Weather Records on 7 July 2003

664 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 7 July 2003. Highest significance: Poncitlan, MX.

Key Facts for 7 July 2003

On 7 July 2003, 664 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
330 were record highs and 160 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 2 were all-time records, 22 monthly and 640 daily.
Poncitlan set an all-time record daily precipitation of 199.9 mm (7.9 in) on 7 July 2003.
Across 165 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 431 records.

Record Map

664 stations

664 station records on 7 July 2003 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 7 July 2003: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Poncitlan	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	199.9 mm (7.9 in)	74 of 100 (Major)
Piqua	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.5 mm (3.1 in)	74 of 100 (Major)
Tecolotlan (Dge)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	71.9 mm (2.8 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Celina 3 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	100.8 mm (4.0 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Plavsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Maravatio	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Versailles	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Saltville 1N	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Junction 4SSW	United States	Record low minimum temperature	11.1 C (52.0 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Laghouat	Algeria	Record high minimum temperature	29.5 C (85.1 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Pleasant Hill	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Pineville	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Brjansk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	53.2 mm (2.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Scottsburg	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Enterprise	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Aibonito 1 S	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record low maximum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Eaton	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Nemours (Ghazaouet)	Algeria	Record high minimum temperature	23.8 C (74.8 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Ascencion (Smn)	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	8.9 C (48.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Zametchino	Russia	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Klamath	United States	Record low minimum temperature	2.8 C (37.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Hartford City 4 ESE	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Presa Colorines (Cfe)	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Elsinore	United States	Record low minimum temperature	7.2 C (45.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Ochoa	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Iaeger 1SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Atyrau	Kazakhstan	Record high maximum temperature	40.1 C (104.2 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Saltillo	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Isabela Substn	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Dzankoj	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	57.0 mm (2.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Muncie	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Jefferson 2 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Kilauea 1134	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Samaria	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Leoti	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Laghouat	Algeria	Record high maximum temperature	43.3 C (109.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Villa Purificacion (Dge)	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	15.0 C (59.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
La Lagunita	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Klamath	United States	Record low maximum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Marathon	United States	Record low maximum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Manuel Avila Camacho	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	37.2 C (99.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
La Sandia	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Buctzotz	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	40.0 C (104.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Yavorov	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Millersburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Urbana Wrf	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.3 mm (2.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Gold Beach Rs	United States	Record low minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Cleveland	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Mersa Matruh	Egypt	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Hostotipaquillo	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Cloquet	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.6 mm (2.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Willits 1 NE	United States	Record low maximum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Panther Junction	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Hobart (Ellerslie Road)	Australia	Record high maximum temperature	16.3 C (61.3 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Salamanca	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	57.4 mm (2.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
San Jose de Raices	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Pryshyb	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	68.0 mm (2.7 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
San Jose	United States	Record low maximum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Terra Alta #1	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Presa Plutarco Elias Calles	Mexico	Record low maximum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

664 records

Records set or tied on 7 July 2003 by type: Highest daily maximum 112, Lowest daily maximum 75, Highest daily minimum 218, Lowest daily minimum 85, Heaviest daily rainfall 174.

Records on 7 July 2003 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	112
Lowest daily maximum	75
Highest daily minimum	218
Lowest daily minimum	85
Heaviest daily rainfall	174
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 7 July 2003 by timescale: all-time 2, monthly 22, daily 640.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

460 broken records

Margins by which the 460 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 90.9. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

