Weather Records on 31 July 2024

748 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 31 July 2024. Highest significance: Oskaloosa, US.

Key Facts for 31 July 2024

On 31 July 2024, 748 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
581 were record highs and 76 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 4 were all-time records, 21 monthly and 723 daily.
Oskaloosa set a daily record precipitation of 75.4 mm (3.0 in) on 31 July 2024.
Across 155 earlier years (1804 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 469 records.

Record Map

748 stations

748 station records on 31 July 2024 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 31 July 2024: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Oskaloosa	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.4 mm (3.0 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Beaver Falls 1 NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Perry	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Granite Falls	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Lille-Lesquin	France	Record daily precipitation	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Shangzhi	China	Record daily precipitation	149.1 mm (5.9 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Ubachsberg	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	36.4 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Jamestown	United States	Record daily precipitation	109.7 mm (4.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Clarkesville	United States	Record daily precipitation	93.5 mm (3.7 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Brookhaven City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.6 C (78.1 F)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Lakeside	United States	Record high minimum temperature	28.9 C (84.0 F)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Freudenstadt	Germany	Record daily precipitation	45.4 mm (1.8 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Aberdeen	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Barcelona/Aeropuerto	Spain	Record high maximum temperature	34.3 C (93.7 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Middleboro	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Bonham 3NNE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Poitiers - Biard	France	Record high minimum temperature	22.9 C (73.2 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Monticello	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Independence	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.1 C (79.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Zyrjanka	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Chervjanka	Russia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Gravette	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
De Sabla	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Pella 1S	United States	Record daily precipitation	148.8 mm (5.9 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lakin	United States	Record high maximum temperature	43.9 C (111.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Schenley Lock 5	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Sunwu	China	Record daily precipitation	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Indianola 1SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	61.2 mm (2.4 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Busby	United States	Record low maximum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Catawba	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Hereford	United States	Record high maximum temperature	39.4 C (102.9 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Nozovka	Russia	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Brockton	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Artesia 6S	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Union City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Bay City Wtr Wks	United States	Record high minimum temperature	28.3 C (82.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Minneapolis-St Paul Intl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Bloomfield	United States	Record daily precipitation	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Acmetonia Lock 3	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Natrona Lock 4	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Little Mtn	United States	Record daily precipitation	84.8 mm (3.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Hohenpeissenberg	Germany	Record high maximum temperature	29.6 C (85.3 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Nacozari (Smn)	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	24.0 C (75.2 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Thief River Falls	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Pittsburgh Allegheny Co AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Sredhekolymsk	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	6.0 C (42.8 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Lugano	Switzerland	Record high minimum temperature	23.2 C (73.8 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Syracuse 1NE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	42.8 C (109.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Tucumcari 4 NE	United States	Record high maximum temperature	42.2 C (108.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Lockhart	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Van Horn	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Murotomisaki	Japan	Record high maximum temperature	32.5 C (90.5 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Carlsbad Caverns	United States	Record high maximum temperature	38.3 C (100.9 F)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Essendon Airport	Australia	Record low maximum temperature	10.5 C (50.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Chichi Jima Bonin Is	Japan	Record high minimum temperature	28.7 C (83.7 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Clearwater Dam	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Malin Head	Ireland	Record low minimum temperature	7.9 C (46.2 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Abbeville	France	Record high minimum temperature	19.6 C (67.3 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Orly	France	Record high minimum temperature	20.9 C (69.6 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Korkodon	Russia	Record low maximum temperature	9.7 C (49.5 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

748 records

Records set or tied on 31 July 2024 by type: Highest daily maximum 186, Lowest daily maximum 21, Highest daily minimum 395, Lowest daily minimum 55, Heaviest daily rainfall 91.

