Weather Records on 24 July 1920

46 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 24 July 1920. Highest significance: Newark Liberty Intl AP, US.

Key Facts for 24 July 1920

On 24 July 1920, 46 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
10 were record highs and 5 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 0 monthly and 46 daily.
Newark Liberty Intl AP set a daily record precipitation of 130.6 mm (5.1 in) on 24 July 1920.
Across 158 earlier years (1799 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 479 records.

Record Map

46 stations

46 station records on 24 July 1920 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 24 July 1920: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Newark Liberty Intl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	130.6 mm (5.1 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Guelph Oac	Canada	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Groningen-1	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Skara 1	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	27 of 100 (Routine)
Boras	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	32.4 mm (1.3 in)	22 of 100 (Routine)
Oxford	United Kingdom	Record low maximum temperature	14.4 C (57.9 F)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Storrs	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	21 of 100 (Routine)
Wrixum/Fohr	Germany	Record daily precipitation	23.7 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Coranderrk Badger Weir	Australia	Record daily precipitation	12.4 mm (0.5 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Waren	Germany	Record daily precipitation	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Scheveningen	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Sfax El-Maou	Tunisia	Record high maximum temperature	40.0 C (104.0 F)	20 of 100 (Routine)
Tranebjerg	Denmark	Record daily precipitation	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Putbus	Germany	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	19 of 100 (Routine)
Woods Point	Australia	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Georgetown	Canada	Record daily precipitation	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Hoorn	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	15.3 mm (0.6 in)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Morgantown 1	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	17 of 100 (Routine)
Grenfell	Canada	Record daily precipitation	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	18.6 C (65.5 F)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Vinga	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	18.9 mm (0.7 in)	16 of 100 (Routine)
Wartook Post Office	Australia	Record daily precipitation	9.9 mm (0.39 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Koebenhavn: Landbohojskolen-1	Denmark	Record daily precipitation	27.4 mm (1.1 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Gospic	Croatia	Record daily precipitation	55.2 mm (2.2 in)	15 of 100 (Routine)
Falsterbo	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	18.6 mm (0.7 in)	14 of 100 (Routine)
World Trade Ctr	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	14 of 100 (Routine)
Darwin Post Office	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Chita	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	17.5 C (63.5 F)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Port Jervis	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.7 mm (1.8 in)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Ny City Cntrl Park	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	13 of 100 (Routine)
Barkerville	Canada	Record low maximum temperature	11.1 C (52.0 F)	12 of 100 (Routine)
Stoney Creek	Canada	Record daily precipitation	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	11 of 100 (Routine)
Nidingen A	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Middletown 4 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	10 of 100 (Routine)
Blackwarry	Australia	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Armagh	United Kingdom	Record low minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	9 of 100 (Routine)
Oudenbosch	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	8.3 mm (0.33 in)	8 of 100 (Routine)
Hambantota	Sri Lanka	Record high minimum temperature	25.7 C (78.3 F)	7 of 100 (Routine)
Winterswijk	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	8.7 mm (0.34 in)	7 of 100 (Routine)
Kirchdorf/Poel	Germany	Record daily precipitation	17.6 mm (0.7 in)	6 of 100 (Routine)
Cet Central England	United Kingdom	Record low maximum temperature	15.1 C (59.2 F)	5 of 100 (Routine)
Battleford	Canada	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	2 of 100 (Routine)
Crookston NW Exp STN	United States	Record low minimum temperature	6.7 C (44.1 F)	2 of 100 (Routine)
Algiers-Ville/Universite	Algeria	Record high maximum temperature	36.0 C (96.8 F)	1 of 100 (Routine)
Newport	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	1 of 100 (Routine)
Philadelphia City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	1 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

46 records

Records set or tied on 24 July 1920 by type: Highest daily maximum 2, Lowest daily maximum 3, Highest daily minimum 8, Lowest daily minimum 2, Heaviest daily rainfall 31.

