Weather Records on 5 July 2021

639 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 5 July 2021. Highest significance: Cuddalore, IN.

Key Facts for 5 July 2021

On 5 July 2021, 639 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
463 were record highs and 57 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 9 were all-time records, 10 monthly and 620 daily.
Cuddalore set a daily record precipitation of 72.9 mm (2.9 in) on 5 July 2021.
Across 170 earlier years (1796 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 419 records.

Record Map

639 stations

639 station records on 5 July 2021 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 5 July 2021: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Cuddalore	India	Record daily precipitation	72.9 mm (2.9 in)	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
Kisinev	Moldova	Record daily precipitation	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	76 of 100 (Major)
Guba	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	72 of 100 (Major)
Salem	India	Record daily precipitation	98.0 mm (3.9 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Demjanskoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	65.0 mm (2.6 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Middleboro	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Eden	United States	Record daily precipitation	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Pathfinder Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Proston Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Nieuw Buinen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Vardoe	Norway	Record high maximum temperature	25.2 C (77.4 F)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Macarthur (Post Office)	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.6 mm (1.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Gallivare_A	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Kuressaare	Estonia	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Kristianstad	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Vilsandi	Estonia	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Karlsborg_Mo	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	28.1 mm (1.1 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Kalispell Glacier AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.3 C (64.9 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Miller	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Komrat	Moldova	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Tallinn	Estonia	Record high maximum temperature	29.0 C (84.2 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Visby_Flygplats	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	18.4 C (65.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Karlshamn	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	18.0 C (64.4 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Driggs	United States	Record high maximum temperature	35.0 C (95.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Payette	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Park Falls Dnr HQ	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Kuusamo Lentoasema-1	Finland	Record high maximum temperature	30.1 C (86.2 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Chardzhev	Turkmenistan	Record high maximum temperature	45.6 C (114.1 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Two Harbors	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Logan Utah St UNIV	United States	Record high maximum temperature	36.1 C (97.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Sodankyla AWS	Finland	Record high minimum temperature	16.0 C (60.8 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Pine Rvr Dam	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Sihccajavri	Norway	Record high minimum temperature	16.6 C (61.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Haverhill	United States	Record low maximum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Superior	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Mustasaari Valassaaret	Finland	Record high maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Utsjoki Nuorgam	Finland	Record high maximum temperature	32.5 C (90.5 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Norman Manley Intl	Jamaica	Record low minimum temperature	22.0 C (71.6 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Atbasar	Kazakhstan	Record high maximum temperature	37.3 C (99.1 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Kautokeino	Norway	Record high maximum temperature	29.4 C (84.9 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Haugan 1 W	United States	Record low minimum temperature	-1.1 C (30.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Tegucigalpa	Honduras	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Palmer Job Corps	United States	Record low maximum temperature	9.4 C (48.9 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Shimonoseki	Japan	Record high minimum temperature	26.8 C (80.2 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Malmberget	Sweden	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Conlen	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Ellensburg Bowers Fld	United States	Record high minimum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	Record high maximum temperature	42.6 C (108.7 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Pohnpei WSO	Federated States of Micronesia	Record high minimum temperature	27.0 C (80.6 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Norman Manley Intl	Jamaica	Record daily precipitation	92.2 mm (3.6 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Kaunas	Lithuania	Record high minimum temperature	18.0 C (64.4 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
W Glacier	United States	Record high minimum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Marianna Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.1 mm (2.0 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Boise Air Terminal	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bajramaly	Turkmenistan	Record high maximum temperature	44.9 C (112.8 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Leeming	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	29.5 mm (1.2 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Waterville Trtmt Plt	United States	Record low maximum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Wu Lu Mu Qi	China	Record high maximum temperature	38.7 C (101.7 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Nagasaki	Japan	Record high minimum temperature	27.1 C (80.8 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ushibuka	Japan	Record high minimum temperature	26.9 C (80.4 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

639 records

Records set or tied on 5 July 2021 by type: Highest daily maximum 222, Lowest daily maximum 32, Highest daily minimum 241, Lowest daily minimum 25, Heaviest daily rainfall 119.

