Weather Records on 20 July 1964

416 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 20 July 1964. Highest significance: Kanakapura, IN.

Key Facts for 20 July 1964

On 20 July 1964, 416 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
105 were record highs and 96 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 7 monthly and 408 daily.
Kanakapura set a daily record precipitation of 69.9 mm (2.8 in) on 20 July 1964.
Across 161 earlier years (1809 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 459 records.

Record Map

416 stations

416 station records on 20 July 1964 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 20 July 1964: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Kanakapura	India	Record daily precipitation	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Sangola	India	Record daily precipitation	69.4 mm (2.7 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Kalahasti	India	Record daily precipitation	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Jackson	United States	Record daily precipitation	87.9 mm (3.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Manamathurai	India	Record daily precipitation	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Kewaunee	United States	Record daily precipitation	96.8 mm (3.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Mehkar	India	Record daily precipitation	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Palamner	India	Record daily precipitation	85.0 mm (3.3 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Chittoor	India	Record daily precipitation	87.0 mm (3.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Sodam	India	Record daily precipitation	68.4 mm (2.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Arni	India	Record daily precipitation	76.0 mm (3.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Rajim	India	Record daily precipitation	118.0 mm (4.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Port Blair	India	Record daily precipitation	166.0 mm (6.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Vladikavkaz	Russia	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ambalapuza	India	Record daily precipitation	127.5 mm (5.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Shirpur	India	Record daily precipitation	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Radford 5 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Toolleen (Ryan)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Muzaffarpur	India	Record daily precipitation	161.2 mm (6.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Khamaria	India	Record daily precipitation	150.2 mm (5.9 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Princeton	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Kuppam	India	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Dodballapur	India	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Marquette	United States	Record high maximum temperature	32.2 C (90.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Burrowye	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Kolora (Wooriwyrite)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Cerro Cora	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Cheyyar	India	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Blue	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Smoko	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Jamkhandi	India	Record daily precipitation	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Multai	India	Record daily precipitation	80.4 mm (3.2 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Wallajah	India	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Donegaon	India	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Adelong Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Pierces Creek Forestry	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Kohala Mis 175.1	United States	Record low maximum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Merton Weir Farm	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Graz	Austria	Record high minimum temperature	18.7 C (65.7 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Vaniyambadi	India	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Melur	India	Record daily precipitation	37.2 mm (1.5 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Verhojansk	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	0.3 C (32.5 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Westfield 2 SSE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	31.1 C (88.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Neerim South	Australia	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Porto	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	34.2 mm (1.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Pocharam	India	Record daily precipitation	186.4 mm (7.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Timboon	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Innsbruck	Austria	Record high maximum temperature	32.3 C (90.1 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Uniao Dos Palmares	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	34.1 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Tada	India	Record daily precipitation	35.2 mm (1.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Chikhalda Sr	India	Record daily precipitation	111.0 mm (4.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Hingoli	India	Record daily precipitation	85.9 mm (3.4 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Gudiyatham	India	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Ekaterinburg	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.5 C (65.3 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Irkutsk	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	14.8 C (58.6 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Alice	United States	Record low maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Trawalla	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Yambuk (Avalon)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	26 of 100 (Routine)
Drummonds	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	25 of 100 (Routine)
Stuttgart-Stadt	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	32.2 C (90.0 F)	25 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

416 records

Records set or tied on 20 July 1964 by type: Highest daily maximum 53, Lowest daily maximum 46, Highest daily minimum 52, Lowest daily minimum 50, Heaviest daily rainfall 215.

