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Weather extremes
How extreme does La Plata's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days La Plata has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days La Plata has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 20°F hotter than a normal January afternoon in La Plata (typical high near 86°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 27°F colder than a normal July night in La Plata (typical low near 40°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than La Plata usually gets in the whole month of March (typical March total about 4.1 in).
The three most extreme on record
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.
La Plata's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — January's 106°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
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from the WMO's CLINO 1991–2020 collection, measured at La_plata_aero, about 7 km from the city centre.