Weather Records on 27 December 1994

1,122 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 27 December 1994. Highest significance: Port Alfred, ZA.

Key Facts for 27 December 1994

On 27 December 1994, 1,122 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
503 were record highs and 95 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 3 were all-time records, 17 monthly and 1,102 daily.
Port Alfred set a daily record precipitation of 126.5 mm (5.0 in) on 27 December 1994.
Across 150 earlier years (1793 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 535 records.

Record Map

1,122 stations

1,122 station records on 27 December 1994 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 27 December 1994: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Port Alfred	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	126.5 mm (5.0 in)	76 of 100 (Major)
Oudenbosch	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	72 of 100 (Major)
Tenango de Doria	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	140.0 mm (5.5 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
De Bilt	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Alexandria (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Alexandria (Pol)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Grahamstown	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	73.0 mm (2.9 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Arnhem	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	44.9 mm (1.8 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Schierke	Germany	Record daily precipitation	42.1 mm (1.7 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Putten (Gld)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	28.3 mm (1.1 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Ludenscheid (Zeppelin-Gymnasiu	Germany	Record daily precipitation	63.6 mm (2.5 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Kerkwerve	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Essen-Bredeney	Germany	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Gendringen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	33.2 mm (1.3 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Cengcane (Bos)	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	88.0 mm (3.5 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Vaals	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Newport	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Schulenberg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	49.4 mm (1.9 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Doetinchem	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Eelde	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	31.9 mm (1.3 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Llano	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Tiel	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	35.2 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Nuland	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Aalten	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.5 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Herwen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	39.2 mm (1.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Megen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.4 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Mill	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.5 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Oss	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	37.8 mm (1.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Vergelegen	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Intricate Bay	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Nijmegen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	30.9 mm (1.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Krabbendijke	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Ammerzoden	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	30.1 mm (1.2 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Boesmansrivier	South Africa	Record daily precipitation	113.0 mm (4.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Culemborg	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	31.1 mm (1.2 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Twenthe-1	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Tholen-1	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Amerongen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.7 mm (1.4 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Bergen Op Zoom	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	35.3 mm (1.4 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Steenbergen (Nb)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	40.7 mm (1.6 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Manderscheid-Sonnenhof	Germany	Record daily precipitation	38.3 mm (1.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Weiskirchen/Saar	Germany	Record daily precipitation	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Woudenberg	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Loenen Aan de Vecht	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Zundert	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.2 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Esbeek	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	35.9 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Dinther	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.4 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Benschop	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	35.0 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Capelle (Nb)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	30.4 mm (1.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Duiven	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	39.2 mm (1.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Geldermalsen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	37.4 mm (1.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Ginneken	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.2 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Hamersveld	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.5 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Strijen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Tilburg	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	32.6 mm (1.3 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Veenendaal	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	41.4 mm (1.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Wageningen (Pd)	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	38.2 mm (1.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Wijk Bij Duurstede	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.6 mm (1.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Zetten	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	37.0 mm (1.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Zwolle	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	28.5 mm (1.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

1,122 records

Records set or tied on 27 December 1994 by type: Highest daily maximum 325, Lowest daily maximum 61, Highest daily minimum 178, Lowest daily minimum 34, Heaviest daily rainfall 507, Heaviest daily snowfall 5, Deepest snow cover 12.

Records on 27 December 1994 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	325
Lowest daily maximum	61
Highest daily minimum	178
Lowest daily minimum	34
Heaviest daily rainfall	507
Heaviest daily snowfall	5
Deepest snow cover	12

Records on 27 December 1994 by timescale: all-time 3, monthly 17, daily 1,102.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

950 broken records

Margins by which the 950 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 208.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

