The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Danville has
recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far
they sit beyond a normal day.
Based on 19 years of daily weather observations (2006–present), from the Vermilion County Airport station 9 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 Danville
has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year
looks like.
🔥Hottest day
102°FJul 6, 2012
The three most extreme on record
1102°FJul 6, 2012
2102°FJul 7, 2012
3102°FJul 17, 2013
❄️Coldest night
-17°FFeb 11, 2014
The three most extreme on record
1-17°FFeb 11, 2014
2-17°FJan 16, 2009
3-17°FJan 30, 2019
🌧️Most rain in one day
4.27 inJul 10, 2024
The three most extreme on record
14.27 inJul 10, 2024recent
23.84 inOct 5, 2013
33.54 inFeb 21, 2018
In plain terms
Across the record, Danville has reached as high as 102°F and as low as −17°F. A single day has delivered over 4 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 30 years of daily observations at Purdue University Airport, a weather station, about 66 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.