Weather Records on 29 August 2021

567 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 29 August 2021. Highest significance: Artern, DE.

Key Facts for 29 August 2021

On 29 August 2021, 567 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
312 were record highs and 77 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 6 monthly and 561 daily.
Artern set a daily record precipitation of 37.1 mm (1.5 in) on 29 August 2021.
Across 161 earlier years (1807 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 450 records.

Record Map

567 stations

567 station records on 29 August 2021 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 29 August 2021: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Artern	Germany	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
Pipestone	United States	Record daily precipitation	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Lebanon	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.6 mm (2.8 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Joao Pessoa	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Greeley	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Castellon de la Plana	Spain	Record daily precipitation	51.0 mm (2.0 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Tracy	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	67 of 100 (Major)
Ericson 8 WNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	65 of 100 (Major)
Regensburg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
Brocken	Germany	Record daily precipitation	44.1 mm (1.7 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Weissenfels	Germany	Record daily precipitation	29.3 mm (1.2 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Stotten	Germany	Record daily precipitation	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Eichstatt-Landershofen	Germany	Record daily precipitation	35.2 mm (1.4 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Bernburg/Saale (Nord)	Germany	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Schierke	Germany	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Leova	Moldova	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Manzanillo	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	220.7 mm (8.7 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Querfurt-Muhle Lodersleben	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Wernigerode	Germany	Record daily precipitation	30.9 mm (1.2 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Saint Paul	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Beloit	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.9 mm (2.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Slidell AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	235.0 mm (9.3 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Harzgerode	Germany	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Toamasina	Madagascar	Record daily precipitation	91.9 mm (3.6 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Genoa 2 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	59.2 mm (2.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Castle Rock	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Burwell 2WSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	65.0 mm (2.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Rosiori de Vede	Romania	Record daily precipitation	47.9 mm (1.9 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Brimson 2S	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.0 mm (1.9 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Kaneohe Bay MCAS	United States	Record low maximum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Jewell	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Lake Wilson	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Montrose	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Erfurt-Bindersleben	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Cairns Post Office	Australia	Record high minimum temperature	21.5 C (70.7 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Stiege	Germany	Record daily precipitation	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Gila Bend 2SE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	30.6 C (87.1 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Cherokee	United States	Record daily precipitation	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
W Branch 3SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.8 mm (1.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kozhikode	India	Record daily precipitation	54.1 mm (2.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Elgin Water	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.9 C (75.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Crete 4ESE	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.9 mm (1.6 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Birx/Rhon	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.6 mm (1.3 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Varfu Omul	Romania	Record daily precipitation	88.4 mm (3.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Bajkit	Russia	Record low minimum temperature	-7.5 C (18.5 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Charlevoix	United States	Record high minimum temperature	20.6 C (69.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Waverly	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Canton	United States	Record daily precipitation	88.4 mm (3.5 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Briceni	Ukraine	Record daily precipitation	30.0 mm (1.2 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Ord #2	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.8 mm (2.6 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lamoni	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Bloomingdale	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Muskegon Co AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Krasnaja Poljana	Russia	Record high maximum temperature	35.2 C (95.4 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bartlett 1W	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Drewitz Bei Burg	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.2 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Luisenthal (Talsperre )	Germany	Record daily precipitation	41.5 mm (1.6 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Mt Carroll	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Clinton #1	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Fairfield	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

567 records

Records set or tied on 29 August 2021 by type: Highest daily maximum 74, Lowest daily maximum 23, Highest daily minimum 238, Lowest daily minimum 54, Heaviest daily rainfall 178.

Records on 29 August 2021 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	74
Lowest daily maximum	23
Highest daily minimum	238
Lowest daily minimum	54
Heaviest daily rainfall	178
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 29 August 2021 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 6, daily 561.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

400 broken records

Margins by which the 400 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 114.8. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

