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Luleå's weather extremes

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Luleå has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do. This station's daily record ended in 2023, so these are historical extremes from that period, not records updated to today.

Based on 50+ years of daily weather observations (1971–2023), from the Lulea-Bergnaset station 2 km away. Updated through August 2023 — 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 Luleå has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day
88°F Jul 27, 2019

That is about 19°F hotter than a normal July afternoon in Luleå (typical high near 69°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 88°F Jul 27, 2019
2 87°F Aug 1, 1980
3 87°F Jul 17, 2003
❄️ Coldest night
-146°F May 31, 2004

About 184°F colder than a normal May night in Luleå (typical low near 38°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 -146°F May 31, 2004
2 -146°F Aug 8, 2007
3 -146°F Jun 9, 2010
🌧️ Most rain in one day
3.02 in Aug 15, 1975

More rain in a single day than Luleå usually gets in the whole month of August (typical August total about 2.6 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 3.02 in Aug 15, 1975
2 2.11 in Aug 14, 1975
3 2.03 in Aug 20, 2003

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.

-170°-150°-130°-110°-90°-70°-50°-30°-10°10°30°50°70°90°110° all-time high 88°F JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
normal range of daily temperatureshottest ever recordedcoldest ever recorded

Luleå's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — July's 88°F is about 19°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, Luleå's warmest days reach the high 60s°F and its coldest nights drop to the low 10s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 88°F and as low as −146°F. A single day has delivered over 3 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 16 years of daily observations at Lulea-bergnaset, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →