Climate & Weather Statistics

Hurricane Allen (1980) remains the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record with peak sustained winds of 190 mph, though i...

Hurricane Patricia, which struck the eastern Pacific in 2015, set the global record with peak sustained winds of 345 km/...

Sukayu Onsen, a hot-spring resort high in Japan's Hakkoda Mountains, is the snowiest inhabited place on Earth, buried un...

Yuma, Arizona, leads the world with about 4,015 hours of sunshine a year, meaning the sun shines during more than 90% of...

These towns receive almost no rain at all: most average under 2.5 mm per year, thousands of times less than the world's...

Mawsynram, India, tops the list at about 11,872 mm of rain a year, roughly ten metres of water and more than fifteen tim...

Antarctica is in a class of its own, with a record low of -89.2C at Vostok Station in 1983, nearly 21 degrees colder tha...

North America holds the global heat record at 56.7C, measured at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California, in 1913, a f...