29 August 2021

Top 20 records on 29 August 2021 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
29 August 2021	Artern, DE	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	114 years	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
29 August 2021	Pipestone, US	daily rain	89.4 mm (3.5 in)	50.8 mm (2.0 in)	78 years	71 of 100 (Major)
29 August 2021	Lebanon, US	daily rain	71.6 mm (2.8 in)	44.2 mm (1.7 in)	111 years	69 of 100 (Major)
29 August 2021	Joao Pessoa, BR	daily rain	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	63 years	68 of 100 (Major)
29 August 2021	Greeley, US	daily rain	74.9 mm (2.9 in)	39.3 mm (1.5 in)	123 years	68 of 100 (Major)
29 August 2021	Castellon de la Plana, ES	daily rain	51.0 mm (2.0 in)	41.0 mm (1.6 in)	76 years	67 of 100 (Major)
29 August 2021	Tracy, US	daily rain	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	100 years	67 of 100 (Major)
29 August 2021	Ericson 8 WNW, US	daily rain	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	35.5 mm (1.4 in)	112 years	65 of 100 (Major)
29 August 2021	Regensburg, DE	daily rain	34.4 mm (1.4 in)	16.2 mm (0.6 in)	130 years	64 of 100 (Major)
29 August 2021	Brocken, DE	daily rain	44.1 mm (1.7 in)	17.8 mm (0.7 in)	116 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 2021	Weissenfels, DE	daily rain	29.3 mm (1.2 in)	19.4 mm (0.8 in)	75 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 2021	Stotten, DE	daily rain	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	25.3 mm (1.0 in)	64 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 2021	Eichstatt-Landershofen, DE	daily rain	35.2 mm (1.4 in)	17.2 mm (0.7 in)	72 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 2021	Bernburg/Saale (Nord), DE	daily rain	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	22.1 mm (0.9 in)	52 years	56 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 2021	Schierke, DE	daily rain	39.0 mm (1.5 in)	18.2 mm (0.7 in)	68 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 2021	Leova, MD	daily rain	47.2 mm (1.9 in)	40.8 mm (1.6 in)	30 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 2021	Manzanillo, MX	daily rain	220.7 mm (8.7 in)	114.8 mm (4.5 in)	40 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 2021	Querfurt-Muhle Lodersleben, DE	daily rain	33.3 mm (1.3 in)	20.7 mm (0.8 in)	52 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 2021	Wernigerode, DE	daily rain	30.9 mm (1.2 in)	23.1 mm (0.9 in)	32 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
29 August 2021	Saint Paul, US	daily rain	35.8 mm (1.4 in)	16.5 mm (0.6 in)	114 years	53 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

1807 to 2021

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1807 to 2021. 2021 had 567 records.

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

Records on 08-29 in each year
Year	Records
1807	4
1814	2
1827	1
1834	1
1835	1
1837	1
1839	1
1844	1
1845	1
1850	1
1851	4
1863	1
1864	1
1865	2
1866	1
1869	1
1870	1
1875	1
1877	4
1878	1
1880	1
1881	1
1884	1
1885	3
1886	3
1887	1
1889	1
1891	1
1893	3
1894	6
1895	2
1896	10
1897	4
1898	2
1899	1
1900	1
1901	6
1902	7
1903	21
1904	7
1905	21
1906	14
1907	5
1908	12
1909	25
1910	9
1911	44
1912	36
1913	21
1914	32
1915	36
1916	59
1917	41
1918	28
1919	34
1920	76
1921	102
1922	41
1923	66
1924	250
1925	222
1926	403
1927	214
1928	288
1929	139
1930	170
1931	181
1932	675
1933	435
1934	459
1935	632
1936	297
1937	430
1938	253
1939	332
1940	395
1941	384
1942	654
1943	334
1944	338
1945	390
1946	702
1947	419
1948	1,096
1949	470
1950	557
1951	917
1952	345
1953	1,189
1954	438
1955	365
1956	351
1957	392
1958	240
1959	496
1960	499
1961	501
1962	400
1963	672
1964	483
1965	1,095
1966	463
1967	511
1968	887
1969	691
1970	481
1971	514
1972	635
1973	679
1974	874
1975	517
1976	547
1977	770
1978	755
1979	581
1980	521
1981	869
1982	1,164
1983	883
1984	1,230
1985	551
1986	2,408
1987	659
1988	1,237
1989	728
1990	1,009
1991	806
1992	1,417
1993	1,306
1994	596
1995	1,090
1996	1,056
1997	957
1998	1,452
1999	756
2000	1,076
2001	743
2002	921
2003	964
2004	813
2005	993
2006	1,156
2007	959
2008	716
2009	1,110
2010	1,184
2011	1,252
2012	901
2013	739
2014	419
2015	798
2016	576
2017	1,162
2018	890
2019	789
2020	827
2021	567
2022	437
2023	677
2024	1,047
2025	664
2026	797

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Data for records on 2021-08-29: 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	358
20 to 40	30
40 to 60	8
60 to 80	3
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	1