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Zahlé's weather extremes

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Zahlé has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do. This station's daily record ended in 2023, so these are historical extremes from that period, not records updated to today.

Based on 29 years of daily weather observations (1994–2023), from the Houche-Al-Oumara station 6 km away. Updated through August 2023 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Zahlé has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day
114°F Jul 27, 2020

That is about 20°F hotter than a normal July afternoon in Zahlé (typical high near 94°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 114°F Jul 27, 2020
2 112°F Sep 3, 2020
3 111°F Jul 28, 2020
❄️ Coldest night
12°F Jan 10, 2015

About 24°F colder than a normal January night in Zahlé (typical low near 36°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 12°F Jan 10, 2015
2 18°F Jan 13, 2015
3 20°F Jan 14, 2002
🌧️ Most rain in one day
5.35 in Sep 8, 1995

More rain in a single day than Zahlé usually gets in the whole month of September (typical September total about 0.2 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 5.35 in Sep 8, 1995
2 3.07 in Jan 7, 2013
3 2.84 in Dec 20, 2002

How hot and cold it gets, month by month

The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.

-10°10°30°50°70°90°110°130° all-time high 114°F JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
normal range of daily temperatureshottest ever recordedcoldest ever recorded

Zahlé's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — July's 114°F is about 20°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.

In plain terms

In a normal year, Zahlé's warmest days reach the mid-90s°F and its coldest nights drop to the mid-30s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 114°F and as low as 12°F. A single day has delivered over 5 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 20 years of daily observations at Houche-al-oumara, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →