Weather Records on 29 July 1973

459 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 29 July 1973. Highest significance: Brazos, US.

Key Facts for 29 July 1973

On 29 July 1973, 459 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
115 were record highs and 138 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 3 were all-time records, 18 monthly and 438 daily.
Brazos set a daily record precipitation of 71.1 mm (2.8 in) on 29 July 1973.
Across 165 earlier years (1797 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 449 records.

Record Map

459 stations

459 station records on 29 July 1973 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 29 July 1973: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Brazos	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Walters	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Waxahachie	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Acude Sobral	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Denton 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.5 mm (3.2 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Fortaleza	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	76.8 mm (3.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Graca	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	58.8 mm (2.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Gainesville	United States	Record daily precipitation	96.3 mm (3.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Cleburne	United States	Record daily precipitation	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Claude	United States	Record daily precipitation	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Brinkworth (Anama Park)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Tupper Lake Sunmount	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Muenster	United States	Record daily precipitation	116.1 mm (4.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Pavlograd	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	31.4 mm (1.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Bowie	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kleiner Feldberg/Taunus	Germany	Record daily precipitation	37.7 mm (1.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Arzgir	Russia	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Simferopol	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Forestburg 5 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	170.9 mm (6.7 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Weatherford	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.3 mm (2.6 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Healdton 3 E	United States	Record low maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Archer City 2W	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Mullen 3S	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.5 mm (3.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Vaughn	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Jesus Maria (Smn)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Kropotkin	Russia	Record daily precipitation	40.2 mm (1.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Stillwater 2 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.1 mm (1.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Budennovsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Graham	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Seminole	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.5 mm (2.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Kazalinsk	Kazakhstan	Record high maximum temperature	42.1 C (107.8 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Arcola	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.3 mm (2.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Henrietta	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.3 mm (4.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Rainbow	United States	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Blagodarnyj	Russia	Record daily precipitation	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
De Hoek (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Antelope	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Pecos	United States	Record low maximum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Valentine 10 WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Standard	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Olney 5 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Astana	Kazakhstan	Record high minimum temperature	19.5 C (67.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Georgievsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Phoenixville 1 E	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Millaquin Sugar	Australia	Record daily precipitation	48.3 mm (1.9 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Waverly	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Virginia	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	66.8 mm (2.6 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Wichita Falls Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Taber	Canada	Record low minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Port Aux Basques	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Juchitan de Zaragoza	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	41.7 C (107.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Lamoni	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Dundee 6 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Wichita Falls Muni AP	United States	Record low maximum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Gyzylarbat	Turkmenistan	Record high maximum temperature	46.0 C (114.8 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Lake Avalon	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Apache	United States	Record low maximum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Hood Rvr Exp STN	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.2 C (99.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Blanding	United States	Record low minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

459 records

Records set or tied on 29 July 1973 by type: Highest daily maximum 49, Lowest daily maximum 90, Highest daily minimum 66, Lowest daily minimum 48, Heaviest daily rainfall 206.

Records on 29 July 1973 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	49
Lowest daily maximum	90
Highest daily minimum	66
Lowest daily minimum	48
Heaviest daily rainfall	206
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 29 July 1973 by timescale: all-time 3, monthly 18, daily 438.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

365 broken records

Margins by which the 365 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 78.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

29 July 1973

Top 20 records on 29 July 1973 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
29 July 1973	Brazos, US	daily rain	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	64 years	64 of 100 (Major)
29 July 1973	Walters, US	daily rain	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	78.0 mm (3.1 in)	48 years	60 of 100 (Major)
29 July 1973	Waxahachie, US	daily rain	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	72 years	60 of 100 (Major)
29 July 1973	Acude Sobral, BR	daily rain	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	50 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Denton 2 SE, US	daily rain	80.5 mm (3.2 in)	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	28 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Fortaleza, BR	daily rain	76.8 mm (3.0 in)	48.2 mm (1.9 in)	42 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Graca, BR	daily rain	58.8 mm (2.3 in)	49.7 mm (2.0 in)	28 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Gainesville, US	daily rain	96.3 mm (3.8 in)	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	70 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Cleburne, US	daily rain	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	34 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Claude, US	daily rain	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	56.3 mm (2.2 in)	8 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Brinkworth (Anama Park), AU	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	32 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Tupper Lake Sunmount, US	daily rain	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	24.7 mm (1.0 in)	42 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Muenster, US	monthly rain	116.1 mm (4.6 in)	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	13 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Pavlograd, UA	daily rain	31.4 mm (1.2 in)	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	18 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Bowie, US	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	62 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Kleiner Feldberg/Taunus, DE	daily rain	37.7 mm (1.5 in)	22.2 mm (0.9 in)	27 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Arzgir, RU	daily rain	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	21.6 mm (0.9 in)	32 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Simferopol, UA	daily rain	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	13.5 mm (0.5 in)	70 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Forestburg 5 S, US	all-time rain	170.9 mm (6.7 in)	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	32 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
29 July 1973	Weatherford, US	daily rain	65.3 mm (2.6 in)	33.5 mm (1.3 in)	44 years	41 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

1797 to 1973

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1797 to 1973. 1973 had 459 records.

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

Records on 07-29 in each year
Year	Records
1797	1
1807	1
1815	1
1824	1
1830	1
1834	1
1838	1
1843	1
1845	2
1848	1
1851	1
1853	1
1857	1
1858	3
1859	1
1860	3
1867	3
1868	2
1869	1
1872	2
1873	1
1875	1
1877	2
1881	1
1883	1
1884	2
1886	2
1887	2
1888	2
1889	1
1890	4
1891	2
1893	2
1894	4
1895	4
1896	1
1897	5
1898	7
1899	1
1900	5
1901	15
1902	3
1903	16
1904	14
1905	17
1906	13
1907	31
1908	28
1909	45
1910	22
1911	48
1912	35
1913	33
1914	130
1915	15
1916	186
1917	50
1918	28
1919	29
1920	94
1921	94
1922	83
1923	168
1924	90
1925	427
1926	154
1927	119
1928	297
1929	347
1930	343
1931	401
1932	217
1933	501
1934	957
1935	280
1936	348
1937	276
1938	345
1939	434
1940	539
1941	400
1942	201
1943	433
1944	263
1945	429
1946	384
1947	434
1948	510
1949	511
1950	744
1951	333
1952	712
1953	251
1954	445
1955	463
1956	408
1957	364
1958	620
1959	383
1960	611
1961	563
1962	410
1963	462
1964	510
1965	709
1966	417
1967	370
1968	744
1969	630
1970	465
1971	1,609
1972	665
1973	459
1974	463
1975	894
1976	506
1977	712
1978	551
1979	601
1980	864
1981	1,496
1982	699
1983	1,022
1984	1,173
1985	823
1986	842
1987	1,412
1988	744
1989	1,008
1990	745
1991	765
1992	620
1993	1,063
1994	1,695
1995	1,295
1996	1,085
1997	979
1998	1,251
1999	1,271
2000	898
2001	1,205
2002	1,294
2003	1,166
2004	1,167
2005	1,334
2006	1,085
2007	1,116
2008	852
2009	1,311
2010	1,691
2011	1,012
2012	656
2013	1,159
2014	1,061
2015	833
2016	580
2017	608
2018	653
2019	496
2020	480
2021	667
2022	1,058
2023	803
2024	694
2025	859
2026	979

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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	280
10 to 20	43
20 to 30	19
30 to 40	10
40 to 50	7
50 to 60	4
60 to 70	0
70 to 80	2