All-time weather records — Bay City, TX

Record high
109.0°F
September 4, 2000
Record low
7.0°F
December 22, 1989
Wettest day
9.12 in
September 18, 2019

Climate change signal in Bay City

18.6%

of Bay City's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (68 of 366 records since 2015).

13.1%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (48 of 366 records since 2015).

If records were spread evenly across the station's history, you'd expect roughly 5% per decade. Decade-by-decade, here's where each record-breaking day was set:

Decade Heat records set # Cold records set #
1910s
33
24
1940s
18
36
1950s
94
35
1960s
37
56
1970s
18
58
1980s
19
43
1990s
38
30
2000s
26
22
2010s
43
43
2020s
40
19

Records are the all-time daily extremes that are still standing — each daily record can only be held by one year. The station's earliest hot record was set in 1912, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1909-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 86.0°F — Jan 3, 2005 10.9°F — Jan 31, 1949 6.24 in — Jan 29, 1989
February 90.0°F — Feb 10, 1962 10.0°F — Feb 16, 2021 3.86 in — Feb 3, 1992
March 91.0°F — Mar 30, 1974 21.9°F — Mar 2, 1980 4.45 in — Mar 21, 1979
April 93.9°F — Apr 23, 2015 34.0°F — Apr 9, 1973 6.31 in — Apr 4, 1991
May 98.1°F — May 1, 1953 39.0°F — May 4, 2013 7.18 in — May 7, 1982
June 106.0°F — Jun 30, 2013 44.1°F — Jun 18, 2019 8.34 in — Jun 5, 2019
July 107.1°F — Jul 17, 1998 57.9°F — Jul 25, 2019 5.54 in — Jul 11, 2012
August 107.1°F — Aug 28, 2023 57.9°F — Aug 13, 1967 7.23 in — Aug 30, 1953
September 109.0°F — Sep 4, 2000 44.1°F — Sep 12, 2018 9.12 in — Sep 18, 2019
October 97.0°F — Oct 8, 1956 28.9°F — Oct 30, 1993 6.75 in — Oct 13, 2004
November 97.0°F — Nov 7, 2024 24.1°F — Nov 18, 1959 6.23 in — Nov 4, 1965
December 88.0°F — Dec 5, 1912 7.0°F — Dec 22, 1989 6.20 in — Dec 16, 1995

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Bay City.