All-time weather records — Big Timber, MT

Record high
109.9°F
July 21, 1931
Record low
-47.0°F
February 15, 1936
Wettest day
4.00 in
April 16, 2002

Climate change signal in Big Timber

5.7%

of Big Timber's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (21 of 366 records since 2015).

4.9%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (18 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 #
1890s
8
18
1900s
2
4
1910s
39
51
1920s
67
52
1930s
77
44
1940s
16
14
1950s
27
32
1960s
31
31
1970s
6
24
1980s
35
27
1990s
22
22
2000s
12
22
2010s
9
17
2020s
15
8

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 1895, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1894-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 78.1°F — Jan 8, 1922 -36.0°F — Jan 31, 1917 2.10 in — Jan 11, 1998
February 72.0°F — Feb 26, 1950 -47.0°F — Feb 15, 1936 1.22 in — Feb 28, 1953
March 80.1°F — Mar 20, 2026 -32.1°F — Mar 4, 2019 2.27 in — Mar 22, 2011
April 89.1°F — Apr 19, 1962 -9.9°F — Apr 5, 1936 4.00 in — Apr 16, 2002
May 97.0°F — May 27, 1934 10.0°F — May 2, 1954 4.00 in — May 19, 1938
June 106.0°F — Jun 22, 1919 26.1°F — Jun 14, 1968 3.20 in — Jun 25, 1969
July 109.9°F — Jul 21, 1931 30.0°F — Jul 14, 1930 3.11 in — Jul 6, 1994
August 107.1°F — Aug 14, 1929 28.0°F — Aug 25, 1910 2.10 in — Aug 27, 1933
September 100.0°F — Sep 4, 1950 12.0°F — Sep 24, 1926 1.83 in — Sep 24, 2025
October 88.0°F — Oct 1, 1992 -14.1°F — Oct 25, 1919 2.35 in — Oct 17, 1938
November 78.1°F — Nov 2, 1965 -29.0°F — Nov 13, 1959 2.50 in — Nov 3, 1922
December 80.1°F — Dec 30, 1897 -38.0°F — Dec 24, 1983 1.81 in — Dec 31, 1996

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Big Timber.