Weather Records on 5 October 2021

887 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 5 October 2021. Highest significance: Ganca, AZ.

Key Facts for 5 October 2021

On 5 October 2021, 887 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
577 were record highs and 43 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 32 monthly and 854 daily.
Ganca set a daily record precipitation of 99.3 mm (3.9 in) on 5 October 2021.
Across 161 earlier years (1795 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 456 records.

Record Map

887 stations

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

Weather records on 5 October 2021: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Ganca	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	72 of 100 (Major)
Yan An	China	Record daily precipitation	67.1 mm (2.6 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Sisian	Armenia	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Taiyuan	China	Record daily precipitation	67.1 mm (2.6 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
E Wareham	United States	Record daily precipitation	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Vancouver 4 NNE	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Muscle Shoals AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.0 mm (2.4 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Hiddensee-Vitte	Germany	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Yuanping	China	Record daily precipitation	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Hornell Almond Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	67.6 mm (2.7 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Ovezande	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	33.7 mm (1.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Middleboro	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Jiexiu	China	Record daily precipitation	89.7 mm (3.5 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Durham	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	26.8 mm (1.1 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Delft	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.2 mm (1.4 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Shijiazhuang	China	Record daily precipitation	89.7 mm (3.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Vomb	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	29.6 mm (1.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Panama City 5N	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Hyannis	United States	Record daily precipitation	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Medicine Lake 3 SE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	32.2 C (90.0 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Putbus	Germany	Record daily precipitation	31.2 mm (1.2 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Milford	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Crosby	United States	Record high maximum temperature	31.1 C (88.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Newton Rigg	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kalispell Glacier AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Aalsmeer	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	30.5 mm (1.2 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Penola Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.6 mm (1.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Wuhan	China	Record high maximum temperature	36.0 C (96.8 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Marre-Sale	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	5.5 C (41.9 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Utah Lake Lehi	United States	Record high minimum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Roelofarendsveen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	45.0 mm (1.8 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Zegveld	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
W Pt	United States	Record daily precipitation	141.2 mm (5.6 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Krabbendijke	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	27.6 mm (1.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Rize	Turkey	Record daily precipitation	130.8 mm (5.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Flatwillow 4 ENE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Warsaw 6 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Arkona	Germany	Record daily precipitation	31.7 mm (1.2 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Southbridge 3 SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Dunkirk 19NNE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Summit	United States	Record high maximum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Northville	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Cut Bank AP	United States	Record high maximum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Anderson FAA AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Lafayette 2W	United States	Record daily precipitation	160.0 mm (6.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Commerce 4 NNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Minatare Dam (Usbr)	United States	Record high maximum temperature	29.4 C (84.9 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Nanchang	China	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Toyama	Japan	Record high maximum temperature	31.6 C (88.9 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Sarapul	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-6.1 C (21.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Mesa Verde Np	United States	Record high minimum temperature	12.2 C (54.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Conshohocken	United States	Record daily precipitation	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Zhijiang	China	Record high maximum temperature	35.6 C (96.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Escalante	United States	Record high minimum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Pennington Gap	United States	Record high maximum temperature	33.3 C (91.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Coulee Dam 1 SW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Lingling	China	Record high maximum temperature	37.4 C (99.3 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Oshima	Japan	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Hirado	Japan	Record high maximum temperature	29.5 C (85.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Kapelle	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	31.0 mm (1.2 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

887 records

Records set or tied on 5 October 2021 by type: Highest daily maximum 317, Lowest daily maximum 14, Highest daily minimum 260, Lowest daily minimum 29, Heaviest daily rainfall 266, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 5 October 2021 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	317
Lowest daily maximum	14
Highest daily minimum	260
Lowest daily minimum	29
Heaviest daily rainfall	266
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 5 October 2021 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 32, daily 854.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

733 broken records

Margins by which the 733 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 91.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

