All-time weather records — Hartwell, GA

Record high
109.0°F
July 29, 1952
Record low
-5.1°F
January 21, 1985
Wettest day
7.20 in
August 16, 1994

Climate change signal in Hartwell

4.9%

of Hartwell's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (18 of 366 records since 2015).

1.6%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (6 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
4
5
1910s
33
51
1920s
68
48
1930s
41
49
1940s
31
53
1950s
81
35
1960s
36
40
1970s
30
33
1980s
16
17
1990s
4
16
2000s
2
8
2010s
8
7
2020s
12
4

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 1908, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1908-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 80.1°F — Jan 30, 1975 -5.1°F — Jan 21, 1985 4.39 in — Jan 18, 1943
February 82.0°F — Feb 4, 1927 3.9°F — Feb 17, 1958 3.61 in — Feb 7, 2020
March 91.0°F — Mar 10, 1974 10.0°F — Mar 4, 1943 5.00 in — Mar 15, 1990
April 97.0°F — Apr 20, 2000 25.0°F — Apr 7, 1950 3.63 in — Apr 13, 1979
May 102.0°F — May 27, 1926 34.0°F — May 4, 1940 2.73 in — May 20, 2020
June 106.0°F — Jun 27, 1954 45.0°F — Jun 1, 1972 5.61 in — Jun 4, 1967
July 109.0°F — Jul 29, 1952 51.1°F — Jul 13, 1918 6.00 in — Jul 19, 1964
August 108.0°F — Aug 22, 1983 53.1°F — Aug 23, 1930 7.20 in — Aug 16, 1994
September 109.0°F — Sep 4, 1925 39.0°F — Sep 30, 1967 6.50 in — Sep 8, 2014
October 100.0°F — Oct 5, 1954 26.1°F — Oct 31, 1954 4.87 in — Oct 4, 2015
November 86.0°F — Nov 1, 1950 7.0°F — Nov 25, 1950 5.15 in — Nov 11, 2009
December 82.0°F — Dec 2, 1970 3.0°F — Dec 25, 1983 4.53 in — Dec 16, 1992

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