Weather Records on 25 January 2001

603 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 25 January 2001. Highest significance: El Obeid, SD.

Key Facts for 25 January 2001

On 25 January 2001, 603 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
195 were record highs and 126 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 5 were all-time records, 32 monthly and 566 daily.
El Obeid set a monthly record daily precipitation of 72.1 mm (2.8 in) on 25 January 2001.
Across 154 earlier years (1795 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 517 records.

Record Map

603 stations

603 station records on 25 January 2001 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 25 January 2001: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
El Obeid	Sudan	Record daily precipitation	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Alta 1 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Ft Hall 1 NNE	United States	Record daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Iizuka	Japan	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Ljubljana Bezigrad	Slovenia	Record daily precipitation	57.6 mm (2.3 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
El Fasher	Sudan	Record daily precipitation	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Abu Hamed	Sudan	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Naze	Japan	Record daily precipitation	98.8 mm (3.9 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Marree Comparison	Australia	Record daily precipitation	69.5 mm (2.7 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Shimizu	Japan	Record daily precipitation	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Delegate (Weewalla)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Zagreb-Gric	Croatia	Record daily precipitation	25.6 mm (1.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Manfred Downs Station	Australia	Record daily precipitation	51.0 mm (2.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Shimonoseki	Japan	Record daily precipitation	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Kooline	Australia	Record daily precipitation	71.0 mm (2.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Heyuan	China	Record daily precipitation	41.6 mm (1.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Saga	Japan	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Aburatsu	Japan	Record daily precipitation	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Fuzhou	China	Record daily precipitation	45.4 mm (1.8 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Alta 1 NNW	United States	Record daily snowfall	30.5 cm (12.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Xiamen	China	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ganzhou	China	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Vojsko	Slovenia	Record daily precipitation	110.7 mm (4.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Springer	United States	Record daily snowfall	10.2 cm (4.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Bombala (Therry Street)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	31.4 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Guangzhou	China	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Kocevje	Slovenia	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
McGill	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Hvar	Croatia	Record high minimum temperature	13.7 C (56.7 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bimbowrie	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Bendoc Park	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Izuhara	Japan	Record daily precipitation	38.9 mm (1.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Colonia Morelos	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Rijeka	Croatia	Record daily precipitation	119.7 mm (4.7 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Ephraim	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Thiokol Propulsion F S	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Miyazaki	Japan	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Iowa Hill	United States	Record daily snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Yongan	China	Record daily precipitation	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Wuzhou	China	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Gospic	Croatia	Record high maximum temperature	13.1 C (55.6 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Goorambat	Australia	Record daily precipitation	28.8 mm (1.1 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Nanping	China	Record daily precipitation	70.8 mm (2.8 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Okayama	Japan	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Mount Barker	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	15.9 C (60.6 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Banka Banka	Australia	Record daily precipitation	42.0 mm (1.7 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Record high maximum temperature	14.3 C (57.7 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Zagreb-Gric	Croatia	Record high maximum temperature	14.6 C (58.3 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Hiroshima	Japan	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Kredarica	Slovenia	Record daily precipitation	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Chiang Mai	Thailand	Record high maximum temperature	35.2 C (95.4 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Ocate 2 NW	United States	Record daily snowfall	7.6 cm (3.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Gospic	Croatia	Record high minimum temperature	8.2 C (46.8 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Cardenas	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Yugarenok	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	-29.3 C (-20.7 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Carlin Newmont Mine	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.4 mm (2.3 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Black Lake	United States	Record daily snowfall	17.8 cm (7.0 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Snowtown	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	24.7 C (76.5 F)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Jian	China	Record daily precipitation	34.1 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Iwakuni	Japan	Record daily precipitation	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

603 records

Records set or tied on 25 January 2001 by type: Highest daily maximum 83, Lowest daily maximum 46, Highest daily minimum 112, Lowest daily minimum 80, Heaviest daily rainfall 220, Heaviest daily snowfall 38, Deepest snow cover 24.

