Weather Records on 29 August 1957

392 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 29 August 1957. Highest significance: Hana 354, US.

Key Facts for 29 August 1957

On 29 August 1957, 392 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
39 were record highs and 140 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 13 monthly and 379 daily.
Hana 354 set a daily record precipitation of 52.1 mm (2.1 in) on 29 August 1957.
Across 161 earlier years (1807 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 452 records.

Record Map

392 stations

392 station records on 29 August 1957 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 29 August 1957: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Hana 354	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Red Cloud	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.8 mm (2.6 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Honokane 181.1	United States	Record daily precipitation	141.5 mm (5.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Ranpur	India	Record daily precipitation	114.8 mm (4.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Phillipsburg 1 SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Claude	United States	Record daily precipitation	61.7 mm (2.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Norton 9SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Redig 11 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Hilo 86A	United States	Record daily precipitation	91.9 mm (3.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Bilgram	India	Record daily precipitation	109.7 mm (4.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Stanford	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Aurora	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Harvey Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Clarendon	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Alakahi Lower 194	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Syracuse 1NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Sultanpur	India	Record daily precipitation	129.5 mm (5.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Radyr Park	Australia	Record daily precipitation	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Faizabad	India	Record daily precipitation	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Gardiner	United States	Record low minimum temperature	2.2 C (36.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Kearney 4 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Honokaa Town 215	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.1 mm (2.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Kaumana 88.1	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Koolau Dam 833	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Paauilo 221	United States	Record daily precipitation	93.2 mm (3.7 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Fatehpur	India	Record daily precipitation	80.5 mm (3.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Bridgeport	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Narsaraopet	India	Record daily precipitation	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Oberlin	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Clay Ctr 6 ESE	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Deeside	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Cranbrook	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Shahpura	India	Record daily precipitation	86.9 mm (3.4 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Champawat	India	Record daily precipitation	54.6 mm (2.1 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Collie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Shahganj	India	Record daily precipitation	102.9 mm (4.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Maharajganj	India	Record daily precipitation	83.1 mm (3.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Syktyvkar	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	28.5 C (83.3 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Tipton	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Hoxie	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Beaver City	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.1 mm (2.2 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Cowles	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Villa Ahumada	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Ithaca Cornell UNIV	United States	Record low minimum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Valley City 3 NNW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Muleshoe #1	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Hanksville	United States	Record low maximum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Irkutsk	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	9.5 C (49.1 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Rucker Canyon	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Lamar	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.7 mm (1.1 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Stapleton 5 SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Edgeley 3WNW	United States	Record low maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Wishek	United States	Record low maximum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Mylor	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Ayodhya Ajobhy	India	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Idria	United States	Record low minimum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Steele 4N	United States	Record low maximum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Paauhau 217	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.2 mm (2.5 in)	24 of 100 (Routine)
Shawinigan	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	2.8 C (37.0 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)
Niznij Novgorod	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.1 C (64.6 F)	23 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

392 records

Records set or tied on 29 August 1957 by type: Highest daily maximum 14, Lowest daily maximum 63, Highest daily minimum 25, Lowest daily minimum 77, Heaviest daily rainfall 213.

Records on 29 August 1957 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	14
Lowest daily maximum	63
Highest daily minimum	25
Lowest daily minimum	77
Heaviest daily rainfall	213
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 29 August 1957 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 13, daily 379.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

317 broken records

Margins by which the 317 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 66.6. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

29 August 1957

Top 20 records on 29 August 1957 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
29 August 1957	Hana 354, US	daily rain	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	39 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Red Cloud, US	daily rain	65.8 mm (2.6 in)	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	47 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Honokane 181.1, US	daily rain	141.5 mm (5.6 in)	66.6 mm (2.6 in)	43 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Ranpur, IN	daily rain	114.8 mm (4.5 in)	57.6 mm (2.3 in)	48 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Phillipsburg 1 SSE, US	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	46.9 mm (1.8 in)	12 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Claude, US	daily rain	61.7 mm (2.4 in)	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	43 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Norton 9SSE, US	daily rain	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	24.6 mm (1.0 in)	52 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Redig 11 NE, US	daily rain	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	28 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Hilo 86A, US	daily rain	91.9 mm (3.6 in)	48.7 mm (1.9 in)	46 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Bilgram, IN	daily rain	109.7 mm (4.3 in)	62.7 mm (2.5 in)	35 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Stanford, US	daily rain	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	24 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Aurora, US	daily rain	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	20 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Harvey Post Office, AU	daily rain	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	24.4 mm (1.0 in)	20 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Clarendon, US	daily rain	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	22 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Alakahi Lower 194, US	daily rain	81.3 mm (3.2 in)	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	38 years	37 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Syracuse 1NE, US	daily rain	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	4 years	36 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Sultanpur, IN	daily rain	129.5 mm (5.1 in)	55.3 mm (2.2 in)	16 years	35 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 1957	Radyr Park, AU	daily rain	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	22 years	33 of 100 (Routine)
29 August 1957	Faizabad, IN	daily rain	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	47 years	32 of 100 (Routine)
29 August 1957	Gardiner, US	monthly low min	2.2 C (36.0 F)	0.6 C (1.1 F)	47 years	32 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

1807 to 1957

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1807 to 1957. 1957 had 392 records.

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

Records on 08-29 in each year
Year	Records
1807	4
1814	2
1827	1
1834	1
1835	1
1837	1
1839	1
1844	1
1845	1
1850	1
1851	4
1863	1
1864	1
1865	2
1866	1
1869	1
1870	1
1875	1
1877	4
1878	1
1880	1
1881	1
1884	1
1885	3
1886	3
1887	1
1889	1
1891	1
1893	3
1894	6
1895	2
1896	10
1897	4
1898	2
1899	1
1900	1
1901	6
1902	7
1903	21
1904	7
1905	21
1906	14
1907	5
1908	12
1909	25
1910	9
1911	44
1912	36
1913	21
1914	32
1915	36
1916	59
1917	41
1918	28
1919	34
1920	76
1921	102
1922	41
1923	66
1924	250
1925	222
1926	403
1927	214
1928	288
1929	139
1930	170
1931	181
1932	675
1933	435
1934	459
1935	632
1936	297
1937	430
1938	253
1939	332
1940	395
1941	384
1942	654
1943	334
1944	338
1945	390
1946	702
1947	419
1948	1,096
1949	470
1950	557
1951	917
1952	345
1953	1,189
1954	438
1955	365
1956	351
1957	392
1958	240
1959	496
1960	499
1961	501
1962	400
1963	672
1964	483
1965	1,095
1966	463
1967	511
1968	887
1969	691
1970	481
1971	514
1972	635
1973	679
1974	874
1975	517
1976	547
1977	770
1978	755
1979	581
1980	521
1981	869
1982	1,164
1983	883
1984	1,230
1985	551
1986	2,408
1987	659
1988	1,237
1989	728
1990	1,009
1991	806
1992	1,417
1993	1,306
1994	596
1995	1,090
1996	1,056
1997	957
1998	1,452
1999	756
2000	1,076
2001	743
2002	921
2003	964
2004	813
2005	993
2006	1,156
2007	959
2008	716
2009	1,110
2010	1,184
2011	1,252
2012	901
2013	739
2014	419
2015	798
2016	576
2017	1,162
2018	890
2019	789
2020	827
2021	567
2022	437
2023	677
2024	1,047
2025	664
2026	797

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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 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 10	239
10 to 20	38
20 to 30	18
30 to 40	14
40 to 50	3
50 to 60	3
60 to 70	2