Weather Records on 11 August 2020

688 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 11 August 2020. Highest significance: Tian-Shan, KG.

Key Facts for 11 August 2020

On 11 August 2020, 688 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
501 were record highs and 37 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 7 were all-time records, 19 monthly and 662 daily.
Tian-Shan set a daily record precipitation of 99.3 mm (3.9 in) on 11 August 2020.
Across 161 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 459 records.

Record Map

688 stations

688 station records on 11 August 2020 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 11 August 2020: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Tian-Shan	Kyrgyzstan	Record daily precipitation	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	74 of 100 (Major)
A Coruna	Spain	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Zakatala	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Culemborg	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Lunteren	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	95.0 mm (3.7 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Madrid - Retiro	Spain	Record daily precipitation	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Navacerrada	Spain	Record daily precipitation	43.6 mm (1.7 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Ciudad Real	Spain	Record daily precipitation	27.5 mm (1.1 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Monroe Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Oudenbosch	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Obersulm-Willsbach	Germany	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Cordoba Aeropuerto	Spain	Record daily precipitation	57.6 mm (2.3 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Shelbyville Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Union Grove Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
A Coruna/Alvedro	Spain	Record daily precipitation	51.2 mm (2.0 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Eastbourne	United Kingdom	Record high maximum temperature	30.5 C (86.9 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Craibstone	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Racine Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Barneveld	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
De Bilt	Netherlands	Record high maximum temperature	34.5 C (94.1 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Miyako	Japan	Record high maximum temperature	36.6 C (97.9 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Veenendaal	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Oxford	United Kingdom	Record high maximum temperature	34.4 C (93.9 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Glen St Mary 1 W	United States	Record low minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Carnamah	Australia	Record daily precipitation	39.6 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kleve	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	36.3 C (97.3 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Geneva Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Multan Intl	Pakistan	Record daily precipitation	119.9 mm (4.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Beloit	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.8 mm (2.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Tucumcari 4 NE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	40.0 C (104.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Franklinville	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Hereford	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Burlington Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	87.6 mm (3.4 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Kleve	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	21.0 C (69.8 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Honavar	India	Record daily precipitation	144.0 mm (5.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Hamersveld	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	50.4 mm (2.0 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Sunwu	China	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Mansfield	United States	Record high maximum temperature	27.2 C (81.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Albany	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Troyes-Barberey	France	Record daily precipitation	35.2 mm (1.4 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Chihuahua	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	38.2 C (100.8 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Cuenca	Spain	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Cet Central England	United Kingdom	Record high maximum temperature	32.0 C (89.6 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Paradise	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Clermont 9 S	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Lichinga	Mozambique	Record high maximum temperature	26.6 C (79.9 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Newton Rigg	United Kingdom	Record high maximum temperature	29.7 C (85.5 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Rothamsted	United Kingdom	Record high maximum temperature	33.2 C (91.8 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Montabaur	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	33.0 C (91.4 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Dirksland	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.0 mm (1.4 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Cascade	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Olton	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Winfield Locks	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.7 C (98.1 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Rheinstetten	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	36.1 C (97.0 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Waghausel-Kirrlach	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	23.7 C (74.7 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Kawaguchiko	Japan	Record high minimum temperature	21.9 C (71.4 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Odessa 4SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Pattonsburg 2S	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.7 mm (1.8 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Darlington Wwtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Arnstein-Mudesheim	Germany	Record daily precipitation	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

688 records

Records set or tied on 11 August 2020 by type: Highest daily maximum 219, Lowest daily maximum 18, Highest daily minimum 282, Lowest daily minimum 19, Heaviest daily rainfall 150.

Records on 11 August 2020 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	219
Lowest daily maximum	18
Highest daily minimum	282
Lowest daily minimum	19
Heaviest daily rainfall	150
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 11 August 2020 by timescale: all-time 7, monthly 19, daily 662.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

585 broken records

Margins by which the 585 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 118.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