Records on 25 January 2001 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	83
Lowest daily maximum	46
Highest daily minimum	112
Lowest daily minimum	80
Heaviest daily rainfall	220
Heaviest daily snowfall	38
Deepest snow cover	24

Records on 25 January 2001 by timescale: all-time 5, monthly 32, daily 566.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

505 broken records

Margins by which the 505 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 153.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

25 January 2001

Top 20 records on 25 January 2001 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
25 January 2001	El Obeid, SD	monthly rain	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	72.1 mm (2.8 in)	43 years	66 of 100 (Major)
25 January 2001	Alta 1 NNW, US	monthly rain	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	19 years	64 of 100 (Major)
25 January 2001	Ft Hall 1 NNE, US	daily snowfall	19.1 cm (7.5 in)	11.5 cm (4.5 in)	78 years	63 of 100 (Major)
25 January 2001	Iizuka, JP	daily rain	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	46 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Ljubljana Bezigrad, SI	daily rain	57.6 mm (2.3 in)	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	50 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	El Fasher, SD	daily rain	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	44 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Abu Hamed, SD	daily rain	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	43 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Naze, JP	daily rain	98.8 mm (3.9 in)	60.7 mm (2.4 in)	35 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Marree Comparison, AU	daily rain	69.5 mm (2.7 in)	54.3 mm (2.1 in)	14 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Shimizu, JP	daily rain	77.0 mm (3.0 in)	58.5 mm (2.3 in)	46 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Delegate (Weewalla), AU	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	14.8 mm (0.6 in)	104 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Zagreb-Gric, HR	daily rain	25.6 mm (1.0 in)	9.6 mm (0.38 in)	86 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Manfred Downs Station, AU	daily rain	51.0 mm (2.0 in)	19.2 mm (0.8 in)	109 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Shimonoseki, JP	daily rain	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	32 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Kooline, AU	daily rain	71.0 mm (2.8 in)	35.4 mm (1.4 in)	40 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Heyuan, CN	daily rain	41.6 mm (1.6 in)	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	30 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Saga, JP	daily rain	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	22.4 mm (0.9 in)	46 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Aburatsu, JP	daily rain	66.0 mm (2.6 in)	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	46 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Fuzhou, CN	daily rain	45.4 mm (1.8 in)	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	1 year	44 of 100 (Notable)
25 January 2001	Alta 1 NNW, US	daily snowfall	30.5 cm (12.0 in)	15.3 cm (6.0 in)	14 years	43 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

1795 to 2001

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1795 to 2001. 2001 had 603 records.

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

Records on 01-25 in each year
Year	Records
1795	1
1800	2
1813	1
1823	3
1834	2
1845	1
1846	2
1849	2
1853	1
1855	1
1858	1
1867	1
1868	2
1871	3
1880	1
1881	6
1882	1
1883	1
1884	3
1887	2
1890	8
1891	2
1893	2
1895	2
1896	3
1897	4
1898	4
1899	1
1900	4
1901	6
1902	3
1903	12
1904	17
1905	19
1906	7
1907	19
1908	7
1909	43
1910	21
1911	16
1912	20
1913	28
1914	60
1915	65
1916	89
1917	42
1918	53
1919	36
1920	61
1921	34
1922	75
1923	218
1924	118
1925	54
1926	80
1927	88
1928	179
1929	323
1930	317
1931	521
1932	219
1933	513
1934	457
1935	631
1936	429
1937	1,110
1938	665
1939	189
1940	1,215
1941	1,246
1942	683
1943	640
1944	1,344
1945	296
1946	320
1947	796
1948	708
1949	1,337
1950	2,290
1951	557
1952	569
1953	548
1954	373
1955	404
1956	311
1957	493
1958	457
1959	399
1960	263
1961	673
1962	492
1963	990
1964	533
1965	246
1966	541
1967	836
1968	592
1969	953
1970	510
1971	679
1972	737
1973	621
1974	685
1975	888
1976	713
1977	773
1978	1,209
1979	1,356
1980	704
1981	1,042
1982	975
1983	627
1984	758
1985	811
1986	406
1987	833
1988	926
1989	895
1990	1,476
1991	1,018
1992	1,077
1993	851
1994	911
1995	845
1996	1,292
1997	913
1998	488
1999	1,457
2000	1,332
2001	603
2002	1,074
2003	1,242
2004	1,174
2005	929
2006	1,112
2007	1,135
2008	823
2009	849
2010	1,222
2011	664
2012	864
2013	839
2014	1,094
2015	685
2016	974
2017	1,008
2018	613
2019	469
2020	459
2021	1,094
2022	281
2023	941
2024	931
2025	958
2026	2,391

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Data for records on 2001-01-25: 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 2026-10-15 (15 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	444
20 to 40	32
40 to 60	14
60 to 80	6
80 to 100	2
100 to 120	3
120 to 140	2
140 to 160	2