All-time weather records — Gulf Shores, AL

Record high
104.0°F
August 5, 1947
Record low
3.0°F
January 22, 1985
Wettest day
17.46 in
September 28, 1917

Climate change signal in Gulf Shores

4.6%

of Gulf Shores's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (17 of 366 records since 2015).

0.8%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (3 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
·
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1920s
8
16
1930s
54
36
1940s
75
48
1950s
72
35
1960s
17
70
1970s
33
33
1980s
29
50
1990s
20
53
2000s
32
16
2010s
23
9
2020s
3
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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 1924, the latest in 2020. Period of observation: 1912-2020.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 82.9°F — Jan 30, 1957 3.0°F — Jan 22, 1985 11.12 in — Jan 25, 1978
February 84.9°F — Feb 27, 1944 10.0°F — Feb 3, 1951 8.27 in — Feb 19, 1961
March 89.1°F — Mar 23, 1939 18.0°F — Mar 4, 1943 6.30 in — Mar 10, 1913
April 93.9°F — Apr 23, 1987 27.0°F — Apr 13, 1940 14.39 in — Apr 1, 2005
May 99.0°F — May 27, 1953 39.9°F — May 2, 1925 5.21 in — May 1, 2005
June 102.9°F — Jun 5, 2011 48.9°F — Jun 1, 1984 8.72 in — Jun 9, 1989
July 102.0°F — Jul 1, 1952 55.0°F — Jul 16, 1967 12.50 in — Jul 5, 1916
August 104.0°F — Aug 5, 1947 57.0°F — Aug 29, 1968 7.91 in — Aug 31, 2017
September 102.0°F — Sep 9, 1954 37.0°F — Sep 30, 1967 17.46 in — Sep 28, 1917
October 97.0°F — Oct 6, 1937 30.0°F — Oct 24, 1937 8.45 in — Oct 17, 1923
November 89.1°F — Nov 3, 1935 19.0°F — Nov 16, 1940 8.10 in — Nov 10, 1975
December 82.9°F — Dec 6, 1951 8.1°F — Dec 13, 1962 8.30 in — Dec 6, 1953

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Gulf Shores.