Weather Records on 26 December 1958

401 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 26 December 1958. Highest significance: Cumberland, CA.

Key Facts for 26 December 1958

On 26 December 1958, 401 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
43 were record highs and 123 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 3 were all-time records, 17 monthly and 381 daily.
Cumberland set a daily record precipitation of 99.8 mm (3.9 in) on 26 December 1958.
Across 153 earlier years (1798 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 538 records.

Record Map

401 stations

401 station records on 26 December 1958 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 26 December 1958: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Cumberland	Canada	Record daily precipitation	99.8 mm (3.9 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Oswego	United States	Record snow depth	63.5 cm (25.0 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Matatiele	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Mooga Hills	Australia	Record daily precipitation	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Goolma (Brooklyn)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Quebrangulo	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	38.5 mm (1.5 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Boggabri (Milchengowrie)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Woolners Arm	Australia	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Anadia	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	52.0 mm (2.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Cassilis (Dalkeith)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Baradine Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Boggabri (Penryn)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Myers Page Fld AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Spring Ridge	Australia	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Running Stream (Brooklyn)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Cicero Dantas	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Broken Hill (Stephens Creek Re	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Gordonville	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Bulsfontein	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Kazan	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-41.7 C (-43.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Krielsfontein	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Leyden	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	37.5 mm (1.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Gulgong Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	100.3 mm (3.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Tamworth Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Geurie Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Poretskoye	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-33.1 C (-27.6 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Broadwater Sugar Mill	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Rockley Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Weetaliba (Weetalabah)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Frei Paulo	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	84.5 mm (3.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Biser	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-45.7 C (-50.3 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Wollomombi (Wallamumbi)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Vosburg	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	36.5 mm (1.4 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Kaallaagte	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	53.0 mm (2.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Ilford (Tara)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Yeoval Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Baddeck	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	-9.4 C (15.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
The Meadows	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	52.0 mm (2.0 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Gulargambone (Yalcogrin St)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Wattle Flat General Store	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Niznij Novgorod	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-32.3 C (-26.1 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Perm	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-35.1 C (-31.2 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Borzja	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-19.6 C (-3.3 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Moree (Talmoi)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Weabonga (Stoneleigh)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Ellerston (Hunters Vale)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Niznij Novgorod	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-39.0 C (-38.2 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Bezenchuk	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-28.4 C (-19.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Ufa	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-37.4 C (-35.3 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Uman	Ukraine	Record high maximum temperature	6.6 C (43.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Injune Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Merriwa (Cranbourne)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Cherdyn'	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-43.0 C (-45.4 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Perm	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-41.2 C (-42.2 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Ekaterinburg	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	-35.5 C (-31.9 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Tatarsk	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-45.4 C (-49.7 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Drieputs	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Butler	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-20.6 C (-5.1 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Sofala Old Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Major Isidoro (Sertaozinho)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

401 records

Records set or tied on 26 December 1958 by type: Highest daily maximum 17, Lowest daily maximum 49, Highest daily minimum 26, Lowest daily minimum 74, Heaviest daily rainfall 219, Heaviest daily snowfall 10, Deepest snow cover 6.

Records on 26 December 1958 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	17
Lowest daily maximum	49
Highest daily minimum	26
Lowest daily minimum	74
Heaviest daily rainfall	219
Heaviest daily snowfall	10
Deepest snow cover	6

Records on 26 December 1958 by timescale: all-time 3, monthly 17, daily 381.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

362 broken records

Margins by which the 362 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 381.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

26 December 1958

Top 20 records on 26 December 1958 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
26 December 1958	Cumberland, CA	daily rain	99.8 mm (3.9 in)	57.9 mm (2.3 in)	36 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Oswego, US	daily snow depth	63.5 cm (25.0 in)	38.1 cm (15.0 in)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Matatiele, ZA	daily rain	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	41 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Mooga Hills, AU	daily rain	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	72.2 mm (2.8 in)	17 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Goolma (Brooklyn), AU	daily rain	82.6 mm (3.3 in)	80.3 mm (3.2 in)	11 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Quebrangulo, BR	daily rain	38.5 mm (1.5 in)	35.9 mm (1.4 in)	43 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Boggabri (Milchengowrie), AU	daily rain	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	44.9 mm (1.8 in)	15 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Woolners Arm, AU	daily rain	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	61.5 mm (2.4 in)	13 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Anadia, BR	daily rain	52.0 mm (2.0 in)	32.1 mm (1.3 in)	39 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Cassilis (Dalkeith), AU	daily rain	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	17.2 mm (0.7 in)	70 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Baradine Post Office, AU	daily rain	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	52 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Boggabri (Penryn), AU	daily rain	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	44 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Ft Myers Page Fld AP, US	daily rain	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	65 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Spring Ridge, AU	daily rain	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	35 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Running Stream (Brooklyn), AU	daily rain	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	44 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Cicero Dantas, BR	daily rain	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	43 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Broken Hill (Stephens Creek Re, AU	daily rain	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	24 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Gordonville, ZA	daily rain	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	48 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Bulsfontein, ZA	daily rain	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	15 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 1958	Kazan, RU	monthly low min	-41.7 C (-43.1 F)	3.7 C (6.7 F)	65 years	39 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

1798 to 1958

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1798 to 1958. 1958 had 401 records.

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

Records on 12-26 in each year
Year	Records
1798	2
1806	2
1810	1
1824	1
1835	1
1839	1
1848	1
1852	4
1853	2
1868	1
1872	2
1875	1
1876	1
1881	2
1882	1
1885	1
1886	3
1888	2
1889	3
1891	1
1892	3
1893	1
1894	2
1895	4
1896	6
1897	1
1898	3
1899	10
1900	8
1901	6
1902	11
1903	4
1904	4
1905	3
1906	18
1907	12
1908	13
1909	36
1910	8
1911	48
1912	79
1913	47
1914	135
1915	62
1916	27
1917	41
1918	49
1919	53
1920	84
1921	123
1922	215
1923	302
1924	295
1925	151
1926	148
1927	104
1928	342
1929	190
1930	218
1931	289
1932	395
1933	658
1934	267
1935	659
1936	1,106
1937	170
1938	336
1939	347
1940	535
1941	436
1942	916
1943	344
1944	266
1945	295
1946	458
1947	508
1948	619
1949	310
1950	425
1951	330
1952	148
1953	215
1954	269
1955	668
1956	541
1957	676
1958	401
1959	974
1960	333
1961	352
1962	816
1963	321
1964	1,280
1965	443
1966	327
1967	545
1968	1,019
1969	850
1970	365
1971	1,116
1972	527
1973	717
1974	1,078
1975	1,010
1976	534
1977	757
1978	658
1979	369
1980	2,348
1981	761
1982	1,769
1983	3,763
1984	568
1985	1,102
1986	495
1987	2,414
1988	1,662
1989	733
1990	1,253
1991	679
1992	507
1993	822
1994	1,034
1995	1,426
1996	2,024
1997	1,101
1998	554
1999	1,057
2000	1,390
2001	642
2002	947
2003	730
2004	778
2005	976
2006	866
2007	674
2008	1,119
2009	1,580
2010	1,746
2011	1,019
2012	1,300
2013	480
2014	569
2015	2,352
2016	1,592
2017	719
2018	449
2019	830
2020	402
2021	1,205
2022	1,111
2023	1,127
2024	541
2025	1,661

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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 50	356
50 to 100	5
100 to 150	0
150 to 200	0
200 to 250	0
250 to 300	0
300 to 350	0
350 to 400	1