Records on 5 July 2021 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	222
Lowest daily maximum	32
Highest daily minimum	241
Lowest daily minimum	25
Heaviest daily rainfall	119
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 5 July 2021 by timescale: all-time 9, monthly 10, daily 620.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

510 broken records

Margins by which the 510 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 89.2. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

5 July 2021

Top 20 records on 5 July 2021 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
5 July 2021	Cuddalore, IN	daily rain	72.9 mm (2.9 in)	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	100 years	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
5 July 2021	Kisinev, MD	daily rain	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	111 years	76 of 100 (Major)
5 July 2021	Guba, AZ	daily rain	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	89.2 mm (3.5 in)	80 years	72 of 100 (Major)
5 July 2021	Salem, IN	daily rain	98.0 mm (3.9 in)	70.2 mm (2.8 in)	60 years	68 of 100 (Major)
5 July 2021	Demjanskoe, RU	daily rain	65.0 mm (2.6 in)	23.3 mm (0.9 in)	70 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Middleboro, US	daily low max	17.8 C (64.0 F)	5.0 C (9.0 F)	120 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Eden, US	daily rain	37.3 mm (1.5 in)	27.1 mm (1.1 in)	96 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Pathfinder Dam, US	daily rain	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	37.4 mm (1.5 in)	8 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Proston Post Office, AU	daily rain	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	32 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Nieuw Buinen, NL	all-time rain	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	2.5 mm (0.10 in)	60 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Vardoe, NO	daily high max	25.2 C (77.4 F)	4.6 C (8.3 F)	90 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Macarthur (Post Office), AU	daily rain	32.6 mm (1.3 in)	8.7 mm (0.34 in)	78 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Gallivare_A, SE	daily high min	16.7 C (62.1 F)	2.2 C (4.0 F)	107 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Kuressaare, EE	daily high min	22.2 C (72.0 F)	5.1 C (9.2 F)	68 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Kristianstad, SE	daily high min	18.9 C (66.0 F)	1.4 C (2.5 F)	107 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Vilsandi, EE	daily high min	20.0 C (68.0 F)	1.0 C (1.8 F)	100 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Karlsborg_Mo, SE	daily rain	28.1 mm (1.1 in)	10.1 mm (0.4 in)	75 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Kalispell Glacier AP, US	daily high min	18.3 C (64.9 F)	1.6 C (2.9 F)	122 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Miller, US	daily rain	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	100 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 July 2021	Komrat, MD	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	26.7 mm (1.1 in)	38 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

1796 to 2021

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1796 to 2021. 2021 had 639 records.

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

Records on 07-05 in each year
Year	Records
1796	1
1806	1
1816	1
1819	2
1822	1
1828	2
1835	1
1839	1
1841	1
1842	1
1844	1
1845	1
1852	1
1856	1
1858	1
1859	1
1860	2
1864	1
1866	1
1867	1
1868	1
1870	1
1871	1
1874	1
1876	2
1877	1
1878	1
1879	2
1881	6
1882	2
1883	1
1887	1
1888	1
1889	3
1890	6
1891	2
1892	2
1893	4
1894	1
1895	2
1896	1
1897	2
1898	3
1899	4
1900	8
1901	8
1902	11
1903	6
1904	4
1905	9
1906	25
1907	12
1908	10
1909	22
1910	33
1911	46
1912	12
1913	23
1914	56
1915	75
1916	37
1917	32
1918	30
1919	40
1920	206
1921	75
1922	66
1923	67
1924	112
1925	108
1926	183
1927	206
1928	185
1929	224
1930	233
1931	395
1932	344
1933	335
1934	505
1935	242
1936	714
1937	340
1938	328
1939	398
1940	352
1941	309
1942	443
1943	418
1944	438
1945	244
1946	273
1947	815
1948	655
1949	444
1950	480
1951	635
1952	341
1953	532
1954	417
1955	437
1956	499
1957	491
1958	634
1959	318
1960	515
1961	604
1962	324
1963	642
1964	421
1965	298
1966	305
1967	923
1968	828
1969	822
1970	552
1971	431
1972	1,580
1973	766
1974	488
1975	806
1976	639
1977	740
1978	804
1979	919
1980	557
1981	914
1982	981
1983	841
1984	832
1985	695
1986	1,155
1987	665
1988	1,828
1989	930
1990	1,103
1991	936
1992	937
1993	1,383
1994	1,137
1995	1,243
1996	1,130
1997	962
1998	957
1999	1,838
2000	729
2001	1,153
2002	892
2003	646
2004	853
2005	797
2006	974
2007	1,206
2008	779
2009	946
2010	1,085
2011	696
2012	1,356
2013	768
2014	420
2015	1,303
2016	932
2017	619
2018	754
2019	742
2020	416
2021	639
2022	855
2023	688
2024	1,030
2025	632
2026	505

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Data for records on 2021-07-05: 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 20	497
20 to 40	8
40 to 60	2
60 to 80	2
80 to 100	1