The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Piggs Peak has
recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far
they sit beyond a normal day.
Based on 18 years of daily weather observations (2007–present), from the Piggs Peak station. Updated through March 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 Piggs Peak
has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year
looks like.
🔥Hottest day
122°FApr 28, 2021
The three most extreme on record
1122°FApr 28, 2021recent
2116°FApr 29, 2021
3112°FApr 22, 2021
❄️Coldest night
-28°FSep 4, 2016
The three most extreme on record
1-28°FSep 4, 2016
2-24°FAug 31, 2016
3-21°FSep 2, 2016
🌧️Most rain in one day
6.28 inJan 17, 2012
The three most extreme on record
16.28 inJan 17, 2012
25.16 inAug 29, 2014
34.88 inFeb 17, 2017
In plain terms
Across the record, Piggs Peak has reached as high as 122°F and as low as −28°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 — 1991–2020 normals computed from 20 years of daily observations at Nelspruit, a weather station, about 61 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.