Records on 31 July 2024 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	186
Lowest daily maximum	21
Highest daily minimum	395
Lowest daily minimum	55
Heaviest daily rainfall	91
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 31 July 2024 by timescale: all-time 4, monthly 21, daily 723.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

536 broken records

Margins by which the 536 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 81.8. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

31 July 2024

Top 20 records on 31 July 2024 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
31 July 2024	Oskaloosa, US	daily rain	75.4 mm (3.0 in)	48.2 mm (1.9 in)	61 years	60 of 100 (Major)
31 July 2024	Beaver Falls 1 NE, US	daily rain	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	21.3 mm (0.8 in)	90 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Perry, US	daily rain	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	115 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Granite Falls, US	daily rain	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	127 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Lille-Lesquin, FR	daily rain	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	21.1 mm (0.8 in)	46 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Shangzhi, CN	daily rain	149.1 mm (5.9 in)	81.8 mm (3.2 in)	22 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Ubachsberg, NL	daily rain	36.4 mm (1.4 in)	20.8 mm (0.8 in)	65 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Jamestown, US	monthly rain	109.7 mm (4.3 in)	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	36 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Clarkesville, US	daily rain	93.5 mm (3.7 in)	70.9 mm (2.8 in)	27 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Brookhaven City, US	daily high min	25.6 C (78.1 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	119 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Lakeside, US	monthly high min	28.9 C (84.0 F)	1.7 C (3.1 F)	88 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Freudenstadt, DE	daily rain	45.4 mm (1.8 in)	19.3 mm (0.8 in)	65 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Aberdeen, US	daily rain	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	7.4 mm (0.29 in)	107 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Barcelona/Aeropuerto, ES	daily high max	34.3 C (93.7 F)	1.3 C (2.3 F)	97 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Middleboro, US	daily high min	22.2 C (72.0 F)	1.6 C (2.9 F)	121 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Bonham 3NNE, US	daily high min	27.8 C (82.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	115 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Poitiers - Biard, FR	monthly high min	22.9 C (73.2 F)	0.1 C (0.2 F)	77 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Monticello, US	daily rain	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	10.1 mm (0.4 in)	92 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Independence, US	daily high min	26.1 C (79.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	107 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
31 July 2024	Zyrjanka, RU	monthly low max	5.0 C (41.0 F)	0.3 C (0.5 F)	81 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

1804 to 2024

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1804 to 2024. 2024 had 748 records.

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

Records on 07-31 in each year
Year	Records
1804	1
1815	1
1816	1
1828	1
1834	1
1839	1
1840	1
1841	2
1851	1
1858	2
1860	4
1863	1
1866	1
1873	2
1876	1
1879	1
1884	1
1885	1
1886	1
1887	5
1889	2
1890	2
1891	1
1892	1
1893	3
1894	2
1896	2
1897	2
1898	5
1900	1
1901	3
1902	4
1903	16
1904	12
1905	10
1906	14
1907	17
1908	22
1909	15
1910	21
1911	29
1912	14
1913	31
1914	28
1915	71
1916	63
1917	126
1918	39
1919	27
1920	168
1921	112
1922	24
1923	236
1924	97
1925	349
1926	226
1927	161
1928	145
1929	134
1930	143
1931	441
1932	314
1933	504
1934	449
1935	418
1936	548
1937	297
1938	417
1939	357
1940	415
1941	323
1942	342
1943	342
1944	312
1945	499
1946	426
1947	341
1948	341
1949	406
1950	511
1951	364
1952	472
1953	414
1954	459
1955	813
1956	574
1957	268
1958	374
1959	424
1960	622
1961	504
1962	348
1963	294
1964	637
1965	858
1966	606
1967	326
1968	637
1969	440
1970	576
1971	1,850
1972	667
1973	583
1974	363
1975	1,386
1976	530
1977	543
1978	754
1979	501
1980	1,047
1981	672
1982	767
1983	901
1984	777
1985	1,065
1986	1,021
1987	934
1988	940
1989	1,753
1990	911
1991	647
1992	1,169
1993	1,031
1994	1,207
1995	1,223
1996	1,084
1997	984
1998	1,195
1999	1,643
2000	1,001
2001	1,414
2002	1,080
2003	1,157
2004	779
2005	742
2006	1,405
2007	1,023
2008	911
2009	1,156
2010	1,485
2011	1,040
2012	712
2013	469
2014	1,000
2015	948
2016	501
2017	485
2018	1,135
2019	551
2020	1,034
2021	1,020
2022	861
2023	671
2024	748
2025	836
2026	754

Download the Data

Data for records on 2024-07-31: 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	524
20 to 40	9
40 to 60	1
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	1