Weather Records on 18 July 2024

581 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 18 July 2024. Highest significance: Ganca, AZ.

Key Facts for 18 July 2024

On 18 July 2024, 581 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
382 were record highs and 53 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 11 were all-time records, 14 monthly and 556 daily.
Ganca set a daily record precipitation of 99.6 mm (3.9 in) on 18 July 2024.
Across 156 earlier years (1793 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 461 records.

Record Map

581 stations

581 station records on 18 July 2024 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 18 July 2024: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Ganca	Azerbaijan	Record daily precipitation	99.6 mm (3.9 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Clarksville	United States	Record daily precipitation	114.3 mm (4.5 in)	70 of 100 (Major)
Palmerville	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	0.5 C (32.9 F)	63 of 100 (Major)
Culman	Russia	Record daily precipitation	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Minusinsk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Sulphur Springs	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Tastyp	Russia	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Glommerstrask	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Hellinikon	Greece	Record high minimum temperature	31.0 C (87.8 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Elizabeth City Cgas	United States	Record daily precipitation	103.6 mm (4.1 in)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Greensburg	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Longzhou	China	Record daily precipitation	132.8 mm (5.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Pechora	Russia	Record daily precipitation	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Bowling Green	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Dalnerechensk	Russia	Record daily precipitation	71.9 mm (2.8 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Hardy	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Kim 10SSE	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Lake City 2 E	United States	Record low minimum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Zion Np	United States	Record high minimum temperature	27.2 C (81.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Ternej	Russia	Record daily precipitation	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Conway	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.0 mm (1.3 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Plant City	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.2 C (99.0 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
College STN Easterwood Fld	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Gardiner	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Skagway	United States	Record low maximum temperature	13.3 C (55.9 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Buzau	Romania	Record high minimum temperature	24.2 C (75.6 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Vallecito	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Odesa	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	26.5 C (79.7 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bonny Dam 2NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	53.3 mm (2.1 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Wappapello Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Carthage	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.7 mm (1.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Kalbarri	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Uzur	Russia	Record daily precipitation	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Bonners Ferry	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.8 C (64.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Canton L&D 20	United States	Record low minimum temperature	10.6 C (51.1 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Walkerton 2 NW	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Fajardo	Puerto Rico [United States]	Record high minimum temperature	27.8 C (82.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Quicksand	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.7 C (71.1 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Enid Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.4 mm (2.8 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Old Hickory WFO	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.2 mm (2.3 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Susendal	Norway	Record daily precipitation	27.0 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Kalispell Glacier AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Morgantown L&D	United States	Record daily precipitation	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Douglas (Bisbee) Intl AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.8 C (73.0 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Bindoon	Australia	Record daily precipitation	32.4 mm (1.3 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Washington Sp	United States	Record daily precipitation	78.7 mm (3.1 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Kosrae	Federated States of Micronesia	Record low maximum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Corfu	Greece	Record high minimum temperature	26.6 C (79.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Sulina	Romania	Record high maximum temperature	35.7 C (96.3 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Kherson	Ukraine	Record high minimum temperature	24.9 C (76.8 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Boise Air Terminal	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Perth Metro	Australia	Record daily precipitation	44.0 mm (1.7 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Bahrain (Int. Airpo	Bahrain	Record high minimum temperature	36.7 C (98.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Francis E Walter Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.1 mm (1.4 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Kowanyama Airport	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	4.9 C (40.8 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Kutchan	Japan	Record high maximum temperature	31.9 C (89.4 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Bistrita	Romania	Record high minimum temperature	19.7 C (67.5 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Ermakovskoe	Russia	Record daily precipitation	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Antalya	Turkey	Record high minimum temperature	27.0 C (80.6 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Colusa 2 SSW	United States	Record low minimum temperature	3.9 C (39.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

581 records

Records set or tied on 18 July 2024 by type: Highest daily maximum 108, Lowest daily maximum 24, Highest daily minimum 274, Lowest daily minimum 29, Heaviest daily rainfall 146.

