Weather Records in Hungary
Weather Records in Hungary
Lowest night-time temperature: -35°C (16 February 1940, Gömölytapolca)
Highest daytime temperature: 41.3°C (5 July 1950, Pécs)
Highest absolute annual temperature variation: 73.8C (Baja)
Highest daytime low: 27.1 °C (20 July 1946, Szeged)
Longest period without sunshine: 35 days (31 October to 4 December 1978, Szeged)
Greatest abrupt temperature rise over a space of 18 hours: 26.7°C (3 February 1963, Békéscsaba)
Lowest daytime maximum: -20°C (10 February, 1929, Nyíregyháza).
The mildest winter was that of 1950/51 (the mean temperature of the winter months varied around +3.1 degrees). The coldest one was that of 1891/92, during which the mean temperature of the winter months varied around -5.1 degrees.
The warmest spring was in 1934, with the average temperature of the spring months varying around 13 degrees, while the coldest one (with a temperature of 8.2 degrees) was in 1987.
The summer of 1946 was the hottest, during which the mean temperature of the summer months was 22.5 degrees, while the coolest summer (with a mean temperature of 18.2 degrees) was that of 1978.
The warmest and most balmy autumn was recorded in 1926, during which the autumn mean temperature varied around 13.2 degrees, while the coldest autumn was in 1912 (the mean temperature in the three autumn months was just 7.4 degrees).
The winter with the highest precipitation was that of 1946/47, and the winter precipitation, on the basis of the measurements of fifteen meteorological stations, varied around 141 mm, while the driest winter proved to be that of 1847, during which the land received only some 17 mm of precipitation over a period of three months.
The wettest summer (during which 304 mm of rain fell on average throughout the country during the entire summer) was recorded in 1882, while the summer of 1947 proved to be the driest one (with around 81 mm of precipitation). Unpredictable weather is a characteristic feature of the Carpathian Basin’s climate. The temporal variation of precipitation is quite irregular, with dry and droughty periods occurring frequently, though considerably rainy years or periods are not uncommon either. It is the weather of primarily the winter months which is variable, temperatures are unpredictable, and relatively mild and inclement periods alternate frequently with one another.