27 December 1994

Top 20 records on 27 December 1994 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
27 December 1994	Port Alfred, ZA	daily rain	126.5 mm (5.0 in)	114.1 mm (4.5 in)	87 years	76 of 100 (Major)
27 December 1994	Oudenbosch, NL	daily rain	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	76 years	72 of 100 (Major)
27 December 1994	Tenango de Doria, MX	monthly rain	140.0 mm (5.5 in)	85.1 mm (3.4 in)	47 years	69 of 100 (Major)
27 December 1994	De Bilt, NL	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	19.9 mm (0.8 in)	69 years	69 of 100 (Major)
27 December 1994	Alexandria (Bos), ZA	daily rain	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	68 years	67 of 100 (Major)
27 December 1994	Alexandria (Pol), ZA	daily rain	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	43.5 mm (1.7 in)	87 years	66 of 100 (Major)
27 December 1994	Grahamstown, ZA	daily rain	73.0 mm (2.9 in)	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	68 years	64 of 100 (Major)
27 December 1994	Arnhem, NL	daily rain	44.9 mm (1.8 in)	27.5 mm (1.1 in)	47 years	62 of 100 (Major)
27 December 1994	Schierke, DE	daily rain	42.1 mm (1.7 in)	22.0 mm (0.9 in)	92 years	61 of 100 (Major)
27 December 1994	Putten (Gld), NL	daily rain	28.3 mm (1.1 in)	10.1 mm (0.4 in)	113 years	60 of 100 (Major)
27 December 1994	Ludenscheid (Zeppelin-Gymnasiu, DE	daily rain	63.6 mm (2.5 in)	32.6 mm (1.3 in)	47 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
27 December 1994	Kerkwerve, NL	daily rain	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	12.4 mm (0.5 in)	69 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
27 December 1994	Essen-Bredeney, DE	daily rain	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	35 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
27 December 1994	Gendringen, NL	daily rain	33.2 mm (1.3 in)	23.7 mm (0.9 in)	43 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
27 December 1994	Cengcane (Bos), ZA	daily rain	88.0 mm (3.5 in)	57.0 mm (2.2 in)	32 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
27 December 1994	Vaals, NL	daily rain	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	26.5 mm (1.0 in)	39 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
27 December 1994	Newport, US	daily rain	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	56 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
27 December 1994	Schulenberg, DE	daily rain	49.4 mm (1.9 in)	32.4 mm (1.3 in)	40 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
27 December 1994	Doetinchem, NL	daily rain	38.0 mm (1.5 in)	29.1 mm (1.1 in)	36 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
27 December 1994	Eelde, NL	daily rain	31.9 mm (1.3 in)	23.6 mm (0.9 in)	36 years	53 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

1793 to 1994

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1994. 1994 had 1,122 records.

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

Records on 12-27 in each year
Year	Records
1793	2
1798	2
1810	1
1839	2
1845	1
1849	1
1860	2
1862	1
1868	1
1869	1
1872	3
1875	1
1876	2
1881	1
1882	2
1886	1
1889	3
1890	1
1891	2
1892	4
1894	6
1896	5
1897	6
1898	5
1899	3
1900	4
1901	4
1902	6
1903	12
1904	21
1905	9
1906	8
1907	38
1908	3
1909	25
1910	13
1911	12
1912	51
1913	24
1914	44
1915	42
1916	43
1917	67
1918	42
1919	188
1920	148
1921	336
1922	37
1923	292
1924	340
1925	509
1926	208
1927	175
1928	282
1929	394
1930	142
1931	314
1932	219
1933	474
1934	199
1935	706
1936	972
1937	241
1938	396
1939	429
1940	526
1941	204
1942	880
1943	246
1944	274
1945	406
1946	878
1947	356
1948	445
1949	730
1950	481
1951	266
1952	118
1953	241
1954	511
1955	533
1956	628
1957	316
1958	425
1959	1,114
1960	385
1961	217
1962	490
1963	243
1964	897
1965	473
1966	715
1967	817
1968	993
1969	778
1970	352
1971	1,207
1972	401
1973	819
1974	782
1975	622
1976	613
1977	815
1978	775
1979	578
1980	1,778
1981	832
1982	1,449
1983	2,382
1984	814
1985	821
1986	484
1987	2,166
1988	1,855
1989	925
1990	880
1991	477
1992	500
1993	1,329
1994	1,122
1995	1,317
1996	1,758
1997	850
1998	924
1999	867
2000	1,392
2001	642
2002	944
2003	1,242
2004	853
2005	913
2006	965
2007	838
2008	1,708
2009	1,005
2010	1,851
2011	1,094
2012	1,118
2013	506
2014	482
2015	2,877
2016	884
2017	1,415
2018	1,039
2019	558
2020	402
2021	1,532
2022	1,025
2023	750
2024	680
2025	1,100

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Data for records on 1994-12-27: 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 50	933
50 to 100	10
100 to 150	2
150 to 200	3
200 to 250	2