All-time weather records — St. Matthews, SC

Record high
108.0°F
August 10, 2007
Record low
1.9°F
January 21, 1985
Wettest day
9.99 in
October 10, 1990

Climate change signal in St. Matthews

10.1%

of St. Matthews's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (37 of 366 records since 2015).

5.2%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (19 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
·
·
1920s
·
·
1940s
·
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1950s
64
31
1960s
25
62
1970s
31
79
1980s
49
97
1990s
68
17
2000s
84
45
2010s
41
25
2020s
4
10

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 1953, the latest in 2025. Period of observation: 1919-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 84.0°F — Jan 29, 2002 1.9°F — Jan 21, 1985 2.95 in — Jan 7, 1995
February 86.0°F — Feb 1, 2002 9.0°F — Feb 12, 1973 2.84 in — Feb 5, 1985
March 90.0°F — Mar 21, 2017 6.1°F — Mar 3, 1980 3.20 in — Mar 13, 1980
April 97.0°F — Apr 20, 2002 27.0°F — Apr 20, 1983 3.52 in — Apr 24, 2017
May 102.0°F — May 28, 2019 35.1°F — May 2, 1963 3.61 in — May 3, 1964
June 105.1°F — Jun 28, 1954 46.9°F — Jun 5, 1988 3.66 in — Jun 6, 1995
July 105.1°F — Jul 8, 1954 54.0°F — Jul 9, 1983 8.07 in — Jul 21, 2014
August 108.0°F — Aug 10, 2007 50.0°F — Aug 20, 2013 5.95 in — Aug 29, 1964
September 102.0°F — Sep 7, 1954 39.9°F — Sep 30, 1967 8.82 in — Sep 7, 1948
October 99.0°F — Oct 6, 1954 27.0°F — Oct 29, 1976 9.99 in — Oct 10, 1990
November 91.0°F — Nov 2, 1961 18.0°F — Nov 24, 1970 4.82 in — Nov 6, 2024
December 90.0°F — Dec 14, 2007 6.1°F — Dec 13, 1962 3.10 in — Dec 23, 2019

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