How extreme does Cali's weather get?

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

Based on 50+ years of daily weather observations (1971–present), from the Cali/Alfonso Bonill station 20 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 Cali has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

100°F Mar 28, 1974

That is about 29°F hotter than a normal March afternoon in Cali (typical high near 71°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 100°F Mar 28, 1974

2 99°F Feb 2, 1973

3 98°F Mar 10, 1977

❄️ Coldest night

32°F Mar 30, 1977

About 23°F colder than a normal March night in Cali (typical low near 55°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 32°F Mar 30, 1977

2 32°F May 10, 1977

3 32°F May 15, 1977

🌧️ Most rain in one day

7.48 in Oct 31, 2012

More rain in a single day than Cali usually gets in the whole month of October (typical October total about 3.3 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 7.48 in Oct 31, 2012

2 7.24 in Nov 9, 2011

3 6.16 in Oct 10, 2016

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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Cali's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — March's 100°F is about 29°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, Cali's warmest days reach the high 80s°F and its coldest nights drop to the mid-50s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 100°F and as low as 32°F. A single day has delivered over 7 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 — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 12 years of daily observations at Cali/alfonso Bonill, a weather station, about 20 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →

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