Records on 18 July 2024 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	108
Lowest daily maximum	24
Highest daily minimum	274
Lowest daily minimum	29
Heaviest daily rainfall	146
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	0

Records on 18 July 2024 by timescale: all-time 11, monthly 14, daily 556.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

456 broken records

Margins by which the 456 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 91.3. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

18 July 2024

Top 20 records on 18 July 2024 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
18 July 2024	Ganca, AZ	daily rain	99.6 mm (3.9 in)	91.3 mm (3.6 in)	71 years	71 of 100 (Major)
18 July 2024	Clarksville, US	daily rain	114.3 mm (4.5 in)	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	105 years	70 of 100 (Major)
18 July 2024	Palmerville, AU	all-time low min	0.5 C (32.9 F)	1.2 C (2.2 F)	125 years	63 of 100 (Major)
18 July 2024	Culman, RU	daily rain	52.1 mm (2.1 in)	28.8 mm (1.1 in)	65 years	60 of 100 (Major)
18 July 2024	Minusinsk, RU	daily rain	37.1 mm (1.5 in)	14.1 mm (0.6 in)	104 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Sulphur Springs, US	daily rain	94.5 mm (3.7 in)	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	124 years	57 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Tastyp, RU	daily rain	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	18.2 mm (0.7 in)	87 years	54 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Glommerstrask, SE	daily rain	34.6 mm (1.4 in)	23.4 mm (0.9 in)	41 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Hellinikon, GR	all-time high min	31.0 C (87.8 F)	0.6 C (1.1 F)	66 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Elizabeth City Cgas, US	daily rain	103.6 mm (4.1 in)	56.9 mm (2.2 in)	20 years	49 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Greensburg, US	daily rain	49.5 mm (1.9 in)	10.6 mm (0.4 in)	110 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Longzhou, CN	daily rain	132.8 mm (5.2 in)	75.4 mm (3.0 in)	1 year	47 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Pechora, RU	daily rain	34.0 mm (1.3 in)	10.7 mm (0.4 in)	75 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Bowling Green, US	daily rain	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	74 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Dalnerechensk, RU	daily rain	71.9 mm (2.8 in)	36.9 mm (1.5 in)	16 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Hardy, US	daily rain	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	4.5 mm (0.18 in)	121 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Kim 10SSE, US	daily rain	36.8 mm (1.4 in)	30.7 mm (1.2 in)	36 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Lake City 2 E, US	daily low min	16.1 C (61.0 F)	2.8 C (5.0 F)	50 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Zion Np, US	daily high min	27.2 C (81.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	104 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
18 July 2024	Ternej, RU	daily rain	48.0 mm (1.9 in)	12.8 mm (0.5 in)	82 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

1793 to 2024

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 2024. 2024 had 581 records.

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

Records on 07-18 in each year
Year	Records
1793	2
1801	1
1845	1
1847	1
1851	1
1858	1
1862	1
1863	2
1865	1
1866	2
1871	2
1872	1
1874	1
1877	1
1878	4
1880	1
1881	2
1883	2
1886	2
1887	2
1888	1
1889	2
1890	4
1891	1
1892	2
1895	1
1896	2
1897	6
1898	2
1899	3
1900	8
1901	5
1902	3
1903	14
1904	7
1905	22
1906	13
1907	12
1908	39
1909	11
1910	33
1911	42
1912	28
1913	21
1914	47
1915	95
1916	235
1917	265
1918	58
1919	38
1920	59
1921	67
1922	138
1923	126
1924	306
1925	217
1926	191
1927	85
1928	108
1929	123
1930	462
1931	382
1932	343
1933	228
1934	502
1935	212
1936	665
1937	334
1938	306
1939	424
1940	352
1941	349
1942	661
1943	277
1944	333
1945	350
1946	334
1947	385
1948	289
1949	521
1950	632
1951	307
1952	597
1953	493
1954	501
1955	423
1956	466
1957	325
1958	475
1959	548
1960	669
1961	280
1962	516
1963	269
1964	523
1965	707
1966	545
1967	735
1968	998
1969	590
1970	530
1971	625
1972	701
1973	976
1974	729
1975	643
1976	1,047
1977	839
1978	881
1979	821
1980	747
1981	624
1982	749
1983	1,071
1984	1,000
1985	582
1986	908
1987	1,845
1988	1,001
1989	1,233
1990	1,053
1991	589
1992	1,135
1993	1,013
1994	720
1995	904
1996	1,157
1997	785
1998	1,169
1999	900
2000	1,214
2001	909
2002	840
2003	1,159
2004	985
2005	1,210
2006	1,285
2007	1,267
2008	593
2009	1,757
2010	878
2011	1,148
2012	1,070
2013	921
2014	1,348
2015	745
2016	609
2017	426
2018	699
2019	548
2020	361
2021	676
2022	1,071
2023	867
2024	581
2025	779
2026	806

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Data for records on 2024-07-18: 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	434
20 to 40	16
40 to 60	4
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	1