All-time weather records — Quartzsite, AZ

Record high
124.0°F
July 11, 1934
Record low
3.0°F
February 23, 1924
Wettest day
3.00 in
September 5, 1939

Climate change signal in Quartzsite

14.2%

of Quartzsite's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (52 of 366 records since 2015).

2.2%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (8 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
11
15
1910s
17
83
1920s
33
98
1930s
123
104
1940s
4
7
1950s
1
·
1960s
18
25
1970s
22
15
1980s
11
·
1990s
35
4
2000s
32
6
2010s
35
7
2020s
24
2

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 1909, the latest in 2022. Period of observation: 1908-2022.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 87.1°F — Jan 20, 1971 9.0°F — Jan 7, 1913 2.02 in — Jan 21, 2010
February 99.0°F — Feb 22, 1929 3.0°F — Feb 23, 1924 1.90 in — Feb 21, 1920
March 100.0°F — Mar 21, 2004 24.1°F — Mar 3, 1971 1.20 in — Mar 7, 1994
April 111.0°F — Apr 18, 1936 27.0°F — Apr 7, 1929 1.15 in — Apr 27, 1931
May 120.9°F — May 30, 1910 39.9°F — May 1, 1967 0.77 in — May 9, 2017
June 123.1°F — Jun 20, 2016 43.0°F — Jun 1, 1923 1.40 in — Jun 28, 1938
July 124.0°F — Jul 11, 1934 52.0°F — Jul 3, 1912 1.20 in — Jul 13, 1912
August 124.0°F — Aug 12, 1933 53.1°F — Aug 26, 1970 2.70 in — Aug 11, 1929
September 120.0°F — Sep 5, 2020 42.1°F — Sep 24, 1923 3.00 in — Sep 5, 1939
October 108.0°F — Oct 1, 1934 30.0°F — Oct 30, 2019 1.75 in — Oct 9, 1932
November 97.0°F — Nov 2, 2020 17.1°F — Nov 29, 1911 1.30 in — Nov 10, 1969
December 84.0°F — Dec 1, 2021 16.0°F — Dec 11, 1933 1.38 in — Dec 22, 1997

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