How extreme does Atar's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Atar has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 34 years of daily weather observations (1991–present), from the Atar station 1 km away. Updated through August 2025 — 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 Atar has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

119°F Jul 30, 2011

That is about 11°F hotter than a normal July afternoon in Atar (typical high near 108°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 119°F Jul 30, 2011

2 118°F Jun 15, 2011

3 118°F Aug 3, 1991

❄️ Coldest night

45°F Jan 5, 1991

About 15°F colder than a normal January night in Atar (typical low near 60°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 45°F Jan 5, 1991

2 45°F Jan 13, 1995

3 45°F Dec 15, 2000

🌧️ Most rain in one day

5.59 in Dec 30, 2014

More rain in a single day than Atar usually gets in the whole month of December (typical December total about 1.2 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 5.59 in Dec 30, 2014

2 5.35 in Dec 8, 1998

3 4.25 in Jan 31, 1996

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.

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Atar's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — July's 119°F is about 11°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, Atar's warmest days reach the high 100s°F and its coldest nights drop to the low 60s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 119°F and as low as 45°F. A single day has delivered over 6 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 — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

How we build these numbers →

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