7 July 2003

Top 20 records on 7 July 2003 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
7 July 2003	Poncitlan, MX	all-time rain	199.9 mm (7.9 in)	90.9 mm (3.6 in)	29 years	74 of 100 (Major)
7 July 2003	Piqua, US	daily rain	78.5 mm (3.1 in)	51.6 mm (2.0 in)	82 years	74 of 100 (Major)
7 July 2003	Tecolotlan (Dge), MX	daily rain	71.9 mm (2.8 in)	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	53 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Celina 3 NE, US	daily rain	100.8 mm (4.0 in)	68.0 mm (2.7 in)	38 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Plavsk, RU	daily rain	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	32.2 mm (1.3 in)	38 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Maravatio, MX	daily rain	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	46 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Versailles, US	daily rain	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	24.2 mm (1.0 in)	85 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Saltville 1N, US	daily rain	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	46 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Junction 4SSW, US	monthly low min	11.1 C (52.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	83 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Laghouat, DZ	daily high min	29.5 C (85.1 F)	3.5 C (6.3 F)	92 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Pleasant Hill, US	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	33.2 mm (1.3 in)	44 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Pineville, US	daily rain	52.6 mm (2.1 in)	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	40 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Brjansk, RU	daily rain	53.2 mm (2.1 in)	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	53 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Scottsburg, US	daily high min	25.0 C (77.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	105 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Enterprise, US	daily rain	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	26 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Aibonito 1 S, PR	daily low max	22.2 C (72.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	82 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Eaton, US	daily rain	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	15.3 mm (0.6 in)	78 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Nemours (Ghazaouet), DZ	daily high min	23.8 C (74.8 F)	0.8 C (1.4 F)	98 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Ascencion (Smn), MX	daily low min	8.9 C (48.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	93 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
7 July 2003	Zametchino, RU	daily rain	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	6.6 mm (0.26 in)	80 years	42 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 2003

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 2003. 2003 had 664 records.

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

Records on 07-07 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1812	1
1813	1
1815	1
1819	3
1821	1
1825	1
1828	2
1835	1
1845	1
1850	1
1856	2
1857	1
1860	1
1863	1
1864	2
1865	2
1867	1
1870	1
1872	1
1873	2
1874	1
1875	1
1877	3
1878	2
1879	1
1883	1
1887	4
1889	2
1890	8
1891	3
1892	3
1893	2
1894	1
1895	4
1896	5
1897	2
1898	3
1899	2
1900	14
1901	5
1902	13
1903	10
1904	4
1905	11
1906	12
1907	6
1908	26
1909	22
1910	16
1911	67
1912	31
1913	17
1914	49
1915	72
1916	126
1917	120
1918	42
1919	37
1920	42
1921	65
1922	135
1923	166
1924	166
1925	198
1926	135
1927	184
1928	200
1929	122
1930	332
1931	442
1932	315
1933	337
1934	390
1935	311
1936	795
1937	280
1938	268
1939	359
1940	467
1941	334
1942	516
1943	309
1944	411
1945	299
1946	208
1947	532
1948	404
1949	374
1950	431
1951	416
1952	515
1953	623
1954	622
1955	485
1956	1,170
1957	394
1958	749
1959	391
1960	663
1961	318
1962	294
1963	510
1964	549
1965	388
1966	304
1967	430
1968	624
1969	967
1970	391
1971	467
1972	1,155
1973	1,120
1974	652
1975	571
1976	679
1977	828
1978	794
1979	924
1980	848
1981	1,025
1982	795
1983	1,013
1984	1,044
1985	939
1986	770
1987	728
1988	1,251
1989	1,040
1990	781
1991	1,040
1992	938
1993	1,762
1994	1,394
1995	576
1996	1,218
1997	752
1998	1,382
1999	971
2000	823
2001	983
2002	667
2003	664
2004	1,084
2005	949
2006	1,061
2007	1,067
2008	1,174
2009	930
2010	1,411
2011	749
2012	1,423
2013	548
2014	539
2015	1,263
2016	717
2017	904
2018	550
2019	506
2020	556
2021	930
2022	744
2023	576
2024	1,277
2025	562
2026	522

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Data for records on 2003-07-07: 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 2026-10-14 (14 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-12. Last revised 12 October 2026 (2026-10-12).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	424
20 to 40	32
40 to 60	2
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	1