Records on 24 July 1920 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	2
Lowest daily maximum	3
Highest daily minimum	8
Lowest daily minimum	2
Heaviest daily rainfall	31
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 24 July 1920 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 0, daily 46.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

41 broken records

Margins by which the 41 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 87.2. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

24 July 1920

Top 20 records on 24 July 1920 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
24 July 1920	Newark Liberty Intl AP, US	daily rain	130.6 mm (5.1 in)	87.2 mm (3.4 in)	68 years	67 of 100 (Major)
24 July 1920	Guelph Oac, CA	daily rain	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	10 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Groningen-1, NL	daily rain	25.4 mm (1.0 in)	2.9 mm (0.11 in)	61 years	30 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Skara 1, SE	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	25 years	27 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Boras, SE	daily rain	32.4 mm (1.3 in)	10.9 mm (0.4 in)	11 years	22 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Oxford, GB	daily low max	14.4 C (57.9 F)	0.8 C (1.4 F)	30 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Storrs, US	daily rain	51.8 mm (2.0 in)	26.4 mm (1.0 in)	9 years	21 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Wrixum/Fohr, DE	daily rain	23.7 mm (0.9 in)	9.2 mm (0.36 in)	30 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Coranderrk Badger Weir, AU	daily rain	12.4 mm (0.5 in)	4.5 mm (0.18 in)	37 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Waren, DE	daily rain	23.9 mm (0.9 in)	12.2 mm (0.5 in)	4 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Scheveningen, NL	daily rain	18.0 mm (0.7 in)	8.0 mm (0.31 in)	16 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Sfax El-Maou, TN	daily high max	40.0 C (104.0 F)	3.0 C (5.4 F)	24 years	20 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Tranebjerg, DK	daily rain	14.5 mm (0.6 in)	4.2 mm (0.17 in)	26 years	19 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Putbus, DE	daily rain	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	5.1 mm (0.20 in)	19 years	19 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Woods Point, AU	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	5.8 mm (0.23 in)	32 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Georgetown, CA	daily rain	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	7.1 mm (0.28 in)	25 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Hoorn, NL	daily rain	15.3 mm (0.6 in)	2.8 mm (0.11 in)	30 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Morgantown 1, US	daily high min	21.7 C (71.1 F)	0.6 C (1.1 F)	42 years	17 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Grenfell, CA	daily rain	10.2 mm (0.4 in)	3.3 mm (0.13 in)	34 years	16 of 100 (Routine)
24 July 1920	Aleksandrovsk-Sahalinskij, RU	daily high min	18.6 C (65.5 F)	2.4 C (4.3 F)	19 years	16 of 100 (Routine)

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

1799 to 1920

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1799 to 1920. 1920 had 46 records.

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

Records on 07-24 in each year
Year	Records
1799	1
1813	1
1817	1
1832	1
1836	1
1838	2
1843	2
1844	1
1846	1
1849	2
1859	1
1860	1
1862	1
1867	1
1868	3
1869	1
1870	1
1872	3
1874	1
1875	2
1880	3
1882	1
1883	2
1885	3
1889	2
1891	2
1893	2
1894	5
1895	2
1896	5
1897	4
1899	3
1900	7
1901	6
1902	5
1903	8
1904	19
1905	19
1906	18
1907	8
1908	11
1909	21
1910	36
1911	51
1912	84
1913	30
1914	22
1915	35
1916	32
1917	40
1918	70
1919	19
1920	46
1921	67
1922	186
1923	87
1924	193
1925	154
1926	186
1927	251
1928	237
1929	187
1930	195
1931	364
1932	249
1933	356
1934	994
1935	342
1936	498
1937	327
1938	545
1939	225
1940	568
1941	335
1942	331
1943	278
1944	315
1945	252
1946	407
1947	852
1948	385
1949	408
1950	384
1951	333
1952	534
1953	403
1954	447
1955	445
1956	379
1957	428
1958	372
1959	522
1960	466
1961	612
1962	996
1963	521
1964	517
1965	333
1966	401
1967	344
1968	430
1969	585
1970	553
1971	678
1972	528
1973	743
1974	670
1975	521
1976	521
1977	829
1978	673
1979	652
1980	487
1981	1,025
1982	689
1983	1,425
1984	789
1985	829
1986	1,227
1987	1,220
1988	1,130
1989	896
1990	944
1991	1,092
1992	1,271
1993	1,705
1994	1,153
1995	927
1996	1,145
1997	1,097
1998	990
1999	1,201
2000	1,236
2001	1,186
2002	796
2003	2,254
2004	1,604
2005	1,158
2006	1,694
2007	1,310
2008	1,363
2009	856
2010	1,859
2011	1,514
2012	827
2013	572
2014	922
2015	483
2016	637
2017	559
2018	953
2019	1,221
2020	432
2021	541
2022	681
2023	804
2024	986
2025	879
2026	924

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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 2026-10-15. Last revised 15 October 2026 (2026-10-15).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	38
20 to 40	2
40 to 60	0
60 to 80	0
80 to 100	1