All-time weather records — Great Bend, KS

Record high
111.0°F
June 27, 1980
Record low
-20.9°F
December 22, 1989
Wettest day
6.40 in
June 15, 1981

Climate change signal in Great Bend

13.7%

of Great Bend's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (50 of 366 records since 2015).

23%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (84 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 #
1900s
·
·
1910s
·
·
1920s
·
·
1930s
·
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1940s
1
5
1950s
76
71
1960s
44
49
1970s
40
35
1980s
75
46
1990s
31
35
2000s
28
30
2010s
39
52
2020s
32
43

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 1949, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1909-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 79.0°F — Jan 10, 1990 -17.0°F — Jan 31, 1979 1.76 in — Jan 16, 2017
February 88.0°F — Feb 19, 2016 -18.9°F — Feb 1, 1951 1.85 in — Feb 18, 1926
March 95.0°F — Mar 26, 2026 -7.1°F — Mar 4, 2019 2.32 in — Mar 23, 1987
April 100.9°F — Apr 23, 1989 14.0°F — Apr 12, 1997 3.14 in — Apr 30, 1985
May 102.0°F — May 26, 1964 19.0°F — May 30, 2025 3.93 in — May 24, 2007
June 111.0°F — Jun 27, 1980 39.0°F — Jun 4, 1954 6.40 in — Jun 15, 1981
July 111.0°F — Jul 11, 1954 45.0°F — Jul 8, 1952 3.67 in — Jul 29, 1985
August 109.9°F — Aug 3, 1964 45.0°F — Aug 20, 1950 5.42 in — Aug 24, 1969
September 106.0°F — Sep 17, 1953 28.9°F — Sep 22, 1995 3.55 in — Sep 18, 2001
October 98.1°F — Oct 2, 1963 10.0°F — Oct 29, 2019 4.78 in — Oct 17, 1968
November 90.0°F — Nov 8, 2006 -4.0°F — Nov 28, 1952 2.26 in — Nov 17, 1971
December 79.0°F — Dec 3, 2021 -20.9°F — Dec 22, 1989 2.45 in — Dec 16, 1984

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Great Bend.