Records on 20 July 1964 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	53
Lowest daily maximum	46
Highest daily minimum	52
Lowest daily minimum	50
Heaviest daily rainfall	215
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 20 July 1964 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 7, daily 408.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

327 broken records

Margins by which the 327 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 67.9. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

20 July 1964

Top 20 records on 20 July 1964 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
20 July 1964	Kanakapura, IN	daily rain	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	62 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Sangola, IN	daily rain	69.4 mm (2.7 in)	50.1 mm (2.0 in)	41 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Kalahasti, IN	daily rain	72.6 mm (2.9 in)	52.8 mm (2.1 in)	31 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Jackson, US	daily rain	87.9 mm (3.5 in)	60.2 mm (2.4 in)	25 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Manamathurai, IN	daily rain	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	67.9 mm (2.7 in)	24 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Kewaunee, US	daily rain	96.8 mm (3.8 in)	46.0 mm (1.8 in)	31 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Mehkar, IN	daily rain	88.9 mm (3.5 in)	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	61 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Palamner, IN	daily rain	85.0 mm (3.3 in)	42.6 mm (1.7 in)	48 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Chittoor, IN	daily rain	87.0 mm (3.4 in)	34.9 mm (1.4 in)	49 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Sodam, IN	daily rain	68.4 mm (2.7 in)	60.4 mm (2.4 in)	3 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Arni, IN	daily rain	76.0 mm (3.0 in)	37.4 mm (1.5 in)	49 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Rajim, IN	daily rain	118.0 mm (4.6 in)	54.5 mm (2.1 in)	55 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Port Blair, IN	daily rain	166.0 mm (6.5 in)	62.9 mm (2.5 in)	28 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Vladikavkaz, RU	daily rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	53 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Ambalapuza, IN	daily rain	127.5 mm (5.0 in)	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	40 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Shirpur, IN	daily rain	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	51 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Radford 5 SW, US	daily rain	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	8.4 mm (0.33 in)	86 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Toolleen (Ryan), AU	daily rain	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	8.1 mm (0.32 in)	66 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Muzaffarpur, IN	monthly rain	161.2 mm (6.3 in)	30.4 mm (1.2 in)	38 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1964	Khamaria, IN	daily rain	150.2 mm (5.9 in)	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	59 years	38 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

1809 to 1964

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1809 to 1964. 1964 had 416 records.

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

Records on 07-20 in each year
Year	Records
1809	1
1810	1
1811	2
1832	2
1844	2
1850	1
1859	2
1863	1
1865	4
1866	1
1867	1
1868	1
1870	1
1872	1
1874	2
1876	1
1877	2
1879	3
1880	1
1881	2
1882	1
1883	2
1885	1
1886	2
1887	1
1888	1
1889	2
1890	5
1892	7
1893	1
1894	1
1895	1
1897	4
1898	2
1899	4
1900	9
1901	3
1902	13
1903	6
1904	10
1905	6
1906	8
1907	12
1908	31
1909	6
1910	27
1911	12
1912	33
1913	28
1914	20
1915	163
1916	117
1917	57
1918	53
1919	40
1920	16
1921	55
1922	52
1923	173
1924	112
1925	125
1926	411
1927	106
1928	366
1929	480
1930	598
1931	362
1932	338
1933	201
1934	857
1935	386
1936	358
1937	213
1938	392
1939	336
1940	325
1941	270
1942	609
1943	326
1944	470
1945	278
1946	482
1947	635
1948	385
1949	807
1950	563
1951	448
1952	488
1953	316
1954	512
1955	377
1956	545
1957	351
1958	536
1959	605
1960	758
1961	338
1962	327
1963	457
1964	416
1965	1,110
1966	469
1967	455
1968	389
1969	649
1970	890
1971	619
1972	1,062
1973	804
1974	489
1975	470
1976	580
1977	899
1978	663
1979	1,249
1980	925
1981	1,048
1982	580
1983	1,117
1984	799
1985	604
1986	848
1987	1,156
1988	1,103
1989	1,183
1990	724
1991	1,024
1992	1,137
1993	901
1994	611
1995	961
1996	1,365
1997	903
1998	1,682
1999	815
2000	1,393
2001	755
2002	986
2003	1,313
2004	978
2005	1,266
2006	1,487
2007	1,124
2008	663
2009	1,533
2010	1,154
2011	1,339
2012	817
2013	850
2014	1,000
2015	812
2016	744
2017	398
2018	930
2019	867
2020	524
2021	683
2022	1,108
2023	812
2024	737
2025	680
2026	863

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Data for records on 1964-07-20: 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 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 10	257
10 to 20	34
20 to 30	16
30 to 40	8
40 to 50	4
50 to 60	4
60 to 70	4