11 August 2020

Top 20 records on 11 August 2020 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
11 August 2020	Tian-Shan, KG	daily rain	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	80.4 mm (3.2 in)	85 years	74 of 100 (Major)
11 August 2020	A Coruna, ES	daily rain	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	53.9 mm (2.1 in)	64 years	68 of 100 (Major)
11 August 2020	Zakatala, AZ	daily rain	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	75.4 mm (3.0 in)	67 years	67 of 100 (Major)
11 August 2020	Culemborg, NL	daily rain	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	28.3 mm (1.1 in)	62 years	65 of 100 (Major)
11 August 2020	Lunteren, NL	all-time rain	95.0 mm (3.7 in)	11.0 mm (0.4 in)	67 years	64 of 100 (Major)
11 August 2020	Madrid - Retiro, ES	daily rain	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	18.4 mm (0.7 in)	73 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Navacerrada, ES	daily rain	43.6 mm (1.7 in)	27.6 mm (1.1 in)	71 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Ciudad Real, ES	monthly rain	27.5 mm (1.1 in)	12.3 mm (0.5 in)	41 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Monroe Wwtp, US	daily rain	80.0 mm (3.1 in)	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	71 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Oudenbosch, NL	daily rain	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	13.1 mm (0.5 in)	79 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Obersulm-Willsbach, DE	daily rain	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	20.5 mm (0.8 in)	60 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Cordoba Aeropuerto, ES	monthly rain	57.6 mm (2.3 in)	23.8 mm (0.9 in)	13 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Shelbyville Sewage Plt, US	daily rain	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	14.0 mm (0.6 in)	105 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Union Grove Wwtp, US	daily rain	82.0 mm (3.2 in)	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	26 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	A Coruna/Alvedro, ES	daily rain	51.2 mm (2.0 in)	42.9 mm (1.7 in)	16 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Eastbourne, GB	daily high max	30.5 C (86.9 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	109 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Craibstone, GB	daily rain	38.6 mm (1.5 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	16 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Racine Wwtp, US	daily rain	69.6 mm (2.7 in)	13.7 mm (0.5 in)	97 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	Barneveld, NL	daily rain	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	15.3 mm (0.6 in)	62 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
11 August 2020	De Bilt, NL	daily high max	34.5 C (94.1 F)	2.5 C (4.5 F)	109 years	47 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 2020

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 2020. 2020 had 688 records.

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

Records on 08-11 in each year
Year	Records
1793	1
1796	1
1811	1
1815	2
1838	1
1839	1
1841	1
1851	1
1855	1
1858	1
1861	2
1862	1
1863	1
1864	6
1865	1
1866	6
1869	4
1871	1
1875	1
1879	2
1881	1
1883	1
1885	1
1888	1
1889	4
1890	4
1891	1
1892	4
1893	1
1894	1
1895	2
1896	5
1897	3
1898	2
1899	3
1900	4
1901	4
1902	13
1903	12
1904	19
1905	9
1906	6
1907	8
1908	10
1909	41
1910	9
1911	24
1912	46
1913	43
1914	26
1915	27
1916	64
1917	217
1918	29
1919	18
1920	54
1921	201
1922	98
1923	80
1924	149
1925	219
1926	140
1927	190
1928	174
1929	354
1930	471
1931	453
1932	281
1933	416
1934	620
1935	499
1936	541
1937	356
1938	315
1939	389
1940	359
1941	807
1942	390
1943	345
1944	936
1945	401
1946	419
1947	709
1948	306
1949	471
1950	320
1951	296
1952	417
1953	283
1954	536
1955	319
1956	457
1957	305
1958	494
1959	337
1960	461
1961	429
1962	662
1963	493
1964	677
1965	793
1966	1,037
1967	1,071
1968	619
1969	533
1970	526
1971	711
1972	823
1973	451
1974	596
1975	753
1976	529
1977	845
1978	433
1979	797
1980	929
1981	645
1982	1,232
1983	1,095
1984	822
1985	804
1986	563
1987	885
1988	1,119
1989	983
1990	760
1991	822
1992	928
1993	840
1994	1,173
1995	1,324
1996	1,147
1997	1,512
1998	1,232
1999	1,152
2000	924
2001	811
2002	1,152
2003	1,601
2004	1,478
2005	1,031
2006	896
2007	1,428
2008	945
2009	836
2010	2,289
2011	1,106
2012	953
2013	470
2014	556
2015	696
2016	1,340
2017	619
2018	861
2019	758
2020	688
2021	834
2022	661
2023	757
2024	643
2025	722
2026	765

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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 20	559
20 to 40	19
40 to 60	4
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	1
100 to 120	1