All-time weather records — El Dorado, KS

Record high
117.0°F
July 18, 1936
Record low
-27.9°F
February 13, 1905
Wettest day
9.05 in
August 25, 2005

Climate change signal in El Dorado

12%

of El Dorado's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (44 of 366 records since 2015).

3.8%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (14 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
16
25
1900s
15
38
1910s
20
41
1920s
16
35
1930s
108
41
1940s
24
32
1950s
48
26
1960s
12
28
1970s
13
33
1980s
18
31
1990s
7
7
2000s
15
6
2010s
19
15
2020s
35
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 1893, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1893-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 78.1°F — Jan 24, 1981 -23.1°F — Jan 4, 1947 1.67 in — Jan 19, 1907
February 84.0°F — Feb 22, 1996 -27.9°F — Feb 13, 1905 2.22 in — Feb 19, 1997
March 97.0°F — Mar 22, 2026 -9.9°F — Mar 7, 1943 3.61 in — Mar 31, 2007
April 99.0°F — Apr 7, 1893 12.0°F — Apr 3, 1936 4.14 in — Apr 17, 1940
May 100.9°F — May 29, 1913 25.0°F — May 1, 1909 4.47 in — May 21, 2019
June 108.0°F — Jun 16, 1953 43.0°F — Jun 1, 1983 5.50 in — Jun 8, 1979
July 117.0°F — Jul 18, 1936 44.1°F — Jul 3, 1924 8.20 in — Jul 2, 1905
August 116.1°F — Aug 12, 1936 42.1°F — Aug 24, 1896 9.05 in — Aug 25, 2005
September 111.9°F — Sep 3, 1947 28.0°F — Sep 30, 1984 5.75 in — Sep 3, 1942
October 98.1°F — Oct 5, 1947 12.0°F — Oct 30, 1917 5.75 in — Oct 11, 1973
November 84.9°F — Nov 4, 1909 -4.0°F — Nov 13, 1940 8.10 in — Nov 16, 1928
December 80.1°F — Dec 24, 1955 -18.0°F — Dec 22, 1989 2.82 in — Dec 4, 1944

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in El Dorado.