.4 in)	35.5 mm (1.4 in)	42 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Dahiwadi, IN	daily rain	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	8 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Emerson, CA	all-time rain	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	6.4 mm (0.25 in)	33 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Milan 1NW, US	daily rain	61.7 mm (2.4 in)	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	8 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Kadipur, IN	daily rain	137.7 mm (5.4 in)	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	36 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Buique, BR	daily rain	58.5 mm (2.3 in)	29.4 mm (1.2 in)	27 years	38 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 1953	Arnsberg, DE	daily rain	43.3 mm (1.7 in)	13.5 mm (0.5 in)	36 years	36 of 100 (Notable)

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

1804 to 1953

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1804 to 1953. 1953 had 414 records.

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

Records on 07-31 in each year
Year	Records
1804	1
1815	1
1816	1
1828	1
1834	1
1839	1
1840	1
1841	2
1851	1
1858	2
1860	4
1863	1
1866	1
1873	2
1876	1
1879	1
1884	1
1885	1
1886	1
1887	5
1889	2
1890	2
1891	1
1892	1
1893	3
1894	2
1896	2
1897	2
1898	5
1900	1
1901	3
1902	4
1903	16
1904	12
1905	10
1906	14
1907	17
1908	22
1909	15
1910	21
1911	29
1912	14
1913	31
1914	28
1915	71
1916	63
1917	126
1918	39
1919	27
1920	168
1921	112
1922	24
1923	236
1924	97
1925	349
1926	226
1927	161
1928	145
1929	134
1930	143
1931	441
1932	314
1933	504
1934	449
1935	418
1936	548
1937	297
1938	417
1939	357
1940	415
1941	323
1942	342
1943	342
1944	312
1945	499
1946	426
1947	341
1948	341
1949	406
1950	511
1951	364
1952	472
1953	414
1954	459
1955	813
1956	574
1957	268
1958	374
1959	424
1960	622
1961	504
1962	348
1963	294
1964	637
1965	858
1966	606
1967	326
1968	637
1969	440
1970	576
1971	1,850
1972	667
1973	583
1974	363
1975	1,386
1976	530
1977	543
1978	754
1979	501
1980	1,047
1981	672
1982	767
1983	901
1984	777
1985	1,065
1986	1,021
1987	934
1988	940
1989	1,753
1990	911
1991	647
1992	1,169
1993	1,031
1994	1,207
1995	1,223
1996	1,084
1997	984
1998	1,195
1999	1,643
2000	1,001
2001	1,414
2002	1,080
2003	1,157
2004	779
2005	742
2006	1,405
2007	1,023
2008	911
2009	1,156
2010	1,485
2011	1,040
2012	712
2013	469
2014	1,000
2015	948
2016	501
2017	485
2018	1,135
2019	551
2020	1,034
2021	1,020
2022	861
2023	671
2024	748
2025	836
2026	754

Download the Data

Data for records on 1953-07-31: 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	268
20 to 40	26
40 to 60	7
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	1