Zambia: Weather Records and Extremes

0 weather records set or tied in Zambia in 2024: 0 highs and 0 lows, with a calendar heatmap, ratio by decade and record map.

Key Facts for Zambia

Zambia has 19 stations in the data, on Africa.
0 weather records were set or tied in Zambia in 2024: 0 record highs and 0 record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
1984 holds the most standing records in Zambia: 1,205.

Record Highs and Lows in 2024

0 highs, 0 lows

Each square is a day of 2024. Warm squares had more record highs than record lows in Zambia, cold squares more lows.

Records per Year, by Type

1980 to 2024

Records set or tied in Zambia each year from 1980 to 2024, stacked by record type. 2024 had 0.

Weather records per year in Zambia, stacked by type
Year	Heaviest daily rainfall	Total
1980	60	60
1981	45	45
1982	56	56
1983	61	61
1984	46	46
1985	66	66
1986	106	106
1987	70	70
1988	107	107
1989	103	103
1990	99	99
1991	6	6
1992	2	2
1993	2	2
1994	6	6
1995	6	6
1996	1	1
1997	1	1
2003	1	1
2004	2	2
2009	2	2
2010	2	2
2013	1	1
2014	3	3
2015	1	1
2017	2	2
2018	1	1
2024	1	1

Warm to Cold Ratio by Decade

Record highs per record low by decade in Zambia: . A ratio above 1 means more record highs than record lows.

Which Years Hold the Most Standing Records

1984: 1,205

Records still standing in Zambia, by the year they were set. 1984 holds the most with 1,205.

Standing records in Zambia by the year they were set
Year set	Standing records
1950	839
1951	69
1952	35
1953	42
1954	37
1955	164
1956	298
1957	240
1958	225
1959	75
1960	77
1961	613
1962	161
1963	96
1964	86
1965	114
1966	141
1967	145
1968	130
1969	138
1970	113
1971	105
1972	125
1973	174
1974	269
1975	139
1976	271
1977	268
1978	350
1979	208
1980	225
1981	816
1982	624
1983	840
1984	1,205
1985	864
1986	574
1987	372
1988	759
1989	490
1990	769
1991	203
1992	110
1993	91
1994	443
1995	360
1996	119
1997	140
1998	9
1999	23
2000	9
2001	15
2002	33
2003	28
2004	17
2005	14
2006	8
2007	13
2008	36
2009	28
2010	35
2011	5
2012	13
2013	38
2014	48
2015	25
2016	6
2017	10
2018	5
2019	17
2020	4
2021	10
2022	39
2023	26
2024	36
2025	4

Record Map for 2024

0 stations

The 0 highest significance station records of 2024 in Zambia, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Top Records by Significance

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Zambia by Year

Stations

19 with pages

Stations in Zambia
Station	Region	Record from	Years	Thresholds
Chipata	n/a	1950	75 years	Threshold days
Choma	n/a	1950	41 years	Threshold days
Kasama	n/a	1950	76 years	Threshold days
Kasempa	n/a	1950	41 years	Threshold days
Livingstone	n/a	1950	76 years	Threshold days
Mwinilunga	n/a	1950	74 years	Threshold days
Ndola	n/a	1950	41 years	Threshold days
Sesheke	n/a	1950	41 years	Threshold days
Zambezi	n/a	1955	36 years	Threshold days
Lundazi	n/a	1956	35 years	Threshold days
Mongu	n/a	1956	70 years	Threshold days
Kafue Polder	n/a	1957	34 years	Threshold days
Serenje	n/a	1957	34 years	Threshold days
Kawambwa	n/a	1958	33 years	Threshold days
Kabompo	n/a	1961	30 years	Threshold days
Kaoma	n/a	1961	30 years	Threshold days
Mount Makulu	n/a	1961	30 years	Threshold days
Solwezi	n/a	1961	30 years	Threshold days
Kabwe/Milliken	n/a	1973	53 years	Threshold days

Download the Data

Data for Zambia records by year and type: CSV or JSON. Field meanings are on the data page.
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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 2026-10-12 (12 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).