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Weather extremes
How extreme does Chiayi City's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Chiayi City 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 Chiayi City has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 11°F hotter than a normal August afternoon in Chiayi City (typical high near 89°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 16°F colder than a normal January night in Chiayi City (typical low near 58°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Chiayi City usually gets in the whole month of August (typical August total about 14.0 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.
Chiayi City's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — August's 100°F is about 11°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 — 1991–2020 normals computed from 29 years of daily observations at Tainan, a weather station, about 58 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.