Weather Records on 20 July 1969

649 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 20 July 1969. Highest significance: Bungowannah Park, AU.

Key Facts for 20 July 1969

On 20 July 1969, 649 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
107 were record highs and 119 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 3 were all-time records, 27 monthly and 619 daily.
Bungowannah Park set a daily record precipitation of 48.8 mm (1.9 in) on 20 July 1969.
Across 161 earlier years (1809 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 458 records.

Record Map

649 stations

649 station records on 20 July 1969 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 20 July 1969: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Bungowannah Park	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Reriutaba	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	60.4 mm (2.4 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Tambe (Itambe)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	164.2 mm (6.5 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Hilland 2 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	144.0 mm (5.7 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Bundi	India	Record daily precipitation	278.5 mm (11.0 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Mulwala (Tarramia)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Prudente de Morais	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	85.3 mm (3.4 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Beechworth Composite	Australia	Record daily precipitation	56.1 mm (2.2 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Tallangatta Dcnr	Australia	Record daily precipitation	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Rutherglen Research	Australia	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Springhurst	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Cottonwood 2 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Caron	Canada	Record daily precipitation	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Amderma	Russia	Record daily precipitation	47.4 mm (1.9 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Monticello 2E	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Kergunyah South	Australia	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Santa Luzia	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Hume Reservoir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Boqueirao Pedras Brancas	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	53.2 mm (2.1 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Bungowannah (Roseleigh)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Dom Mauricio	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	60.6 mm (2.4 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Daniel de Queiroz (Muxiopo)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	39.2 mm (1.5 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Salva Vidas	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	55.3 mm (2.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Ibiapina	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Morada Nova	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Yarrawonga Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Boorhaman	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Milawa Brown Bros	Australia	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Byers 5 ENE	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Acude General Sampaio	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	39.8 mm (1.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Custodio	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	38.4 mm (1.5 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Lagarto	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	56.0 mm (2.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Chintapalli	India	Record daily precipitation	75.7 mm (3.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Whorouly	Australia	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Elbow	Canada	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Cambridge City 3 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	106.4 mm (4.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Tallangatta (Bullioh)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	67.8 mm (2.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Peechelba East	Australia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Barra de Santa Rosa	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	40.0 mm (1.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Sugartown	United States	Record daily precipitation	93.7 mm (3.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Olivedos (Sao Francisco)	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Inga	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	53.0 mm (2.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Lead	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Emery	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Corowa Airport	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Ubajara	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	39.8 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Sao Joao Do Jaguaribe	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	56.8 mm (2.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Sangod	India	Record daily precipitation	173.7 mm (6.8 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Meanook	Canada	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Wangaratta	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Acude Velame	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Carnaubas	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Mesa Verde Np	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
St Joseph 3 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.5 mm (2.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Rennie (Pine View)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Patu	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	33.9 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Paris Stp	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Hiram	United States	Record daily precipitation	97.0 mm (3.8 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Bourke Post Office	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	13.9 C (57.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Uplands (Gibbo River Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

649 records

Records set or tied on 20 July 1969 by type: Highest daily maximum 31, Lowest daily maximum 97, Highest daily minimum 76, Lowest daily minimum 22, Heaviest daily rainfall 423.

Records on 20 July 1969 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	31
Lowest daily maximum	97
Highest daily minimum	76
Lowest daily minimum	22
Heaviest daily rainfall	423
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 20 July 1969 by timescale: all-time 3, monthly 27, daily 619.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

544 broken records

Margins by which the 544 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 75.3. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

20 July 1969

Top 20 records on 20 July 1969 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
20 July 1969	Bungowannah Park, AU	daily rain	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	75 years	70 of 100 (Major)
20 July 1969	Reriutaba, BR	monthly rain	60.4 mm (2.4 in)	40.4 mm (1.6 in)	46 years	69 of 100 (Major)
20 July 1969	Tambe (Itambe), BR	monthly rain	164.2 mm (6.5 in)	67.7 mm (2.7 in)	41 years	68 of 100 (Major)
20 July 1969	Hilland 2 NW, US	monthly rain	144.0 mm (5.7 in)	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	32 years	65 of 100 (Major)
20 July 1969	Bundi, IN	monthly rain	278.5 mm (11.0 in)	75.3 mm (3.0 in)	63 years	64 of 100 (Major)
20 July 1969	Mulwala (Tarramia), AU	daily rain	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	52 years	62 of 100 (Major)
20 July 1969	Prudente de Morais, BR	monthly rain	85.3 mm (3.4 in)	42.3 mm (1.7 in)	25 years	62 of 100 (Major)
20 July 1969	Beechworth Composite, AU	daily rain	56.1 mm (2.2 in)	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	52 years	61 of 100 (Major)
20 July 1969	Tallangatta Dcnr, AU	daily rain	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	40 years	61 of 100 (Major)
20 July 1969	Rutherglen Research, AU	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	31.3 mm (1.2 in)	52 years	60 of 100 (Major)
20 July 1969	Springhurst, AU	daily rain	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	40 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1969	Cottonwood 2 E, US	daily rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	50 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1969	Caron, CA	all-time rain	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	7 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1969	Amderma, RU	monthly rain	47.4 mm (1.9 in)	20.4 mm (0.8 in)	18 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1969	Monticello 2E, US	daily rain	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	48 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1969	Kergunyah South, AU	daily rain	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	27.2 mm (1.1 in)	71 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1969	Santa Luzia, BR	daily rain	33.0 mm (1.3 in)	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	56 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1969	Hume Reservoir, AU	daily rain	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	40 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1969	Boqueirao Pedras Brancas, BR	daily rain	53.2 mm (2.1 in)	40.7 mm (1.6 in)	42 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
20 July 1969	Bungowannah (Roseleigh), AU	monthly rain	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	10.1 mm (0.4 in)	69 years	54 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 1969

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1809 to 1969. 1969 had 649 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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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	370
10 to 20	90
20 to 30	36
30 to 40	26
40 to 50	12
50 to 60	3
60 to 70	4
70 to 80	3