5 October 2021

Top 20 records on 5 October 2021 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
5 October 2021	Ganca, AZ	daily rain	99.3 mm (3.9 in)	78.4 mm (3.1 in)	75 years	72 of 100 (Major)
5 October 2021	Yan An, CN	daily rain	67.1 mm (2.6 in)	33.1 mm (1.3 in)	66 years	66 of 100 (Major)
5 October 2021	Sisian, AM	daily rain	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	91.0 mm (3.6 in)	52 years	63 of 100 (Major)
5 October 2021	Taiyuan, CN	daily rain	67.1 mm (2.6 in)	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	52 years	62 of 100 (Major)
5 October 2021	E Wareham, US	daily rain	44.5 mm (1.8 in)	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	96 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Vancouver 4 NNE, US	daily rain	73.7 mm (2.9 in)	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	24 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Muscle Shoals AP, US	daily rain	62.0 mm (2.4 in)	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	60 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Hiddensee-Vitte, DE	daily rain	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	9.6 mm (0.38 in)	75 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Yuanping, CN	daily rain	36.3 mm (1.4 in)	17.5 mm (0.7 in)	52 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Hornell Almond Dam, US	daily rain	67.6 mm (2.7 in)	46.3 mm (1.8 in)	15 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Ovezande, NL	daily rain	33.7 mm (1.3 in)	15.0 mm (0.6 in)	64 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Middleboro, US	daily rain	39.4 mm (1.6 in)	16.3 mm (0.6 in)	122 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Jiexiu, CN	monthly rain	89.7 mm (3.5 in)	23.2 mm (0.9 in)	0 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Durham, GB	daily rain	26.8 mm (1.1 in)	4.2 mm (0.17 in)	140 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Delft, NL	daily rain	36.2 mm (1.4 in)	9.1 mm (0.36 in)	83 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Shijiazhuang, CN	daily rain	89.7 mm (3.5 in)	63.0 mm (2.5 in)	2 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Vomb, SE	daily rain	29.6 mm (1.2 in)	12.1 mm (0.5 in)	47 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Panama City 5N, US	daily rain	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	24 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Hyannis, US	daily rain	41.9 mm (1.6 in)	7.4 mm (0.29 in)	124 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 October 2021	Medicine Lake 3 SE, US	daily high max	32.2 C (90.0 F)	3.9 C (7.0 F)	100 years	45 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 2021

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1795 to 2021. 2021 had 887 records.

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

Records on 10-05 in each year
Year	Records
1795	1
1811	1
1843	1
1844	1
1848	1
1849	1
1852	1
1856	1
1857	1
1859	1
1864	7
1867	2
1869	1
1873	1
1874	1
1876	2
1877	1
1878	2
1879	1
1880	1
1881	6
1882	1
1883	1
1884	2
1885	2
1886	3
1888	1
1889	3
1890	3
1891	3
1892	2
1895	4
1896	2
1897	2
1898	4
1900	6
1901	10
1902	11
1903	10
1904	19
1905	11
1906	19
1907	13
1908	17
1909	30
1910	43
1911	10
1912	92
1913	25
1914	13
1915	25
1916	124
1917	314
1918	35
1919	42
1920	89
1921	33
1922	81
1923	87
1924	139
1925	140
1926	155
1927	79
1928	202
1929	242
1930	285
1931	284
1932	768
1933	257
1934	237
1935	910
1936	219
1937	491
1938	375
1939	269
1940	185
1941	1,072
1942	206
1943	404
1944	329
1945	234
1946	643
1947	746
1948	491
1949	562
1950	466
1951	541
1952	1,027
1953	261
1954	834
1955	771
1956	452
1957	520
1958	450
1959	629
1960	290
1961	493
1962	456
1963	605
1964	737
1965	1,160
1966	390
1967	290
1968	670
1969	603
1970	458
1971	377
1972	636
1973	335
1974	973
1975	566
1976	819
1977	382
1978	438
1979	920
1980	1,002
1981	642
1982	524
1983	1,037
1984	646
1985	781
1986	875
1987	1,081
1988	958
1989	465
1990	736
1991	1,005
1992	776
1993	1,024
1994	1,205
1995	1,705
1996	931
1997	814
1998	1,596
1999	1,276
2000	1,147
2001	771
2002	1,026
2003	636
2004	770
2005	2,003
2006	930
2007	1,609
2008	942
2009	1,756
2010	1,114
2011	1,383
2012	913
2013	1,106
2014	648
2015	644
2016	565
2017	560
2018	1,004
2019	672
2020	997
2021	887
2022	752
2023	780
2024	996
2025	716
2026	1,233

Download the Data

Data for records on 2021-10-05: 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	711
20 to 40	14
40 to 60	4
60 to 80	3
80 to 100	1